All Souls Day at the All Souls Parish (Lae) – one big Sing Sing

Not even photo’s can do justice to this event – but they do better than me prattling on. Briefly -: a kinda high-anglican service with brief traditional dancing inserts, followed by more food than I’ve seen so far in PNG, followed by 7 different ‘zones’ of the church each separately presenting a different set of full traditional dances n ‘presents’ to the parish - - this is with the full get-up. All up this started at 7:45am (church) and finished on and around 4:30pm. Then I went to the yacht club and had a few beers…

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