Trek 181: Kokoda; Goroka Show; Hiri Moale Festival; Simbai Cultural Experience Date of trek: 6 September 2006 – 14 September 2006 This trek is designed so that you fly into Kokoda on Wednesday 6th September and overnight at Rusty's Kokoda Family Block. The next day you walk up to Isurava where you will spend your 2nd night. On Thursday 14th…[Read more]

The next day on the Monday you could travel up to Mt Hagen and fly out to Simbai for a cultural experience like no other. There you can be accommodated in a guesthouse and witness something truly unique.I have just got off the phone after talking with Steven Mago who was invited to this years inaugural Kalam Cultural Festival.Simbai, with a…[Read more]

The Goroka Show main days are Saturday & Sunday. Many different tribes are invited to the Goroka Showground where they perform for the judges. You are more than welcome to walk around and take photographs. You would only need to attend on either of these days.Last year I helped bring to PNG a rich Taiwanese businessman by the name of Frank Lin.…[Read more]

You could attend the Hiri Moale Festival in the morning and then travel in the afternoon up to Goroka and overnight. The next morning attend the Goroka Show. For anyone who loves photography you wont be disappointed.Photograph: Hiri Moale Entrants Dancing at Ela Beach on a traditionally built guesthouse for the occasion. During the course of…[Read more]

Jocelyn Medhurst's trek got a mention in Friday 11th November's Post Courier,CLICK HERE to read the article:100_3799.jpg

Hi Bruce, once again tks for taking the time to post and also for your photographs uploaded by you today. I received an email some time back from Bob McDonald and he told me he went to the same reunion. Also received an email from another person present who had sent some photographs to a family in Popondetta from a couple of years back and they…[Read more]

You might even get to meet my husband John who is one of their Dash 8 Captains. If you are heading up here to walk the Kokoda Trail than say hi to him especially if you trekking with us Kokoda Trekking:John_Thomas.jpg

Just some of the friendly happy flight attendants who work on Airline's of PNG's Dash 8 aircraft:Flight_Attendants_600.jpg

2/7th Australian Infantry Battalion:The 2/7th, as a whole, first met the Japanese in battle in the mid-January 1943 as part of the force defending Wau in New Guinea, although its carrier platoon had already been involved in fighting at Buna in Papua. Once Wau was made secure in early February, the 2/7th subsequently participated in the drive…[Read more]

CLICK HERE to be taken to an area which shows a complete listing of all the fallen soldiers who are buried in the Lae Cemetery:Lest we Forget:anzac4.jpg

Lae War Memorial:The Japanese attack on New Guinea, a necessary preliminary to the projected invasion of Australia, commenced with heavy air raids on Lae and Salamaua, followed by the landing of troops. At Lae, a town and port at the mouth of the Markham River on the Huon Gulf, 3,000 Japanese landed on March 7th, 1942. There were landings too at…[Read more]

Lae – Operations in New Guinea IN March 1942, Japanese forces landed at Lae and Salamaua on the mainland of New Guinea. The only defending forces in the area were small detachments of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles based on Wau, a gold-mining town, in the highlands to the south. These riflemen, well served by native followers, established…[Read more]

Editors Note: At this point of time we are only asking for expressions of interest and which trek you are considering. If we get enough response, we will definitely go ahead with these two treks but we need at least 10 trekkers to make it viable. Its now over to you the trekking public to show your interest in trekking this new and exciting…[Read more]

Trek 176: Commencing 6th March from Salamaua – Wau – Proud Papua New Guinea led trek: Arriving in Wau on the 11th March, 2006.Trek 177: Expatriate Led Trek (naturally this will be more expensive) – Commencing Monday 14th March in Wau and walking to Salamaua finishing on the 19th March, 2006 back in Port Moresby.Suggested Itinerary or vice…[Read more]

BLACK CAT TRAIL – Expressions of interest for anyone interested in walking this trek: We are planning on running two separate treks initially, one led by Pamela Christie an experienced expatriate Guide who has already walked the Black Cat Trail. In fact Pam is fast gaining a reputation for having trekked just about everywhere in PNG. On the…[Read more]

Mixed Group of couples; father daughter and other combinations:IMG_1515.jpg

Medhurst Family Group & friends including three generations of trekkers:100_3799.jpg

Brother, sister and brother in-law:Young.jpg

'Apted Family group as well as other father son combinations who trekked earlier this year with KTL. The youngest in this group was 12 years of age and now holds the record as our youngest overseas trekker:'Apted_Family.jpg

Brother and sister in-law seen here with KTL porters & guides at McDonald's Corner. Also in the photograph, Johnsford, Ross, Davidson & Russell Eroro – four of 17 children along with Eric who used to be one of our guides. Ciprian another guide is also in this photograph:RIMG0236.jpg