2012 Hiri Moale Festival (trip)

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2012 Hiri Moale Festival

  • Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
  • Active & Adventure
Papua New Guinea, , Australia and Pacific, Rainforest

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from $2,820* per person12 DaysYear-round
Comfort accommodations Exertion level: 2
Operator: Wemso Lodge & Tours 100 people max

This is an 11 day/12 Night itinerary highlighted as Hiri Moale Festival show. The Hiri Moale Festival concedes country’s (PNG) independence anniversary celebration which is on the (16th September) every year. The Hiri Moale celebrates the epic journeys of the Motuans with re-enactments of the voyages for current generations. The Hiri Moale Festival has become the city’s premier cultural show with activities including canoe racing, marching, floating, peroveta choir, and “SingSings”. The journeys taught people to endure hardships in life and taught the young life skills, seamanship and to get up and go and not rely on handouts.

The extension of the Hiri Moale Festival includes Adventure mighty Sepik River Cruise, Tari visit and Mt. Hagen. The Middle Sepik River is one of the richest areas in PNG for traditional culture, rainforests and carvings. The Upper Sepik is particularly renowned for its ancestral “Men’s Spirit Houses” and the “Insect Culture” as opposed to further down the river with the “Crocodile Culture”. The villages we visit are in a less populated area with smaller and more spasmodic villages than the Upper Sepik and Lower Sepik, but still offer very welcoming village people.

Due to the remoteness and accessibility of this part of The River, villagers will seldom be informed of your arrival beforehand, therefore we send you with a complete survival kit including mosquito nets, basic food provisions and bedding together with a true sense of adventure into the unknown!. The Sepik River is one of the richest areas in PNG for traditional culture, rainforests and bird species. Our guides are English speaking from the areas therefore knowing region and village people well, totally trustworthy and friendly. For your information, Wemso Tours accept group bookings as well as for individual on this tour. We work corporate with wholesales from USA, Germany, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Japan and Canada and of course our neighboring South Pacific countries including Australia and New Zealand plus other countries around the world.

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This is an 11 day/12 Night itinerary highlighted as Hiri Moale Festival show. The Hiri Moale Festival concedes country’s (PNG) independence anniversary celebration which is on the (16th September) every year. The Hiri Moale celebrates the epic journeys of the Motuans with re-enactments of the voyages for current generations. The Hiri Moale Festival has become the city’s premier cultural show with activities including canoe racing, marching, floating, peroveta choir, and “SingSings”. The journeys taught people to endure hardships in life and taught the young life skills, seamanship and to get up and go and not rely on handouts.

The extension of the Hiri Moale Festival includes Adventure mighty Sepik River Cruise, Tari visit and Mt. Hagen. The Middle Sepik River is one of the richest areas in PNG for traditional culture, rainforests and carvings. The Upper Sepik is particularly renowned for its ancestral “Men’s Spirit Houses” and the “Insect Culture” as opposed to further down the river with the “Crocodile Culture”. The villages we visit are in a less populated area with smaller and more spasmodic villages than the Upper Sepik and Lower Sepik, but still offer very welcoming village people.

Due to the remoteness and accessibility of this part of The River, villagers will seldom be informed of your arrival beforehand, therefore we send you with a complete survival kit including mosquito nets, basic food provisions and bedding together with a true sense of adventure into the unknown!. The Sepik River is one of the richest areas in PNG for traditional culture, rainforests and bird species. Our guides are English speaking from the areas therefore knowing region and village people well, totally trustworthy and friendly. For your information, Wemso Tours accept group bookings as well as for individual on this tour. We work corporate with wholesales from USA, Germany, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Japan and Canada and of course our neighboring South Pacific countries including Australia and New Zealand plus other countries around the world.


Our guides are English speaking from the areas you are visiting therefore knowing region and village people very well, totally trustworthy and friendly.

 

 

 

 

 

Itinerary in brief   (September 2012)

 

 

 Monday 03 September 2012: (International flight/Port Moresby)

Arrive into Port Moresby Jackson’s international airport ex international flight. A tourist visa is required and can be obtained on arrival. After clearing customs and migration formalities exit the arrival hall and meet Wemso Tours’ staff who will greet you and will hand over your travel documents and assist transfer you to Gale Lodge for overnight.

 

Tuesday 04 September 2012: Port Moresby/Wewak

Today after breakfast, you will be transferred by our driver to Jackson’s international airport in Port Moresby, board into Air Niugini flight to Wewak, meet by our local guide who will transfer you to New Wewak Hotel for check in. If time permits we will do a half day tour to Mission Hill, villages, local markets plus the surrounding villages. Return to New Wewak Hotel for overnight.

