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MT HAGEN SHOW SIGHTSEEING TOUR 2006 -
14 days (escorted tour group, maximum 15 pax) |
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 »Overlooking Fairfax Habour |
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 »Freeway over-looking fairfax |
Day 1 TUE 15 AUG 2006 Arrive Port Moresby on Air Niugini flight PX393 from Singapore at 0525. Ecotourism Melanesia staff will meet you on arrival and transfer you to the Airways Hotel. |
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 »Goroka Vegetation |
Day 1 TUE 15 AUG PORT MORESBY / GOROKA At 07:00 am all members of the tour party will assemble for the first time at the Poolside Restaurant at the Airways Hotel for breakfast. While you are enjoying breakfast our staff will transport your luggage to the airport and check you in for Air Niugini flight PX160 to Goroka departing at 0905. At 8.15am you will be transferred from the Airways Hotel to the domestic terminal for boarding your flight, arriving in Goroka at 0955. |
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 »Goroka Village House |
From the airport, you will be transferred to the Bird of Paradise Hotel (or alternative) for a quick check-in before commencing a 45 minute scenic drive to Mehenave village in the Henganofi district. Here, the village people will provide lunch featuring traditional style cooking with all locally grown produce. After lunch, your tour party will be broken into small groups of 2-3 and each small group will be allocated to a village family. Your small group will spend the rest of the afternoon with your village host family. They will take you to their village house, show you their vegetable gardens and give you a candid window on their village lifestyle for a few hours. The village people speak very basic English. At 1700, depart Mehenave for Goroka and overnight Bird of Paradise Hotel. | |
 »Madang Coastline |
Day 2 WED 16 AUG GOROKA / MADANG After breakfast, board your bus for a drive down the scenic Ramu Highway from Goroka to Madang, arriving in time for lunch (not included). Check in at Madang Resort Hotel (or alternative). The afternoon is free for you to explore the waterfront market and handicraft stalls in this friendly tourist town, or enjoy the warm water of the hotel swimming pool. Overnight Madang Resort Hotel. (B) |
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 »Madang Coastline |
Day 3 THU 17 AUG MADANG Today you will be taken for a full day tour of Madang and district attractions, including (as time allows) a harbour cruise and visits to the the Balek Wildlife Sanctuary and Sulfur Caves where the Pierce Brosnan movie “Robinson Crusoe” was shot, the historical Alexishafen mission and the Ohu Butterfly Conservation area. Includes village style feast at Ohu and a swim under the beautiful 100m Dumeh waterfall near Ohu. Overnight Madang Resort Hotel. |
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Day 4 FRI 18 AUG MADANG / MT HAGEN After an early breakfast, transfer to Madang airport for your Airlink flight to Mt Hagen, departing 0700 (via Lae). On arrival in Mt Hagen at 0905 the group will be transferred to the Highlander Hotel (or alternative) for check-in before proceeding on a day tour of Mt Hagen including a drive through coffee and tea plantations of the fertile Waghi Valley, a turn through the magnificent orchid gardens at Haus Poroman, and highlands-style entertainment and demonstrations of traditional culture at the Paiya Cultural Village. A full scale highlands feast will be prepared and served at Paiya Cultural Village for lunch. Late in the afternoon, as Mt Hagen town fills and overflows with village people in town for the show, return to the hotel for a quiet sundowner before dinner (not included). Overnight Highlander Hotel. (B,L) |
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 »Guest Houses on Plateau |
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 » Unique Culture |
Day 7 Ambunti is the gateway to the Upper Sepik which is undeveloped and rarely visited by any outsiders at all, let alone tourists. For lunch today you can purchase fresh fruit, baked sago and barbequed fish from little markets in the villages you visit along the river upstream as far as Yessan. You will be enthusiastically welcomed in each village and have the opportunity to buy genuine cultural artifacts which villagers may present for sale. Day 8 TUE 22 AUG AMBUNTI |
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 » Along the Fly River |
Day 9 WED 23 AUG AMBUNTI / WEWAK |
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 » Kairiru Island |
(Pax exiting this tour after 10 days will fly directly to Port Moresby today on PX141 at 1300, overnighting in Port Moresby and flying out to Australia or Singapore on Day 10). |
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 » Beaches |
