- 期間: 4 Days (approx.)
- 所在地: Goroka
- 製品コード: goroka4d
Goroka + Mount Hagen - Culture, Nature, and Adventure! - 5 days/4 nights
Day 1: Welcome to Goroka
Upon arrival in Goroka today, you transfers to the village Eco lodge will be there to pick you, departing Goroka direct to Gurupoka Village, you check into your lodge, after lunch go to watch the famous mudmen for an up close and personal encounter with the Asaro Mudmen, An opportunity to have a feel of the traditional village life of the Asaro Tribe. Enjoy a traditional dance performance of the Asaro Mudmen. Have your face painted in traditional Asaro tribe colors and designs. You return to the lodge and observe the traditional bamboo cooking where vegetable and chicken is stuffed into the bamboo and cooked over low heat till ready for plating. This is served at dinner. You return to your Village Eco Lodge Accommodation/Lunch/Dinner. (Tribes Mudmen Eco Lodge)
DAY 2: GURUPOKA – THE MUDMEN VILLAGE
After breakfast, you take a morning walk to Mount Gurupoka (a good hike uphill) rewards you with a stunning view of the Asaro Valley Goroka town, Mt Gahavesuka and the neighboring Coastal province of Madang in the far distance. Enjoy the company of the Asaro Mudmen as you visit the old sacrificial cave and the cross on top of the holy mountain of Gurupoka. You descend to reach the home of the Tribal Elder of the Mokomoko Dancers. Moko Moko is a Tribal dancing and singsing usually performed after tribal fights to celebrate victory and a bold show of manhood, a very spectacular show that Mudmen danced after victory from their tribal fights. After lunch, enjoy singsing and dance performances from other tribes, the tongue bleeding, Cane Swallowing, the Moko Mask Dancers/ Accommodation/Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner. (Tribes Mudmen Eco Lodge)
DAY 3: GOROKA -CHIMBU-HAGEN (BY ROAD)
After breakfast checkout of your lodge and depart around 7:30am by road for Mt Hagen, this is a most beautiful part of the highlands highway where you will enjoy the mountain view with hamlets of kunai grass houses and patches of vegetable gardens along the way, stop to photographs at Daulo top as you travel through Daulo Pass and higher towards Chimbu (or Simbu – as locally pronounced) This drive takes up to 2 hours. In Mindima, you stop at the Skeleton Tribes lodge, after a warm welcome and lunch, you go to watch the Oma Masalai (Skeleton Dancers) the Nurku Dust Walkers and the Insect Hunters. You depart the Skeleton tribes village for Mt Hagen by road, arrive Mt Hagen and proceed to Magic Mountain Lodge. The lodge has easily accessible birding sites where you can enjoy bird watching anytime during your stay either from the verandah of the lodge or go walking through their lush forest and see some of the orchids and birding sights unique to the highlands of PNG Accommodation, All meals, Land transfers
DAY 4:PAIYA VILLAGE MT HAGEN
After breakfast you visit the Mt Hagen local vegetable market, and the Huli Wigmen village, you return to travelers lodge for a hearty lunch before departing for Paiya Village. Meet the village chief, his three wives, and the village singsing performances. Watch the Melpa singsing group adorn their bodies with colorful body paints and brightly constructed head dresses made of bod feathers and foliage, take time to see firsthand the village hamlets, gardens and way of life of the Melpa people. You return to the lodge and take it easy, bird watching from the verandah of the lodge or go walking through their lush forest.
DAY 5: MT HAGEN – PORT MORESBY
After breakfast you depart the lodge for Kagamuga airport, where you check in for your morning flight out of Mt Hagen to Port Moresby. End of tour once guests are dropped off at the Hagen airport.
Included:
- Accommodation as mentioned
- Meals as mentioned
- Land transfers as listed
- All entrance fees
- Mudmen Village, Skeleton tribe Village singsing performances
- Huli Wigmen Village/Paiya Village
- Guides
Excluded:
- Gratuities
- Travel/Medical/Cancellation insurance
- Visas
- Meals and drinks
- Personal items such as insect repellent, sunscreen, medications if necessary, souvenirs, etc
- Day 1: I am warmly greeted by David Kima, who recounts the story and conservation movement of Hogave. We arrive in the middle of the local village mourning of a recently deceased member, a very rare and local experience, totally unplanned. After 3 hours of very rocky road driving, I arrive at the Hogave Conservation Centre welcomed by two villagers who performed a traditional wind instrument that very few locals can play, and incredibly, I become only the second (or third) tourist ever to stay here.
- Day 2: I trek through a truly "virgin" rain forest, one of very few remaining in the world (Congo, Amazon, and PNG), guided by three locals bushwhacking the way with machetes, climb a very wild and steep mountain side equivalent of 200 floors (according to my iPhone) to become the first tourist to reach the top of Mt. Michael. (The way down in the pouring rain was our least favorite moment.) As someone who has summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, I can truthfully say this was a much more challenging level of difficulty - There the most I've climbed in one day was 134 floors, 3-4 hours max, with a different day dedicated to a descent, but in Michael, it was 200 floor, up and down in one day, for 10-12 hours, with far steeper and unpaved paths without camps. This hike/trek is only for the fittest of the fit!
- Day 3: I become the first tourist to visit and stay overnight at Hogave Village, an isolated and remote hour-and-a-half walk from HCC, and join the villagers in peeling potatoes and taro, preparing, and eating mumu. I stay overnight with David (another David) and his family.
- Day 4: I join the villagers gathered to enjoy a traditional hunting performance
- Day 5: I get cellular reception for the first time since I arrive in PNG and get to upload and share my first batch of photos with my friends. https://www.facebook.com/grace.forker.7/media_set?set=a.837672754956.1073741876.3501655&type=3
- Day 1: I ride a local bus (!) with my guide Pauline Puipui to Ratavul where I visit to stay with her family. I visit the local beach, listen to the stories of Pauline's parents, and join them for dinner which is mumu with the biggest giant claims I've ever seen in my life! I stay overnight at an authentic hut and bed made of woven coconut leaves.
- Day 2: I try weaving coconut leaves, scraping coconuts, etc. in preparing mumu that we enjoy with the family and neighbors, then string together local currency of shells. https://www.facebook.com/grace.forker.7/media_set?set=a.836154502546.1073741875.3501655&type=3
- Day 3: I am amazed by the first day of Mask Festival with the early morning Kinavai and nighttime Baining Fire Dance. https://www.facebook.com/grace.forker.7/media_set?set=a.837870833006.1073741880.3501655&type=3 In between during the day, I snorkel and sail with dolphins on the way to/from Duke of York Islands where I explore and picnic at the beach. https://www.facebook.com/grace.forker.7/media_set?set=a.836148634306.1073741874.3501655&type=3
- Days 4-5: More amazing moments at the Festival
- Day 6: I climb to the top Mt Tavurvur volcano and explore Rabaul, including the Japanese bunker and barge tunnels, and Rabaul Museum/Rabaul Hotel. What a history! https://www.facebook.com/grace.forker.7/media_set?set=a.837875388876.1073741881.3501655&type=3
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