 

( Wednesday 05 -  Sunday 09 September 2012

  MIDDLE  SEPIK RIVER ADVENTURE  (5 days/4 nights)

For those travelers wanting to see as much of the River life as possible and who are interested in varied, different styles of Sepik carvings/artifacts we offer this “Drive in to Pagwi - drive out from ANGORAM” tour.

Starting from Pagwi, (Middle Sepik), traveling by motorized dugout canoe down the flowing river stopping off at villages along the way until reaching Angoram. This part of the Sepik River has villages dotted along the river banks, each with its own distinctive style of artifacts and variations of culture. The area is steeped in rituals, ceremonies and customs which are still very much part of the villager’s daily lives today as they have been for thousands of years. The Middle Sepik is particularly renowned for its ancestral “Men’s Spirit Houses”, (Haus Tambarans), where for centuries the amazing “Crocodile Initiation Ceremonies” take place, together with many other rituals. This scarification and rising of the skin is made through hundreds of fine cuts to the torso. When the skin has healed it has the appearance of crocodile markings. These marks represent the initiation from boyhood into adulthood thus bringing status and great respect. This is the area we specialize in sending people who want a true taste of PNG adventure. The villages we visit host the most welcoming of peoples. Our experienced trained guides will explain about the customs, answer your questions and assist you with everything including help with the purchasing of any artifacts you may be interested in.

There will plenty of opportunity for trekking through the jungle, seeing wild orchids, beautiful birds, catching fish for the evening meal, viewing/buying carvings, and experiencing each village’s distinct idiosyncrasies. No two villages are alike.

 

  KANGANAMAN GUEST HOUSE

 

INSIDE KANGANAMAN HAUS TAMBARAN

Wednesday 05 September 2012   (Sepik River Cruise)

Leave Wewak by 4WD Private Hire car to Pagwi Middle Sepik. Board your motorized dugout canoe heading down river to Kanganaman, on the way stopping off at Korogo village.  Sleep at Kanganaman guest house.

KANGANAMAN GUEST HOUSE

Thursday 06 September 2012 (Sepik River Cruise)
Depart Kanganaman and visit the beautiful villages of Palembei and Yentchen. Plenty of opportunity to buy artifacts in the villages in the Haus Tambaran's at both places. Return to Kanganaman and visit the initiated men in the Spirit House at night, a great experience when you can almost feel the ancestors in the shadows!
Sleep at guesthouse at Kanganaman.

Friday 07 September 2012 (Sepik River Cruise)
Depart Kanganaman to travel to Aibom near the Chambri Lakes. This village is known for its clay pottery sago storage jars and fire pots for cooking which the villagers exchange and trade with other villages for food. Continue down river to Mindimbit village where you will sleep in a family house.

Saturday 08 September 2012 (Sepik River Cruise)
Board your canoe and go down river to the village of Tambanum. This village has the largest selection of new carvings for sale and has huge family houses of a unique style to this village. After viewing these items, cross the river to Wombun village where you will sleep in the local village counselor’s family house.

    Councilor's Family House

Sunday 09 September 2012 (Angoram/Wewak)
After goodbyes to the family you will motor down river to the small township of Angoram. Here your car and driver will escort you and your guide back to Wewak to check into your hotel.

Monday 10 September 2012:    Wewak/Mt. Hagen on MAF  Flight

Transfer hotel to airport, board on MAF flight Wewak/Mt. Hagen, meet and assist transfer to hotel, half day tour of Mt. Hagen and surrounds include a visit to Waghi Valley to see the highlands main cash crop plantations, ‘tea and coffee’, Midiwaghi villages, bird watching, etc, overnight Airport Motel.

Tuesday 11 September 2012  (Mt. Hagen Tour)

 

Full day tour of Mt. Hagen. Today we will visit to Pogla cultural center where the villagers of Urip will set up the legendary Mudman show for us. We will also see different bird species both in the cage and the wild bird species including the famous Bird of Paradise, hornbills, and parrots. We will also see traditional monuments plus witchcraft performance at Pogla Cultural Center.

After having pack lunch we will drive up to Mt. Kuta rang to view and take photographs of various species of natural orchids. We then drive down to Rabiamul to see local cemetery, visit villages and local food gardens.  A visit to Mt. Hagen main market will conclude the tour, overnight Airport Motel.