Day 10 THU 24 AUG WEWAK Full day of activities on Kairiru or Muschu island, including your choice of: jungle hiking, beachwalking, swimming, snorkelling, fishing, sightseeing (hot springs, historical cemetery, cave and blow hole, local villages) or relaxing in the shade of trees overhanging the beach. Village guides (members of the village youth) will be allocated to show you around. Light lunch is provided at the guesthouse whenever you feel hungry. At 5.00pm you will be transferred by boat back to Wewak, landing on the beach right in front of the hotel. Overnight Windjammer Beach Hotel. (B,L) |
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 » Tufi villages |
Day 11 FRI 25 AUG WEWAK / PORT MORESBY / TUFI Early morning transfer (0430) to Wewak airport to catch Air Niugini flight PX125 to Port Moresby departing 0610 and arriving 0815 (via Madang). On arrival, transfer with your luggage to the Airways Hotel for a lazy breakfast (included). At 1000 you will return to the airport and board a chartered Twin Otter flight to Tufi. Tufi is a geographical wonderland featuring Nordic-type fjords in a tropical environment. The scenery is stunning and the water in the fjords is crystal clear. The people of the Tufi area have a colourful and vibrant culture. On arrival, check in at Tufi Dive Resort and spend the rest of the day enjoying activities offered by the resort including snorkelling and kayaking in the fjords and hiking up to the top of nearby spurs for panoramic views. In the evening, a spectacular full scale Tufi sing sing will be performed under the stars at nearby Kofure Village. Overnight Tufi Dive Resort. (B,D) |
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 »Tufi Hot spots |
Day 12 SAT 26 AUG TUFI Full day village visit to the villages of Siu, Jebo and Orotoaba, about 30 minutes south of Tufi by boat. These villages are some of the most beautiful spots in Papua New Guinea and the people have considerable experience in hosting ecotourists in their villages. Your tour group may split into smaller groups to undertake activities of interest for the day including village cultural tour, bushwalk with birdwatching, beach walking and swimming, or paddling an outrigger canoe with your guide up a nearby fjord to a scenic waterfall. Tonight you have the option of overnighting in a village guest house at Siu, Jebo or Orotoaba, or returning to the dive resort. Siu and Jebo are seaside villages and Orotoaba is located on top of a fjord spur with 360 degree views and surrounded by lush vegetation. Overnight Tufi (dive resort or village guest house). (B,L,D) |
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 »Tufi Village Coast |
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INTERNAL FLIGHTS |
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| TOUR INCLUSIONS • meet and greet at Port Moresby airport and check-in/luggage assistance |
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| TOUR EXCLUSIONS: •International airfares other meals not stated as included |
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SPECIFIC TOUR NOTES: 1. The general terms and conditions applicable to this tour are those specified on your invoice and on the Booking page of our website. 2. Destinations are subject to change in response to local conditions. Where travel to a specified destination is contraindicated by local conditions, travel to an alternative destination of similar value with similar activities will be provided where possible, but claims for partial refunds based on quality of substitute activities will not be entertained. 3. Hotel accommodation in Papua New Guinea towns is very limited. In Mt Hagen for example there is only one three and a half star hotel and a number of three star and two and a half star establishments. While we endeavour to book you into the hotels nominated in the tour itinerary, in cases where hotels are fully booked by the time we receive your tour deposit, we may have to book you into alternative hotels. We strive to book you into the best available rooms in each property and we apologise in advance if deluxe rooms are not available and you find yourself booked into a standard room in a hotel of lesser quality. However this is one of the risks of touring in Papua New Guinea, that you accept, and no refunds or partial refunds will be issued on the basis of the quality of hotel rooms provided for you while on tour. 4. All accommodation included in the tour package at the rack rate quoted is twin-share. On payment of a single supplement of an additional 10% of the rack rate, we will arrange single occupancy for you wherever single rooms are available. No partial refund on the single supplement is claimable for destinations where single occupancy is not available or not provided, ie we will do our best but no promises and cccno refunds. 5. Tour group size is 15 pax plus 1 tour escort (Ecotourism Melanesia staff). Where the number of bookings for the tour exceeds 25, two parallel tour groups will be operated rather than increasing the group size, due to limited size of charter aircraft, buses etc. Where the number of confirmed bookings for this tour is less than 10 by the end of May 2006, the tour will be cancelled and deposits refunded. 6. (B,L,D) refers to breakfast, lunch or dinner where included in the tour cost. Other meals can be paid for in cash or with credit card direct to the hotel or restaurant). |
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