Today, our second stop is Papua New Guinea, the third-largest island country in the world. It’s even bigger than Sweden.

Papua New Guinea neighbours Indonesia on the island of New Guinea and Queen Elizabeth II the Head of State. You can probably guess which country colonised Papua New Guinea in the past.

Papua New Guinea’s territory even includes a “New Britain” island, and the capital city is called Port Moresby named after a British Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Fairfax Moresby.

Papua New Guinea is known for its penis-gourds and vibrant sing-sing festivals. One thing you absolutely wouldn’t expect about Papua New Guinea though is that its pigs sometimes have an extremely close relationship to humans. In fact, this relationship is so close that in certain tribes, women sometimes breastfeed suckling pigs. I’m not making this up. Having said that, is a pig drinking human milk really any weirder than a human drinking goat’s milk?

Right, after that bizarre turn of events and writing two posts this evening, I think I’ve earned myself a cold, refreshing, lactose-free SP Lager.

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