 

Wednesday 12 September 2012   (Mt. Hagen/Tari)

Today we depart for Tari via vehicle, 5hrs scenic drive and sightseeing. We will stop in various spot for taking photograph; hiking/trekking, village visits till we reach Mendi after 2hrs or so. From Mendi we drive further up to Tari/Nipa, The drive time is about 3hrs, we do sightseeing tour until we reach Wemso Lodge.  A welcome traditional Waola sing-sing will be set up by villages to welcome the guests traveling to Wemso lodge. Wemso Lodge is built in traditional style houses using bush materials. Interior of the houses are featured with modern materials. It has both self contend rooms and share bath facilities. The lodge is powered with 12kv gen. set, 2.4vlt, powered 24hrs a day. Overnight WEMSO LODGE.

 Thursday 13 September 2012:     Tour Tari/Huli Wigman
Today after breakfast you depart for Tari/Huli villages to see the world famous Huli culture and the villagers. (The people of Tari in the Southern Highlands lived in the isolated Tari basin, 2500 meters above sea level the further most part of the Southern Highlands Province. They were oblivious to the ways of the modern world until recent times. The world is still mainly one of subsistence farming on small customarily land holdings. They are the descendants of warriors with a deserved reputation as “feared fighters”. These traditional norms are still prevalent now-a-days as you tour around in this place, despite of the rapid changes they have gone through for the last twenty years or so. At Tari/Huli village we visit huli dancers, bird watching, and nature photography, village visits, hiking/trekking, pack lunch will be provided whilst on tour, afternoon return to Wemso Lodge, dinner at the lodge and overnight.

 Friday 14 September 2012:  Mubi River canoe in Kantobo

 

 This morning we depart Wemso Lodge for Mendi airport, board on Air Niugini flight for Mendi/Port Moresby, meet by our staff/driver at Port Moresby international airport and assist transfer to hotel, overnight Gale Lodge.

Saturday 15  September:     HIRI MOALE FESTIVAL – Port Moresby

Today we depart early as 6: am to Hanuabada village for face painting and body decoration for the preparation for Hiri Moale Festival. While the traditional dressing is still in progress we will visit Hanuabada village – a

traditional stilt village mainly over the water etc. We will then proceed onto Botanical Garden and villages surrounding the city of Port Moresby. We will then drive to the Ela Beach in time for Hiri Moale Festival begins. 

Apart from the Hiri Moale Festival, there are other cultural activities within Port Moresby and this will be at Papua New Guinea University Center. You will enjoy watching the students throughout Papua New Guinea will show cast their own different cultural groups.  These all show festivals concedes country’s independence celebration day which is every year of (16th September) when Papua New Guinea becomes independence from the Australian Government.

 If time permits we will visit, half day city tour. You do half day tour of Port Moresby and surrounds. Our staff/driver will drive you to PNG National Museum. National Museum has one of the finest collections of “Primitive Art” in the world. The main exhibit contains towering house poles from Sepik Haus Tambarans (spirit house) Most Artifacts are larger carvings come from Sepik River areas. There are also pieces from other parts of the country such as Malagan masks from New Ireland. A walk through the museum will expose you to nearly all the handicrafts that are wrought in Papua New Guinea, from string bags or “bilums” to the large sailing craft that are still used by the people of the Trobriand Islands. There is also an excellent natural history collection that should not be missed

 

Sunday 16th September 2012:  Hiri Moale Festival

Your tour then proceed onto the National Parliament building which was constructed in the style of a Sepik River Haus Tambaran or Spirit House – the traditional centre of decision making at a village level. This building represents the democratic foundation of Papua New Guinea. If time permits we will precede our tour to the Bomana War Cemetery where thousands of young Australian and Papua New Guinean soldiers lie. This memorial to the Allied fallen is carefully tended and visited by many from overseas. If we can speed up our tour, we can see other highlights such as Hanuabada village – a traditional stilt village mainly over the water etc.  Overnight at Gale Lodge.

Monday 17th September 2012:   Port Moresby/International Departure flight.

Today after breakfast you will be transferred from Gale Lodge to airport for your international departure flight out of Port Moresby.  

END OF OUR ARRANGEMENT…

 

 

TWIN SHARE LAND COST IN US$ DOLLARS = US$2,820.00 per person

Land cost includes twin share accommodation, tours and transfers, meals starting from Dinner on arrival to Breakfast on the departure date, village fees, guide fees, carriers/porters, show festival entrance fees.

Land cost does not include; services of personal nature such as beverages, bar, laundry services, phone/fax/email bills, plus another other services other than those specified above.

Additional Cost to the Land cost:

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