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The Goroka Festival is an annual event held in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and is one of the Meccas of travel photographers the world over.

In September of every year, tribes from all over PNG get together for this shindig and the dress code is a long way from formal. Up to 40,000 painted warriors from accross the country dance to the beat of the Kundu drums in an event that began in the 1950s as a social gathering and soon became a huge annual event.

As you can see, things get pretty colourful and photographers go wild - it actually looks pretty difficult to take a bad photo with all that colour flying around.

Frankly the Mud Men of Asaro have scared the shit out of me ever since I was a child - I still get the occasionaly nightmare. Even so, this is one of the events I am definitely going to make it to during my lifetime.

When: September
Where: Goroka, Papua New Guinea
How: Papua Trekking

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