HIGHLANDS TRIBES TOUR
7 nights - $3420 USD
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.
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.
8 nights 15 - 23 September 2025
$3420 - including flights, single supplement $420. Includes the Goroka Festival.
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.