Monpi Cocoa Exports

For eons it waited, untouched, unknown and unexplored. Then something changed. Man came to Papua New Guinea. Almost 50,000 years ago, groups of migrants from the Indonesian archipelago stepped ashore to encounter the most rugged country imaginable, dominated by enormous mountains, beautiful highlands and lowland jungles.

These people developed only as the land allowed them to. The almost impassable terrain meant the small groups of humans kept to themselves, isolated from each other and the outside world. The groups developed their own languages, their own cultures and their own traditions. They became the many tribes that gave Papua New Guinea one of the worlds most diverse and interesting cultural landscapes.

For thousands of years these tribes lived off the land, hunting, fishing and farming. Other villages were raided. Inter-tribal wars were fought. Life continued. The land watched on, unconcerned.