Especially during the dry season, supplies may be low in the village and store food is expensive. Presents of tinned fish or corned beef, rice, coffee, sugar, powdered milk and cigarettes are always appreciated by your host and his family. Link to our recipe for patrol curry in RimJournal. There are rainwater cisterns on the Sepik, but there won't always be extra water to give away to tourists. Get water from the middle of the river and upstream from a village and purify it with tablets or bring enough drinking water with you from Wewak.
All wash water comes from the river.
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