A British 'danger tourist' on a mission to visit every country has become the first tourist to visit a number of indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea.
Daniel Pinto, 27, is 138 countries into visiting all 195 of them and spent three weeks in the Pacific island country last month.
He researched all the tribes in the country before arriving and once he landed he met up with locals who showed him where to go.
During his time in Papua New Guinea, Daniel lived with 10 different tribes - including the skeleton tribe, the crocodile people and the spirit birds.
He took part in different ceremonies, went to a wedding, went hunting, and would sleep in local homes and guest houses.
Daniel Pinto, 27, is 138 countries into visiting all 195 of them and spent three weeks in the Pacific island country last month.
He researched all the tribes in the country before arriving and once he landed he met up with locals who showed him where to go.
During his time in Papua New Guinea, Daniel lived with 10 different tribes - including the skeleton tribe, the crocodile people and the spirit birds.
He took part in different ceremonies, went to a wedding, went hunting, and would sleep in local homes and guest houses.
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00:00Well done
00:01So I've just joined the Narko tribe in the highlands in Chimbu province, Papua New Guinea
00:06And we're going to get some betel nut to get our tongue orange just like he's
00:10This is what the village looks like here in the highlands, very beautiful
00:13A lot of nature and good people
00:15You sell betel nut here?
00:16Yeah
00:17Amazing
00:22I need mustard and a lime
00:31So this is what it looks like once your mouth got orange
00:39Show me your tongue
00:41Wow, yours is very red
00:45So some back story about the skeleton tribe
00:47The reason why they paint themselves like this is because back in the day the ancestors about 400-500 years ago
00:52They were in a cave and they were said to be a monster that comes out and attacks people
00:57And when they were in the cave they saw some bones in the floor
00:59So what they did to blend in was they painted themselves like skeletons and they hid and they survived the night
01:04And that's why nowadays to celebrate they paint themselves like the ancestors
01:09This tribe went from eating humans to crocodiles not too long ago
01:13Meet the crocodile people of Papua New Guinea
01:15While travelling in this remote part of the country I was blessed with a chance to live with them for two days
01:19And this is everything I learned
01:20The reason why they were given this name is because of their crocodile like scars all over their body
01:24This tradition is painful and super expensive hence why not everyone has it
01:27Done in the early teen years in a spirit house just like this one
01:30Spirit houses are very big in this tribe's culture and it's only for men
01:33They will cook, sleep and socialise here
01:35And talking about cooking, they love to eat crocodiles
01:37The colonisers actually banned cannibalism back in the 1930s
01:40Now making the diet of these people purely crocodile based
01:43Adding at the trini but here's the skull from a recent catch
01:45The crocodile people are actually made up of many tribes that live along the river
01:48This one being the Latmor
01:50There's also the Chamburi and the Tambamun just like these ones
01:52Who decided to celebrate by performing a sing sing on my arrival to their village
01:57I am a crocodile
02:02While Papua New Guinea is known for cannibalism
02:04It's important to know that it just doesn't happen anymore
02:06And the people are very friendly
02:08And my goal from these videos is to hopefully put PNG on your radar
02:11Because it's truly an incredible country
02:17I'm about to head into the jungle with the insect hunters here in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
02:21And if you hear closely those are the locusts
02:23They are scared because they know they're coming for them to eat
02:26Meet the Bruglogamu people from the province of Chimbu
02:29This tribe is famous for painting their body in black and white paint
02:32And going into the forest and finding bugs
02:34Which are then cooked and eaten straight off the man's head
02:36That's a locust
02:39This tribe hunts insects in the jungle and they cook it on their head
02:42That's right, he basically carries an oven on his head while they go hunting for food in the jungle
02:46They do this so they can always be on the move and not stop for too long
02:49You know me, you know I love trying strange things
02:51So let's eat some bugs
02:52It looks like
02:54A chestnut
02:56Let's give it a try
02:58Okay so this is, what is this?
03:00Cider
03:04It tastes like a chestnut from a Christmas market
03:06Is that a grasshopper?
03:10Oh poor thing
03:12That's brutal