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After so long
Come and bound your memories up in the magic of Irian Jaya. Baliem Valley Resort (BVR) is located at 1900 M in the Jaya Wijaya highlands and offers a bird's eye view of paradise, plus a touch of 3-star luxury resort of the beaten path situated in an area of 1600 HA. The resort has a panorama of the Jaya Wijaya Mountains in the distance. Baliem Valley Resort takes its name from the Baliem Valley. It is a luxuries 15 bungalows designed after the traditional "Honay" style, specious round houses with thatched roofs, modern bathrooms, picture windows and veranda with spectacular view overlooking the valley below. Baliem Valley Resort offers nature walk through orchid gardens, alpine forests and suspension bamboo bridges. Explore the culture the around 300 Dani farmers who live in the resort, walk along tiny village and friendly people. Men stride along the road wearing "Kotekas".
It is the largest and most intact natural history museum in existence, which comprises roughly one half of the island of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Although the province of Irian Jaya, with its capital Jayapura makes up 23% of Indonesia's total land surface, only about 2.8 million people of the total 200 million Indonesians live here (1997). It is the least populated, least visited and most remote province in Indonesia. Thousands of kilometers of jungle, mountains and villages, most of them isolated and primitive, stretch across the island from West Coast to the inland border between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Irian Jaya holds immense fascination for the naturalist. It is renowned for its colorful and exquisite species of the birds of paradise. There are a variety of tribes and over 500 local languages spoken. Some tribes have hardly any contact with the outside world.
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