Scheduled Tours
Papua New Guinea Tours, Cultural Festivals & Sing-Sings
Festivals, Sing-Sings and Cultural Tours – Rates in US Dollars
Kokopo National Mask Festival 6 to 11 July, 2027
from $ 895 USD per person
Five night’s bed and breakfast accommodation at the Rapopo Plantation Resort, Kinavai Ceremony, Bainings Fire Dance* (supplement may be required depending on location), full day Rabaul WW2 Tour, Kokopo agriculture and food tour or Mt Tarvurvur volcano hike, Duke of York Islands tour, Dolphin swim, airport transfers.
Double Occupancy Rates: Bayside Garden room $ 895 per person sharing. Poolside Premier room $ 910.
Twin Occupancy Rates: Bayside Garden room $ 895 per person sharing. Poolside Premier room $ 990.
Single Occupancy Rates: Bayside Garden room $1,175 per person sharing. Poolside Premier room $1,375.
Extensions for the end of the Warwagira music festival are possible. Rates in USD. Return Port Moresby flights between $ 450 and $ 600.
More information on the Kokopo National Mask Festival here.
Sepik Crocodile Festival 3 to 9 August, 2027
$2,849 with domestic flights – Fully escorted trip
Start with a flight from Port Moresby with your guide to the Sepik and a night in Wewak at the very comfortable In Wewak Boutique Hotel. The next day, with your local guide, you will be driven across the Hunstein range to the mighty Sepik to board your motorised dugout canoe at Pagwi and cruise upstream to Wagu Lagoon, passing villages along the way.
Your accommodation for three nights is in Wagu guesthouse, in the Upper Sepik, on foam mattresses with clean linen and mosquito nets. The guesthouse has a solar system and a generator for battery charging and light at night. On the 5th we will visit spirit houses at Meno and Tongijamb, on 6th, we will attend the Sepik Crocodile Festival, and photograph the varied and fascinating tribal groups from the region.
We will also go and look for the Lesser Bird of Paradise on a dawn trip. Wagu Lagoon is an excellent place for bird photography too. On the 7th, we will go into to the Middle Sepik to visit the villages of Palimbei and Kanganamun, the most well-known of the Iatmul language group tribes, who practice the art of extreme scarification, known as the Crocodilemen, where you will spend the night.
We will return to Pagwi around lunchtime on the 8th, and then return to Wewak to overnight at In Wewak Boutique Hotel.
There is a single room supplement for the two nights in Wewak of $ 297. Itinerary here.
Hagen Highlands Tribes Tour 9 to 16 August, 2027
$3,410 per person sharing,
$ 462 single supplement.
Includes domestic flights.
On the 9th, we fly to Goroka in the morning, visit the market, the museum, and a coffee roaster before spending the night at Klerht Cove Motel, a pleasant guesthouse wonderfully hosted by the local doctor and surgeon, Dr Boone and his family.
The following day, we visit two different tribes, the Nupaha and the Akameku, in their respective villages, for private sing-sings, followed by a night back at Klerht Cove.
On the 11th, we head west to the Asaro Valley, home to the famous Mudmen, where we will spend the day learning about their culture, traditions, and way of life, before spending the night in their guesthouse.
On the 12th, we continue westwards along the Highlands Highway through Simbu and Jiwaka provinces, to Mt Hagen for four night’s full board accommodation at Shine Inn, with the Paiya mini-show on the 13th with 12 iconic tribes, and the splendid Mt Hagen Festival on 14th and 15th. Includes all meals, transfers, guiding, show passes, and domestic flights. Itinerary here.
Mount Hagen Four-Night Sing-Sing Tour Highlander Hotel 12 to 16 August, 2027
$2,860 per person sharing
$3,861 single supplement.
Includes domestic flights.
Four night’s full board accommodation at The Highlander Hotel, the best hotel in town, Paiya mini-show on the 13th with 12 iconic tribes, airport transfers on the 12th and 16th, transfers to the show grounds and back on the 14th and 15th. Includes show pass, birding, and return flights from Port Moresby flights. Itinerary here.
Basic Mount Hagen Four-Night Sing-Sing Tour 12 to 16 August, 2027
$2,145 per person sharing,
$2,497 single supplement.
Includes domestic flights
Four night’s full board accommodation at Shine Inn, Paiya mini-show on the 13th with 12 iconic tribes, airport transfers on the 14th and 16th, transfers to the show grounds and back on the 14th and 15th.
Includes show pass, birding, and return flights from Port Moresby flights. Itinerary here.
The Vista Tour 5 to 17 August, 2027
$14,616 per person (twin share).
$16,099 single except twin share on the Sepik Spirit and Highlander Hotel.
Includes domestic flights.
The Vista Show, a fully escorted 13-day/12-night program, provides a wide perspective on Papua New Guinea, from a journey through the Sepik Region to shaking hands with a Huli Wigman.
The tour culminates with the Mount Hagen Cultural Show. The Hagen Show brings together sing-sing groups from throughout Papua New Guinea, with the variety of cultures and groups represented in turn reflecting the diversity of Papua New Guinea’s landscapes.
