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I am attaching a Track Diary and Track tips that was sent to me by a man who did the Track in 2001. Hope everyone enjoys reading this as much I did, if you are going to print it, it's 38 pages long, so have plenty of paper, but it is 38 pages of good reading and highlights at the end that although the Kokoda Track is one of the main attractions of the New Guinea Tourist Industry, we must not forget that it is someone else's backyard we are trekking through and they are bound to get a little peeved at times with the amount of traffic that is constantly going through and that while the majority of the villages are welcoming, there is that element who will resent the intrusion. I am not sure if it is an exaggeration but I heard that there can be as many as 600+ people/tourists walking the track at any one time. The mind boggles!
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Kokoda_Tips.docJust started reading it. Wow – 25kg`s.
Must have bred them tough back in 2000. Should be a good read – the guy is very thorough.
In July we passed two groups coming the other way each with more than 100 in it: 3 porters for every trekker and way over the top.
No wonder people get pissed off when 100 people trample through their village in a few hours.
We got pissed off too, as groups that large need more than one campsite most nights.
We estimated that there would now be 1000+ trekkers on the track every day in the dry season moving north and south.
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