Hello there, answers are as follows:Q. What is the best place and way to secure a guide? (Should I book ahead?)A. Contact the Kokoda Track Authority. Q. Should you book aheadA. Yes most definitely as you have chosen the most popular time of the year to trek.Q. What equipment do the guides carry for themselves? (eg. Pack, ground sheet and machete…[Read more]

Hi there, I went to my pngbd website and found the following:

SHANDLEY, Private, JOHN TAYLOR, QX20382. A.LF. 2/1 Coy. Australian Army Service Corps. 16th January 1943. Age 26. Son of Edward and Alice Maud Shandley, of Bundaberg, Queensland. B l . F. 21.

Hope this is the person you are looking for.

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The Kokoda Trail: A History The Kokoda Trail is a remote jungle track in the old Australian Territory of Papua where Aussie Diggers and the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels battled desperately against Japanese invaders to save Australia in 1942.The Kokoda Trail campaign, fought out over six months and two days on a narrow front in appalling conditions, has…[Read more]

Bob's Motu – English Dictionary with PNG History Pre World War II Walking the Kokoda Trail in December 2002 after being away from the country for 22 years, I was amazed how Motu words just seemed to appear from the back of the mind. This came from living in PNG for 41 years when Motu was the lingua franca of Papua. Pidgin appeared in the early…[Read more]

Kokoda Trail Trekking Guide and DiaryA Must Have diary out on the Kokoda Trail. 40 Pages – 12 for your own notes. Write it down whilst fresh with emotion. Comes Complete with the following features:

• A5 Size in Glossy Paper
• Lightweight – carry it with you in your backpack
• 40 pages – 12 for your own notes
• Write it down whilst fresh with emotion
• Kokod…

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Kokoda Trail – McDonald's Corner Album From a young family looking down the barrel of Japanese invasion to the Battle of the Coral Sea to the soldier's campaign to current trekking, this album is the story of Kokoda Trail accompanied by 400 images spanning the past sixty years.Reading this makes your legs grow weary as if you had just climbed the…[Read more]

Past Time, and Your Time, On the Kokoda Trail Introduction With the trek you will soon be, or are now planning to undertake, you will retrace the footsteps, made over sixty years ago during the Second World War, of the soldiers who fought to conquer, or defend, Papua New Guinea and Australia. The defenders won a hard fought battle that was often…[Read more]

Kokoda DVD:Follow a group of guides and porters from Kokoda Trekking (www.kokodatrekking.com.au), along the infamous Kokoda Trail. Starting at Kokoda Village ending at Ower's Corner The DVD also includes a 15 minute slide show at the end, from various treks over the years. The footage has been take by guides and porters while on the trail, so…[Read more]

Kokoda Trek Gift:Select a 6 or 9 day trek – plenty to choose from by clicking on our schedule page.Fantastic experience – the chance of a lifetime to follow their dreams and walk the infamous Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea.Motivation for exercise and a wonderful experience they will never forget.Photograph: Nauro Village – Kokoda Trail:IMGP0303.jpg

Hi Mays, tks for visiting our website and taking the time to post on our forum.Are you planning on walking yourself? or do you plan on going through a trekking company?

as they say in PNG, hi tupela (hi to both of you)Kokoda will be both a challenge and one of the best things you will ever do in your life. Even though you are not trekking with Kokoda Trekking Ltd I would welcome your feedback Jess as to how you enjoyed your trek once you get back from PNG.If I can be of any help in your preparation, I am living…[Read more]

As promised, the New Year has on offer our KOKODA BUDGET TREKS for those of you who want a no frills experience. They are on offer one per month at this stage but if we receive a lot of interest, we may consider offering more. They are basically designed to skip the Kokoda experience by overnighting there.Also at the other end nearer to Ower's…[Read more]

PROPHYLAXISPregnancy: at booking, treat for uncomplicated malaria, followed by weekly chloroquine. Any breakthrough is treated with Artemisinin/Fansidar.Prophylaxis for Adults: Partially immune nationals and long term foreign residents of PNG. Anyone in these group living in low transmission areas (Highlands or NCD), who travel to Holoendemic…[Read more]

Treatment Failure Malaria (TFM)If the plasmodium species is unknown, treat as for complicated malaria (Artesunate and Fansidar).Diagnosis is made by bloodslide examination:For Falciparum Malaria: irrespective of the patient's clinical status, the patient is treated as for complicated malaria, ie, Artemisinin derivative and Fansidar. For pregnant…[Read more]

SEVERE MALARIA and TREATMENT FAILURE MALARIA:Complicatedmalaria is indicated by the following danger signs:changes in behaviour (convulsions; consciousness; confusion; inability to walk; speak or recognise relatives);repeated vomiting; inability to retain oral medications; inability to eat or drink;passage of small quantities of urine or no…[Read more]

SIMPLE / UNCOMPLICATED MALARIA1. Chloroquine and Camoquine will continue to be used as the first line treatment. Dosages remain unchanged.2. Fansidar must now be added to both Chloroquine and Camoquine. Fansidar is to be given as a single dose, on the first day of treatment.Stat dose of Fansidar:25 mg sulfadozine / kg – body weight (one 500 mg…[Read more]

Happy Trekking from all of us here at Kokoda TrekkingSing_Sing_Group___tent.jpg

If you warm to them you will find porters and guides will feel comfortable in talking with you as this trekker found out on her trek recently. Both trekker and porter relaxing enjoying a cuppa at a Village Guesthouse Area:Suga___trekker_relaxing_at_.jpg

Naoro Guesthouse yeah with PILLOWS:Guesthouse_with_pillows.jpg

Menari Dining Table:Dining_Table.jpg