Goroka Highlands Festival
All prices are in US Dollars.
SHORT GOROKA SHOW PACKAGES
18 - 22 September 2025 - from $1270. Flights included
Thursday: fly in from Port Moresby departing on 08:25 flight
Friday: full-day Asaro Mudmen village visit and Asaro Sing-Sing (the best Asaro visit around) and Chimbu Masalai Skeleton Men
Saturday: VIP passes for Goroka Show
Sunday: VIP Passes for the Goroka Show
Monday: Fly back to Port Moresby landing at 10:35
Option 1: Using single room accommodation with shared toilet and shower facilities, right next to the showgrounds $1270, no meals included. PDF Itinerary here, Interactive itinerary here.
Option 2: Using our favourite guesthouse, Klehrt Cove, with ensuite bathrooms and on-site dining, based on two sharing $1450 with breakfasts and dinners included, $1890 single occupancy. Interactive itinerary here. FULL FOR 2025, email for 2026 info.
Bird of Paradise Hotel accommodation
Four nights' accommodation, includes airport transfers, meals.
Interactive tinerary and images here
Double or Twin Room: Two sharing $2200 per person. Single occupancy: $3200
King Premier Suite Two sharing $2350 per person. Single occupancy: $3500
All the above include domestic flights, meals as listed, transfers, Asaro day trip, show passes.
Excludes tips, items of a personal nature, international flights, visas.
Add on a six-night Sepik River guided tour after the festival, 23-29 September 2025, $2375 per person. Interactive itinerary here.
18 - 22 September 2025 - from $1270. Flights included
Thursday: fly in from Port Moresby departing on 08:25 flight
Friday: full-day Asaro Mudmen village visit and Asaro Sing-Sing (the best Asaro visit around) and Chimbu Masalai Skeleton Men
Saturday: VIP passes for Goroka Show
Sunday: VIP Passes for the Goroka Show
Monday: Fly back to Port Moresby landing at 10:35
Option 1: Using single room accommodation with shared toilet and shower facilities, right next to the showgrounds $1270, no meals included. PDF Itinerary here, Interactive itinerary here.
Option 2: Using our favourite guesthouse, Klehrt Cove, with ensuite bathrooms and on-site dining, based on two sharing $1450 with breakfasts and dinners included, $1890 single occupancy. Interactive itinerary here. FULL FOR 2025, email for 2026 info.
Bird of Paradise Hotel accommodation
Four nights' accommodation, includes airport transfers, meals.
Interactive tinerary and images here
Double or Twin Room: Two sharing $2200 per person. Single occupancy: $3200
King Premier Suite Two sharing $2350 per person. Single occupancy: $3500
All the above include domestic flights, meals as listed, transfers, Asaro day trip, show passes.
Excludes tips, items of a personal nature, international flights, visas.
Add on a six-night Sepik River guided tour after the festival, 23-29 September 2025, $2375 per person. Interactive itinerary here.
LONGER TOURS WITH THE GOROKA FESTIVAL
HIGHLAND TRIBES ESCORTED MT HAGEN, ASARO, AND GOROKA TOUR
8 nights 15 - 23 September 2025
$3420 - including flights, single supplement $420. Includes the Goroka Festival.
FULL FOR 2025, email for 2026 info
Escorted by Best of PNG's founder, Christopher Bartlett, we meet in Port Moresby the day before before flying to Mount Hagen to meet the Huli Wigmen, the Masalai Skeleton men, anf the Hagen warriors. We have a morning birding walk, and an afternoon birdwatching from the comfort of a lodge, looking for Birds of Paradise and other endemic species. We then travel through the provinces of Jiwaka and Chumbu, stopping to see a Chimbu courtship ceremony, en route to Goroka. You will love our unique Asaro Mudmen Sing-Sing on the Friday, and then it's time for the Goroka two-day festival with four nights' accommodation in a comfortable guest house close to the show grounds. We end with anither cultural day in the Eastern Highlands, visiting two more trines for private sing-sings, and spent the last night at the Asaro Mudmen village in a rustic lodge. Includes meals except lunches in Goroka, internal flights, show entry, activities, transfers, Sing Sings, guiding. Full itinerary here.
Add on a six-night Sepik River guided tour after the festival, 23-29 September 2025, $2375 per person. Full itinerary here
HIGHLAND TRIBES ESCORTED MT HAGEN, ASARO, AND GOROKA TOUR
8 nights 15 - 23 September 2025
$3420 - including flights, single supplement $420. Includes the Goroka Festival.
FULL FOR 2025, email for 2026 info
Escorted by Best of PNG's founder, Christopher Bartlett, we meet in Port Moresby the day before before flying to Mount Hagen to meet the Huli Wigmen, the Masalai Skeleton men, anf the Hagen warriors. We have a morning birding walk, and an afternoon birdwatching from the comfort of a lodge, looking for Birds of Paradise and other endemic species. We then travel through the provinces of Jiwaka and Chumbu, stopping to see a Chimbu courtship ceremony, en route to Goroka. You will love our unique Asaro Mudmen Sing-Sing on the Friday, and then it's time for the Goroka two-day festival with four nights' accommodation in a comfortable guest house close to the show grounds. We end with anither cultural day in the Eastern Highlands, visiting two more trines for private sing-sings, and spent the last night at the Asaro Mudmen village in a rustic lodge. Includes meals except lunches in Goroka, internal flights, show entry, activities, transfers, Sing Sings, guiding. Full itinerary here.
Add on a six-night Sepik River guided tour after the festival, 23-29 September 2025, $2375 per person. Full itinerary here