SEPIK CROCODILE FESTIVAL
3rd to 9th August 2026
Sepik Crocodile Festival 3 to 9 August, 2026 - $2490 USD including return domestic flights
Start with a flight from Port Moresby to the Sepik and a night in Wewak at the very comfortable In Wewak Boutique Hotel. The next day, with your local guide, you will be driven across the Hunstein range to the mighty Sepik to board your motorised dugout canoe at Pagwi and cruise upstream to Wagu Lagoon, passing villages along the way. Your accommodation for three nights is in Wagu guesthouse, in the Upper Sepik, on foam mattresses with clean linen and mosquito nets. The guesthouse has a generator for battery charging and light at night. On the 5th we will go and look for the Lesser Bird of Paradise on a dawn trip, and then visit the villages of Meno and Tongijamb to see their spirit houses and arts. On 6th, we will attend the Sepik Crocodile Festival, and photograph the varied and fascinating tribal groups from the region. Wagu Lagoon is an excellent place for bird photography too. On the 7th, we will go into to the Middle Sepik to visit the villages of Palimbei and Kanganamun, the most well-known of the Iatmul language group tribes, who practice the art of extreme scarification, known as the Crocodilemen, where we will spend the night. We will return to Pagwi around lunchtime on the 8th, and then return to Wewak to overnight at In Wewak Boutique Hotel.
There is a single room supplement for the two nights in Wewak of $170
Itinerary here.
Start with a flight from Port Moresby to the Sepik and a night in Wewak at the very comfortable In Wewak Boutique Hotel. The next day, with your local guide, you will be driven across the Hunstein range to the mighty Sepik to board your motorised dugout canoe at Pagwi and cruise upstream to Wagu Lagoon, passing villages along the way. Your accommodation for three nights is in Wagu guesthouse, in the Upper Sepik, on foam mattresses with clean linen and mosquito nets. The guesthouse has a generator for battery charging and light at night. On the 5th we will go and look for the Lesser Bird of Paradise on a dawn trip, and then visit the villages of Meno and Tongijamb to see their spirit houses and arts. On 6th, we will attend the Sepik Crocodile Festival, and photograph the varied and fascinating tribal groups from the region. Wagu Lagoon is an excellent place for bird photography too. On the 7th, we will go into to the Middle Sepik to visit the villages of Palimbei and Kanganamun, the most well-known of the Iatmul language group tribes, who practice the art of extreme scarification, known as the Crocodilemen, where we will spend the night. We will return to Pagwi around lunchtime on the 8th, and then return to Wewak to overnight at In Wewak Boutique Hotel.
There is a single room supplement for the two nights in Wewak of $170
Itinerary here.
