Mabul

We stumble back into Mabul where we began the journey, feeling like shell shocked soldiers returning home from war.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

Finally, armed with just about all the information needed for a Ph.D. on motorized canoes in Papua, we pick up our travel permits from the local police chief, lower ourselves into the dugout canoe and motor ten hours down the river, mainly in pouring rain, to the improbably even smaller village of Mabul.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

We stumble back into Mabul where we began the journey, feeling like shell shocked soldiers returning home from war.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

We stumble back into Mabul where we began the journey, feeling like shell shocked soldiers returning home from war.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

Finally, armed with just about all the information needed for a Ph.D. on motorized canoes in Papua, we pick up our travel permits from the local police chief, lower ourselves into the dugout canoe and motor ten hours down the river, mainly in pouring rain, to the improbably even smaller village of Mabul.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

The trip included a village on Mabul populated by several hundred Bajau fishermen, an ethnic group that originally came from the southern Philippines.

An Oil Rig's Second, Scuba-Diving Life 2010

D. on motorized canoes in Papua, we pick up our travel permits from the local police chief, lower ourselves into the dugout canoe and motor ten hours down the river, mainly in pouring rain, to the improbably even smaller village of Mabul.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

We stumble back into Mabul where we began the journey, feeling like shell shocked soldiers returning home from war.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010

Sipadan Island is much more rewarding than two other popular dive sites of Mabul and Kapalai Islands, where the diving is adjacent to the resort accommodations.

An Oil Rig's Second, Scuba-Diving Life 2010

Finally, armed with just about all the information needed for a Ph.D. on motorized canoes in Papua, we pick up our travel permits from the local police chief, lower ourselves into the dugout canoe and motor ten hours down the river, mainly in pouring rain, to the improbably even smaller village of Mabul.

Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals Danna Harman 2010