If you were to imagine a place of sand beaches with bath-warm water, tall icy mountains, endless jungle and jagged ridges that run to the horizon, rugged trails, and vast flooded plains, you have the island of Papua-New Guinea.  Add in remote villages where you can be the first outsider to visit and couple this with people with hearts of gold...now you have the nation of Papua-New Guinea.  This is a truly wild place where few people venture but it's one of the most amazing travel destinations imaginable.  So if you want to go to places where people ask if you're an anthropologist because they're the only people who have ever bothered to visit...read on!