Papua New Guinea Travel & Tours - International Expeditions

• We allow you two days to take in the great Mount Hagen Show “sing-sing,” with ample opportunity to see and photograph the ongoing events, and to meet some of the participants. Your photographs are guaranteed to be memorable.

• In the highlands, we take you on guided walks and on visits to remote villages where you have a chance to learn about unusual ways of life in easy fashion.

• Our Sepik River voyage is on the highly comfortable 9-cabin Sepik Spirit. She is specially outfitted to travel through these waterways. There is full air-conditioning and all the amenities necessary to enjoying the journey in comfort.

• Your guides will be thoroughly versed in the history, culture and wildlife of Papua New Guinea. An International Expeditions expedition leader will accompany the journey.

There are few if any human spectacles in the world that can match the gathering of tribes at Papua New Guinea’s highland “sing-sings.” Thousands of participants gather from far and wide to compete in dancing, singing, drumming and in decorating their bodies in the most extraordinary ways imaginable.

The “Mount Hagen Show” is among the greatest of all these events, and our program is designed to allow you two days at the festival to take in the spectacle and to photograph it to your heart’s content. Your memories and pictures are bound to be nothing less than astonishing.

There is so much to see in addition to the “Show.” A highlight will be a three-night voyage along the Sepik River aboard the superb 9-cabin Sepik Spirit. We visit villages where people still live in traditional ways and practice traditional forms of worship, and as we learn about their cultures it’s easy to develop a sense of wonder at the diversity of life.

Both the Sepik and the highlands are surrounded by primary rainforest and offer outstanding bird watching and a chance to see some unusual plant species. In the highlands you walk through rainforests in search of exquisite, rare birds of paradise and orchids. You’ll also meet the “wigmen” and other people of this remote area, whose first contact with the outside world wasn’t until the 1930s.

We’ll also have time along the Bismarck Sea, where the villages have entirely different traditions, and where you’ll have a chance to snorkel (or dive, if you’re certified) on some of the finest coral reefs anywhere.

For good measure, we include a visit to Cairns, Australia, where the last day of the journey includes a visit to the Atherton Tablelands and a good chance of seeing duck-billed platypus in the wild!

This is a unique journey to some of the most interesting spots on Earth.