Trekkers have now reached the half way point of Efogi where they are spending the night. Last night was spent at Agulogo and today they had a tough climb up to Brigade Hill before heading down to Efogi.Agulogo1 640×480.JPGAgulogo 640×480.JPGEfogi Village.jpg

Trekkers walked off the track earlier today so congratulations are in order for these four trekkers. They have been relaxing and enjoying a few SP Beers at our Orohaven Wantok Tavern throughout the day. Well done everyone! Picture them today as they made their way to the finish line in Kokoda.DSCN0165 640×480.JPG

Congratulations Horace on your new appointment as a Guide for KTL, you thoroughly deserve it my friend. We missed you after you left our Trek to head to the North Coast. Look after yourself and keep in touch through gail's website.

Best regards from Lara & grant as well.

Best wishes

Waza

Congratulations Brendan on your first Trek as a Guide and I have no doubt that it was a success. From last time I know that you would have an over-riding concern for the welfare of your Trek Members. Let me know how you went.

Look forward to receiving something via Gail in the near future, as it is an item that you will need in every day life and…[Read more]

Firstly my apology for the lack of updates during your trek as we installed a new version of this forum which caused a few problems. However, our facebook page was updated regularly so hopefully family members back home were able to keep up with your progress.

It was nice catching up with you all earlier today and trust you had a good flight…[Read more]

Some of the photographs below were taken in Kokoda and the others were taken at our base here in Port Moresby at our base.DSCN0165 640×480.JPGDSCN0178 640×480.JPGDSCN0179 640×480.JPGDSCN0180 640×480.JPGDSCN0181 640×480.JPGDSCN0183 640×480.JPGDSCN0184 640×480.JPG

These two guys spent two nights at Orohaven Kokoda Retreat so looked more than relaxed when I met up with them this morning after they had flown in from Kokoda.

I was asked if I wanted more Americans to come and trek with us, the answer was YES. To date we have only had a handful of American's and would welcome more if they would like to make…[Read more]

Spoke to Ernst Jinga today at Deniki whilst they were heading towards Hoi where they will spend their last night on the track. He said everyone is ok with the exception of Grant who has been experiencing knee problems.

However, they have been taking it slow and he will definitely finish his trek.

He said everyone was in good spirits and…[Read more]

Horace phoned from Imita Ridge and said they were all going well and that the plan was to stop at Ua'Ule Creek. He expected Simon to join them later today.267002_10150304925230971_374403025970_9916376_5706358_o 640×480.jpg

The guide for this trek is Horace Yauga – this is his first trek as a guide so will naturally be looking forward to this. Wallace Lemeki one of our most senior guides unfortunately cannot walk at the moment previously selected to walk with this trek. It was his recommendation that Horace be moved up to take his place.

Horace has always finished…[Read more]

Introducing some of the staff who are walking with trek 839:IMG_0202 640×480.JPGIMG_0203 640×480.JPGIMG_0204 640×480.JPGIMG_0205 640×480.JPGIMG_0206 640×480.JPGIMG_0207 640×480.JPGIMG_0208 640×480.JPGIMG_0210 640×480.JPG

Last night the remaining member of this trek, Simon Wood arrived in town around 9pm. We agreed to pick him up at 6am and drive him out to Owers' Corner so he could walk in and catch up with the group of trekkers who had spent the night at Goodwater campsite.

Simon was just SO HAPPY as it seems he had booked with another company who subsequently…[Read more]

Bye bye trek 839. It was quite a slippery start and one of our porters slipped over whilst looking at his trekker and not at his feet. This caused a couple of anxious moments for the guide on this trek, Horace Yauga.IMG_0220 640×480.JPGIMG_0222 640×480.JPGIMG_0223 640×480.JPGIMG_0224 640×480.JPGIMG_0225 640×480.JPG

Trekkers lined one and we took some last minute photographs before they headed off:IMG_0211 640×480.JPGIMG_0212 640×480.JPGIMG_0213 640×480.JPGIMG_0214 640×480.JPGIMG_0215 640×480.JPGIMG_0216 640×480.JPGIMG_0217 640×480.JPGIMG_0218 640×480.JPGIMG_0219 640×480.JPG

Sione sang the PNG National Anthem and the aussie sang the Australilan Anthem and before long they were lining up for their group photograph before heading off down their first descent towards Goldie River:IMG_0194 640×480.JPGIMG_0200 640×480.JPG

Trekkers lined up under the archwayIMG_0178 640×480.JPGIMG_0180 640×480.JPGIMG_0183 640×480.JPGIMG_0185 640×480.JPG

At Owers' Corner trekkers got to meet up with their personal porters:IMG_0171 640×480.JPGIMG_0172 640×480.JPGIMG_0173 640×480.JPGIMG_0174 640×480.JPGIMG_0175 640×480.JPGIMG_0176 640×480.JPG

On the way out to Owers' Corner we stopped at McDonald's Corner.IMG_0170 640×480.JPG

One more thing I forgot to mention, Bronwyn Grass on arrival in PNG found her bag had failed to get on the flight and was still in Australia.

Bronwyn had called me earlier on the morning of the 9th thinking of pulling out and waiting to see if her bag turned up. I assured her we would take care of her bag and would get it walked in to her and in…[Read more]

On the same day 5 of our porters flight was cancelled out of Popondetta and they were down to catch the flight on the morning of the 8th June at 8am.T

The morning of the 9th June it was decided that we collect the boys from the airport then head to the Airways Hotel to collect two other trekkers David and Louise York and that we would head out of…[Read more]