4-Day Immersion Kokoda Track

Early Morning Flight to Efogi Village (length of flight: 15 minutes)

Menari Village

Agulolo – Ioribaiwai (Approx. 6 hours)

Walk to Owens’ Corner (Approx. 5-6 hours)

Early Morning Flight to Efogi Village (length of flight: 15 minutes)

We take an early morning charter flight to Efogi Village where we will have the opportunity to watch and participate in several traditional activities such as:

• • Watch and participate in traditional cooking using an earth oven (local name – mumu).
  • Watch and participate in traditional cooking in bamboo.

We depart from Efogi after lunch and make our way to Menari Village, arriving in the afternoon (approximately a 3-hour walk). We will get set up for our stay here and we can wander through the village meeting some of the residents and learning about life in the village.

Menari Village

After breakfast, we will have the opportunity to participate in some of the village activities and watch demonstrations of the following:

• • Demonstration of and participation in a basket weaving session.
  • Demonstration of and participation in a blind weaving session for house wall.
  • Demonstration of and participation in special bamboo leaves or grass (Kunai grass) weaving session for roofing.
  • Demonstration of and participation in a bilum making session.
  • Participation in traditional trap-making the local people use to catch wild pigs and cassowaries.

We depart from Menari after lunch and make our way to Agulolo Village, arriving in the afternoon (approximately a 3-hour walk). We overnight in Agulolo.

Afternoon/evening campfire! Lots of opportunity for sharing cultural stories, jokes and of course, spooky stories. One of our stories told by our parents and passed down to us involves a village elder, a grass skirt, and overflowing water that became a river. We will share the details of this story and other folklore that is a part of our upbringing and culture. We hope to hear yours too!

Agulolo – Ioribaiwai (Approx. 6 hours)

We depart Agulolo after breakfast and make our way to Ioribaiwai Village.

We will have the opportunity to participate in some of the village activities and watch demonstrations of the following:

• Demonstration of and participation in a grass skirt weaving session.
• Demonstration of and participation in a basket weaving session.
• All guests pair with some families from the village to have a one-on-one visit in their home and meet their children and engage in some very immersive culture sharing.
• Campfire! This is our last opportunity for a shared conversation around the campfire about your experience along the Kokoda Track and about what we have learned from travel about ourselves and the world around us.