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ESCORTED TOURS 2024
Each year we offer a calendar of fixed-departure soft adventure small group tours which are pivoted around the annual culture festivals. Each tour includes multiple village visits and at least one local festival or sing-sing. Although you might normally be an independent traveller, joining a small group of like-minded travellers (usually between 6 and 10 people) escorted by one of our experienced Papua New Guinean tour leaders is a safe, hassle-free way of experiencing exotic rural areas of PNG and allows you to concentrate on enjoying the experience and capturing some of the most stunning cultural photography available anywhere in the world. On our tours, accommodation in rural areas is at local hotels and village guest houses - not tourist lodges full of other tour groups - and all the touring activities, sing-sings and demonstrations of traditional practices (sago making, tattooing, courtship rituals to name a few) take place in real local villages not in tourist centers or fake "cultural villages". We encourage locals to present themselves in full traditional costume ("bilas") for our visits without any Western clothing or gaudy plastic decorations. This facilitates high quality cultural photography. Most of the sign-up escorted tours featured on this page are complete tour programs including internal air travel, accommodation, activities and most meals. For booking enquiries please email ecotourism.melanesia@gmail.com or send us a message.
If joining a group is definitely not your thing, you may wish to select an itinerary from our menu of independent touring packages. Our local guides will look after you at each destination as you proceed through your independent tour. Customised itineraries for travellers with special interests are also available.
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EM204 ANZAC DAY PILGRIMAGE TOUR 7 nights - APRIL 18-25
2024
Wewak, Lae, Rabaul, Port Moresby (dawn service at Bomana War Cemetery) with optional extensions to Alotau/Milne Bay and Popondetta/Kokoda/Buna |
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EM207A RABAUL MASK FESTIVAL TOUR 10 nights 08-18 JULY 2024
Core tour 10 nights Port Moresby, Rabaul (festival), Goroka, Madang |
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EM207C SEPIK CROCODILE FESTIVAL TOUR 14 nights 25 JULY - 08 AUGUST 2024
Core tour 8 nights Mt Hagen, Goroka, Madang
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EM208A SEPIK CROCODILE FESTIVAL & MT HAGEN SHOW TOUR Pre-tour extension 5 nights Sepik Crocodile Festival |
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EM208W MT HAGEN SHOW WEEKENDER TOUR 5 nights - 14-19 AUGUST 2024 5 nights Mt Hagen |
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EM208R MT HAGEN SHOW ROAD TOUR 10 nights 14-24 AUGUST 2024 Core tour 10 nights Mt Hagen (festival), Goroka, Madang |
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EM209W GOROKA SHOW WEEKENDER TOUR 5 nights 11-16 SEPTEMBER 2024 2 nights Mt Hagen, 3 nights Goroka |
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EM209R GOROKA SHOW ROAD TOUR 8 nights 11-19 SEPTEMBER 2024 Core tour 8 nights Mt Hagen (festival), Goroka, Madangr |
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EM209B GOROKA SHOW & KALAM CULTURE FESTIVAL TOUR SEPTEMBER 2024 SORRY TOUR WITHDRAWN / CANCELLED FOR 2024 DUE TO SHORTAGE OF HOTEL ROOMS IN GOROKA. BOOK NOW FOR 2025 Mt Hagen, Goroka (festival), Simbai (festival), Port Moresby (plus optional 3 nights extension to Wewak/Sepik River OR Rabaul OR Alotau) Fully escorted small group soft adventure tour, max group size 8 pax Tour leader: Mrs Jane Toleitau (Ecotourism Melanesia senior guide) |
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EM65 KALAM CULTURE FESTIVAL ONLY 3 nights - SEPTEMBER 2024
4 DAYS 3 NIGHTS fly from Goroka to Simbai on the Monday and return to Mt Hagen on the Thursday - please enquire for details |
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EM210R MOROBE SHOW TOUR 8 nights - OCTOBER 2024 (itinerary not yet updated for 2024) 3 nights Lae with escorted excursions to the Morobe Show + Goroka and Madang and Sepik River The Morobe Show is the last remaining true agricultural show in PNG. Held every October for over 50 years, it is a spectacle not to be missed! The first day (Saturday) is agricultural and industrial displays and demonstrations plus sideshow alley. The Sunday is the Morobe Sing-sing a full day extravaganza of cultural dancing and drama groups from all over Papua New Guinea. Tour leader: Mr Wing Wima (Ecotourism Melanesia senior guide) |
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EM211A MILNE BAY CANOE FESTIVAL TOUR - NOVEMBER 2024 (itinerary not yet updated for 2024) Goroka, Madang, Alotau (festival), Port Moresby with possible extension to Trobriand Islands The Milne Bay Canoe and Drum Festival celebrates the maritime traditions of Milne Bay Province, particularly the ocean-going outrigger sailing canoes used to travel between the islands for trade and people movement before the advent of motor boats and aircraft. The festival program includes war canoe races, canoe building, sing-sing dance performances, handicraft displays and markets, contemporary art and music. Tour leaders: Mr Wesley Momen and Mrs Jane Toleitau (Ecotourism Melanesia senior guides) |
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EM211B KARIMUI SHOW TOUR 12 nights - NOVEMBER 2024 (itinerary not yet updated for 2024) Goroka, Karimui (festival), Madang, Sepik River |