00:00Well done
00:01So I've just joined the Narko tribe in the highlands in Chimbu province, Papua New Guinea
00:06And we're going to get some betel nut to get our tongue orange just like he's
00:10This is what the village looks like here in the highlands, very beautiful
00:13A lot of nature and good people
00:15You sell betel nut here?
00:16Yeah
00:17Amazing
00:22I need mustard and a lime
00:31So this is what it looks like once your mouth got orange
00:39Show me your tongue
00:41Wow, yours is very red
00:45So some back story about the skeleton tribe
00:47The reason why they paint themselves like this is because back in the day the ancestors about 400-500 years ago
00:52They were in a cave and they were said to be a monster that comes out and attacks people
00:57And when they were in the cave they saw some bones in the floor
00:59So what they did to blend in was they painted themselves like skeletons and they hid and they survived the night
01:04And that's why nowadays to celebrate they paint themselves like the ancestors
01:09This tribe went from eating humans to crocodiles not too long ago
01:13Meet the crocodile people of Papua New Guinea
01:15While travelling in this remote part of the country I was blessed with a chance to live with them for two days
01:19And this is everything I learned
01:20The reason why they were given this name is because of their crocodile like scars all over their body
01:24This tradition is painful and super expensive hence why not everyone has it
01:27Done in the early teen years in a spirit house just like this one
01:30Spirit houses are very big in this tribe's culture and it's only for men
01:33They will cook, sleep and socialise here
01:35And talking about cooking, they love to eat crocodiles
01:37The colonisers actually banned cannibalism back in the 1930s
01:40Now making the diet of these people purely crocodile based
01:43Adding at the trini but here's the skull from a recent catch
01:45The crocodile people are actually made up of many tribes that live along the river
01:48This one being the Latmor
01:50There's also the Chamburi and the Tambamun just like these ones
01:52Who decided to celebrate by performing a sing sing on my arrival to their village
01:57I am a crocodile
02:02While Papua New Guinea is known for cannibalism
02:04It's important to know that it just doesn't happen anymore
02:06And the people are very friendly
02:08And my goal from these videos is to hopefully put PNG on your radar
02:11Because it's truly an incredible country
02:17I'm about to head into the jungle with the insect hunters here in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
02:21And if you hear closely those are the locusts
02:23They are scared because they know they're coming for them to eat
02:26Meet the Bruglogamu people from the province of Chimbu
02:29This tribe is famous for painting their body in black and white paint
02:32And going into the forest and finding bugs
02:34Which are then cooked and eaten straight off the man's head
02:36That's a locust
02:39This tribe hunts insects in the jungle and they cook it on their head
02:42That's right, he basically carries an oven on his head while they go hunting for food in the jungle
02:46They do this so they can always be on the move and not stop for too long
02:49You know me, you know I love trying strange things
02:51So let's eat some bugs
02:52It looks like
02:54A chestnut
02:56Let's give it a try
02:58Okay so this is, what is this?
03:00Cider
03:04It tastes like a chestnut from a Christmas market
03:06Is that a grasshopper?
03:10Oh poor thing
03:12That's brutal
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