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It's interesting how we can talk on such a specific subject me writing from Italy and you answering from (I guess) Australia. I get your point of view, but as an old school mountaineer I have my personal one. In my opinion self-sufficiency is one of the most important things of any adventure; of course "not get in trouble" is the first rule.
In my experience I never had to rely on the help of guides or porters, if I was not ready for something I always had time to wait for the right moment, and that's the challenge. Eventhough I can imegine that share the trail with local people can be a wonderful experience.
I guess that jungle is not mountain and is very likely to get lost, plus food unreliability, poor maps (GPS points would make the real difference!), underdeveloped country ecc ecc. So I thank you for warning me.
By now I have enough preliminary informations, but I didn'y make my mind yet on "how".
Thank you, take care.
Thank you very much for the answer.
So it seems that is probably more difficult than I thought. Just to make an approximative statistic, how many people (percentage out of all the trekkers) do the kokoda whitout a guide nor porter?
In your kokoda experience did you encounter any one without guides nor porters?
Just one thing I did not understand clearly in your answer, where do you get food? are there villages to buy something?
