{"id":2522,"date":"2025-11-04T00:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voyagesenpapouasie.com\/our-history\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:18:05","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voyagesenpapouasie.com\/en\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box-title\">\r\n  <div class=\"section-subtitle\">The adventure of a passion transformed into your specialist agency<\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"section-title mb-0\"><div class=\"section-title mb-0\">Our History<br \/><strong>At the heart of the Papuan world<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voyages en Papouasie is above all the story of Philippe Gigliotti&#8217;s encounter with a land that was to change his life. In 1996, he discovered Papua New Guinea in the company of his lifelong friend Marc Dozier, and it was obvious: Papua was to be his adopted country! Not a destination to be added to a catalog, but a country to be made his own.  <\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;&#8221; I created this agency to give back to Papua some of the love it has given me. In 25 years, this country has built me up, welcomed me and offered me a humanity I never knew existed. Today, my desire is to share this happiness. 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