Violent crime, including armed robbery, carjacking, home invasions and sexual assault, is common throughout the country, especially in urban areas such as Port Moresby, Lae and Mt Hagen. The settlement areas in these centers, are particularly dangerous.

Why is Papua New Guinea so dangerous?

Apart from street gangs, another reason why PNG has come across as being a dangerous place to foreigners is that the country is still by nature pretty much a tribal society that is home to thousands of different tribes speaking as many as 800 different languages and dialects, and tribal wars have remained rampant

Can you live in Papua New Guinea?

Papua New Guinea is home to tight-knit communities, where everyone knows everyone. If there is one thing you need to know about life in PNG, it is that people are friendly, relaxed and have a strong sense of community. Life in PNG really is what you make it.

Are there cannibals in the Amazon?

Many Amazonian, African, and Native American societies have traditionally practiced peaceful, cannibalistic mortuary rituals. Until Christian missionaries stamped it out in the 1960s, endocannibalism featured as one of the most important of the Wari funerary rituals.