Lembah Baliem lies behind the line of mountains at Papua Island the east land of Indonesia. Lembah Baliem has an unique festival. It calls "Tari Perang". It's an every year tradition of the tribes from this beautiful valley. This festival perform around July until August. For the tribes, war believed as the symbol of the fertility and the welfare. The interesting one of this festival is the tribes still wearing their typical traditional clothes and their mainstay weapon. This event serve the typical game local. It calls pikon, tari etai and ebetai.

These are the tips to enjoy the Lembah Baliem festival.
- prepared your trip long time before. This is very important considering the location is very far from the capital city. Going with the group is suggested.
- approaching the festival,the frequency of the flight from Jayapura-Wamena will tight. Therefore, make sure to get flight ticket so that you can arrive on time.
- when you wacth the festival, don't forget to bring snack, sweater, hat and sunglasess also camera with zoom lens cause there will be so much unique moment to capture.

So..it could be one of places in your vacation list..

(source: Tamasya magazine, Dec '08)

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