From lowland tropical rainforests to alpine forests and grasslands, Papua New Guinea possesses a huge variety of rugged landscapes, exotic ecosystems and pre-technological cultures.
The Discoverer Tour 12 to 20 August, 2027
$9,774 per person (twin share).
$10,926 single except twin share at the Highlander Hotel.
Includes domestic flights.
The Discoverer is an unescorted (local guides will be at each location) 9-day/8-night program, providing a unique opportunity to discover the culture and ecosystems of the world’s second largest island New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is a veritable smorgasbord of colour, culture and excitement. The highlight of the Discoverer program is attendance at the famous Mount Hagen Cultural Show, a world-famous cultural gathering of many of the opulently decorated cultural groups of this incredibly diverse land.
The Panorama Tour 13 to 23 August, 2027
$11,507 per person (twin share).
$12,181 single except twin share on the Sepik Spirit and Rondon Ridge.
Includes domestic flights.
The Panorama Show is a fully escorted 11-day/10-night program that provides a stunning view of Papua New Guinea. The journey begins with the spectacular Mt Hagen Cultural show, providing an incredible vista of cultures from all over Papua New Guinea. In a land of nearly 800 languages, there is no better place to see so many gathered in one place
Sepik Adventure Tour – Rivers and Spirit Houses of the Middle Sepik 14 to 20 September, 2027
$2,830 per person sharing,
$ 389 additional for single supplement.
Including domestic flights.
Designed to fit in with the Highlands Tribes Tour that starts on 20th September, the Sepik Adventure Tour flies you up to Wewak for a night at In Wewak Boutique hotel where you will meet your guide. The following morning you, are driven through the Prince Alexander range to Pagwi, stopping for lunch at a roadside market along the way.
The Sepik River stretches from Telefomin in Sandaun Province to its outlet into the Bismarck Sea at Kopar village. There are many villages and hamlets in this culturally and environmentally rich area. The largest local animal is the wild pig – which is tamed and kept in the villages for use at cultural gatherings and compensation ceremonies. There are many other natural animal inhabitants, such as snakes, lizards, bandicoots, and above all birds. Many of the village songs and dances centre on indigenous animals and birds – the largest of which is the angry-looking flightless cassowary, a relative of the emu and the second heaviest bird on the planet.
The Middle Sepik is the last remaining area where the crocodile skin cutting initiation is still practiced. The villages in this region are more accessible and not so far apart in terms of travel time than on the more remote Upper Sepik. These villages have stood firm against the invasion of Christianity. They still retain their Haus Tambarans and practice their traditional customs including the initiation and scarification of young “crocodile men”. Also, the villages are home to famous artists and their sought-after birds’ head carvings.
On one day, we will have a “village day” where you can participate in village life. This can be local cooking, vegetable gardening, seeing sago being made and having a go yourself, helping with house maintenance, giving a lesson at the village school, running a sports activity with the kids, or anything that you have skills for. Discover the Sepik Adventure Tour details here.
Highlands Tribes Escorted Tour (including the Goroka Festival) 20 – 28 September, 2027
$3,880 per person sharing,
$ 556 single supplement.
Including domestic flights.
Escorted by Best of PNG’s founder, Christopher Bartlett, we fly to Mount Hagen to meet the Huli Wigmen, the Melpa, and the Hagen Wigmen.
We have a morning birding walk, and an afternoon birdwatching from the comfort of a lodge, looking for Birds of Paradise and other endemic species.
We then travel through the provinces of Jiwaka and Chimbu, stopping to see a Chimbu coffee roaster, en route to Goroka.
You will love our unique Asaro Mudmen Sing-Sing on the Friday, and then it’s time for the Goroka two-day festival with four nights’ accommodation in a comfortable guesthouse close to the show grounds.
We end with another cultural day in the Eastern Highlands, visiting two more trines for private sing-sings, and spent the last night at the Asaro Mudmen village in a rustic lodge.
Includes meals except lunches in Goroka, internal flights, show entry, activities, transfers, Sing Sings, guiding. Interactive itinerary here.
Short Goroka Show Packages 23 to 27 September, 2027
from $1,350 flights included
Thursday: fly in from Port Moresby,
Friday: full-day Asaro Mudmen village visit and Asaro Sing-Sing (the best Asaro visit around) and Chimbu Masalai Skeleton Men,
Saturday: VIP passes for Goroka Show,
Sunday: VIP Passes for the Goroka Show,
Monday: Fly back to Port Moresby
Using single room accommodation with shared toilet and shower facilities, right next to the showgrounds $1,350, no meals included. Full Itinerary here
East New Britain Explorer September 29 to October 2, 2027
East New Britain Bainings Fire Dance and Duke of York Islands
4 nights based at the beachside Rapopo Plantation Resort to discover WW2 history, do a short hike a summit a volcano, snorkel reefs, swim with dolphins, visit the Duke of York Islands, and see the mind-blowing Bainings Fire Dance
Bayside Room
Single: $1,919
Double: $1,595 Per person sharing
Twin: $1,676 Per person sharing
Poolside Premier
Single: $2,049
Double: $1,622 Per person sharing
Twin: $1,725 per person sharing
