Papua New Guinea welcomed the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall on Saturday as the royal couple began their Diamond Jubilee tour in honour of the Queen's 60-year reign.
Charles and Camilla were draped with garlands of flowers and cheered by waiting crowds when they stepped from their plane after landing in the capital Port Moresby.
Known as the Queen's "pikinini" in the Pidgin English spoken in the Pacific nation, the heir to the throne looked relaxed after his long flight from the UK via Singapore with his wife.
The royal couple are representing the Queen in honour of her Jubilee
The royal couple are touring Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand over the next two weeks in celebration of the Queen's historic milestone.
The welcome for the royals was one of contrasts with Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, his wife Lynda Babao and other senior dignitaries waiting at one end of a long red carpet, while at the other were local schoolchildren in tribal dress performing a hiri dance - used to welcome traders to a village.
Jessie David, a bare-breasted 15-year-old wearing a pandanas leaf skirt, body paint and a headdress made of bird of paradise feathers, was given the honour of placing the orchid flowers on the shoulders of the royals.
The two were greeted by traditional dance and music
Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse nations on the globe whose remote regions are home to communities and tribes whose customs and traditions have remained unchanged for hundreds of years.
Many of its inhabitants live in the fertile highland valleys that were unknown to the outside world until the 1930s when contact with Europeans really began.
With its people speaking more than 800 languages, everyday communication is conducted through English and Tok Pisin - a form of Melanesian Pidgin English.
The couple will tour the 'fertile highland valleys' of the island
In Pidgin the Queen is known as 'Missis Kwin' and 'Mama belong big family'.
After the greetings on the red carpet the formal welcome began and the Prince stood to attention for the British and Papua New Guinea national anthems, played by a military band, as 2,000 well wishers on a nearby hill watched proceedings at Jacksons International Airport.
Lined up in front of the heir to the throne were two rows of soldiers from the Papua New Guinea defence force forming a guard of honour.