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Bucket List: Asia’s last frontier – Papua’s wilderness cities
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Women regularly carry up to 50kg of vegetables from their mountain villages to set up shop in Papua's Wamena town.
PHOTO: LI-ANN TAN AND JON SONG
Li-Ann Tan and Jon Song
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PAPUA, Indonesia – A friend once declared emphatically: “If you’ve been to only Bali, you’ve not been to Indonesia.”
Having spent three months in the stunning wilderness of Papua recently, we will readily add: “If you’ve not been to Papua, you’ve not seen the best of South-east Asia.”

