PAPUA NEW GUINEA: The Lost World Nobody Has Mapped | 4K Travel Documentary

Papua New Guinea sits on the world's second-largest island, where a spine of mountains over 2,500 kilometers long has fractured human communities into more than 840 separate languages — roughly 12 percent of every language spoken on Earth. Some are spoken by hundreds of thousands. Others survive in a single village, carried by a single generation of elders. When outsiders first entered the highlands in the 1930s, they expected empty mountains. Instead they found more than a million people farming valleys that had been cultivated for 10,000 years — one of the earliest independent inventions of agriculture anywhere on the planet. In this documentary, discover the Sepik River's spirit houses, the Huli Wigmen whose ceremonial wigs mirror the birds of paradise, the Kokoda Track where WWII was fought in impossible terrain, and the Bougainville civil war the world never reported. Take a breath. Stay a while. ▶ See More 4K Travel Documentaries: IRAN:    • IRAN: The Oldest Civilization Still Standi...   MALI:    • MALI: The Lost Kingdom You Were Never Supp...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @whereonearth4k   #PapuaNewGuinea #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #Melanesia #Languages