Arrive in Port Moresby, where you will be met and transferred to the Airways Hotel. You will meet your guide and other group members, and the rest of the day is free.

Transfer to the airport for your Air Niugini flight to Mt Hagen and then on to Karawari. (PX 180 & charter flight) Sitting on a ridge above the Karawari River, the lodge boasts a spectacular view over hundreds of miles of dense tropical jungle.  Inspired by local architecture and built with traditional materials, the Karawari Lodge still provides modern comforts. You are now in the middle of “Arambak” country, where local people pole dugout canoes along the river, the drums throb, the wild birds call, and traditional village lifestyles continue unchanged. A half-day excursion along the jungle-fringed waterways of the Karawari River will be your discovery today.

After breakfast transfer from Karawari Lodge to the air-conditioned comfort of the MV Sepik Spirit. Inspired by the architecture of the “haus tambaran,” or spirit house, the MV Sepik Spirit has a truly unique design. After lunch tour the local villages.

Enjoy two full days tour with picnic lunched to the remote Black Water Lakes. While touring you will visit villages where the people are prolific carvers. Here you can purchase many interesting items such as masks elaborately carved hooks, ancestral figures, hand drums, baskets, bilums, and gourds. On return from tour, the Sepik Spirit will cruise back to Karawari for your early morning departure the following day.

Begin the journey back up the Karawari River and prepare to leave the Sepik Spirit. Take a short flight from Karawari across untouched rainforest and mountains to the Tari Valley. The Huli tribe that inhabit this area is the largest as well as one of the most colourful and iconic tribes of PNG. Once you arrive you will be transferred to the Ambua Lodge; nestled at the edge of the lush green rainforest and overlooking the serene Tari valley below. Spend the afternoon enjoying Ambua’s winding forest trails that take you through lush rainforest, past gushing waterfalls and over traditional vine bridges. While on the nature walk you may have a chance to observe up to 13 species of the birds of paradise alongside a wide variety of colorful flowers, exotic plants and insects.

Spend two full days touring the villages and countryside of the iconic Huli tribe. The Hulis are famed for their colorful bilas and unique traditions. The Huli men pride themselves on their beautiful bilas with its elaborately constructed human hair headdress which they lavishly decorated with flowers, mosses and ornate bird feathers. Their bilas combined with their unique sing-sing is intended both to enrapture their audience as well as intimidate enemies. Visit the mens’ hair-wig school and tour the local villages to experience how this proud mountain tribe has evolved in the modern age, while still maintaining the stories, beliefs and traditions of their ancestors.

Head to the airstrip to catch your charter flight to Mt. Hagen. During the flight, mountains rise up to startling heights out of the flatlands of the Sepik Basin. Mt. Hagen Town is located in the upper Wahgi Valley. Upon arrival at the airport, you will be met and transferred to the Highlander Hotel. In preparation for the Mt. Hagen Cultural Show, there will be a pre-show program in the afternoon at Rondon Ridge.

Spend the next couple days enjoying the Mount Hagen Show. The show is famous for its vibrant color and culture. The diversity of the coastal, lowlands, and highlands sing sing groups at the Hagen show reflects the unbelievable diversity of Papua New Guinea’s landscape.

Transfer to the airport for your flight to Port Moresby. (PX181) Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. After a break for lunch, enjoy a tour of Port Moresby, including visits to the National Museum, Botanical Gardens, PNG Arts Shop, and the National Parliament House (outside view only).

Transfer from your hotel to the airport for your onward international flight.