Papua Trekking Tour - Papua, Indonesia
Trekking to Yahukimo, Dekai, Mabul, Yaniruma, Korowai, Kombai, Dayo, Dabol, Ayan, Basman, Senggo, Achi, Jou, Amboref, and finally to the Asmat tribe to see the tree people and their houses. To reach these villages the tour is not as easy as other low land areas in Papua. The walk quite difficult, so previous experience of trecking is needed. However, there are no high mountains or hills. We will be walking in low land areas, which of course are muddy and slippery, and mostly wild jungle. You will need to bring walking Shoes, Socks, Sun block, Hat, Mosquitoes repellent and of course your Camera. Your heavy Pack backs, Food, and another luggage are Travel Agent staff responsibility.
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*OPTION 1*
Attraction : COMBINATION PROGRAM BALIEM VALLEY AND - TREE HOUSE TRIBE
Duration : 15 DAYS – 14 NIGHTS
Tour area : Jayapura - Wamena
Grade : Hard Expedition (Charter flights)
Start - End : Jayapura
DAY 01 : Jayapura Arrival - Wamena (L,D)
- Arrive at Sentani airport of Jayapura, meet by guide, then catch Trigana flight to Wamena.
- Upon arrival at Wamena airport , transfer to Baliem Pilamo hotel for a short briefing by guide about the tour and trekking.
- After lunch, touring around Wamena town and market and villages surrounding.
- Afternoon back to hotel for dinner and stay overnight.
DAY 02 : Wamena - Kurima - Kilise( B,L,D )
- Breakfast at hotel, then by car to Kurima then trek to Kilise.
- Today we hike up and down, the trail is steep and could be very sleeper if it is rains.
- The first 2 hours hike to the village of Kilise is through the steep sweet potato garden near the Baliem river, but the scenery is spectacular. In Kilise village we explore the village nearby and visit their local houses.
- Our accommodation is at a local traditional guesthouse.
DAY 03. Kilise – Tangma (BLD)
- Breakfast at guest house.
- Trek up the hills then walking trough the dani gardens to get to Tangma village, another 1.5 hours trek through a small forest down to Tangma village.
- Explore the village and it's community.
- Provided lunch serve at the teacher house where we overnight stay.
- The rest is the day is spend to explore and experience more about the local people daily life
activities.
DAY 04. Tangma – Wanem (BLD)
- From Tangma from bottom of small valley.
- We hike about 2.5 hours up to the village of Wanem and enjy the beautiful panoramic of the baliem gorge.
- Arrive in Wanem, lunch will be provided by our cook while we walk to the houses closed by to the compound.
- Afternoon we walk around about an hour to another village and view more of the dani daily life activities.
- Dinner and overnight at the local house.
DAY 05: Wenem - Kurima - Jiwika ( B,L,D )
- From Wanem village in the southern of Baliem Gorge, we hike down 1.5 hours to Kurima.
- The still traditional Dani village are very close and can be briefly explore during the hike to Kurima. The local people life and tradition remain unchanged here, and the sophisticate agriculture system has
been practiced along time ago. - Arrive in Kurima by noon, we drive 1.5 hours to Jiwika in the north of the valley via the town of Wamena.
- Lunch at a local restaurant in the town.
- Afternoon we may walk and visit the Dani villages near Jiwika, including the 250 years old mummy at sumpaima village and view the Dani Pig feast and dance in the village of Anemoigi.
- Accomodation at Lauk Inn ( a very basic tourist accommodation ).
DAY 06: Jiwika Pig Feast - Wamena ( B,L,D )
- After breakfast we hike 1 hour up to Iluerainma to see the Dani make salt by soak banan stalks into the brines pool, dry and carry them home.
- Lunch today is in the village of Anemoigi where we can view the Dani Mock battle and Pig feast.
- We will see how the Dani make fire traditionally, kill a pig with bow and arrow and cook them into the hot-burned stone with vegetable and sweet potatoes.
- Late afternoon we drive 40 minutes back to wamena.
- Dinner at local restaurant in town, accommodation at Baliem Pilamo hotel.
DAY 07. Wamena – Yaniruma (BLD)
- Breakfast at hotel, on it's time transfer to Wamena airport to catch the charter flight to Yaniruma for 1 hour. (Yaniruma is the starting point to see the Koroway tribe).
- Up on arrive walk out to the Mission house for our accommodation.
- Today is the time to arrange everything before we start our adventure, porters and canoe. After lunch walk around the village and swim to the river.
- Dinner and stay at Mission house.
DAY 08. Yaniruma – Koroway (BLD)
- Breakfast, prepare all the stuff and walking to the Sokom river on board the local paddle canoe to cross the Backing Dairam river.
- Start our adventure by walking through the dense jungle, swampy, and we sometime walking up the single log. Our porter will free their hand to help you in the hard or difficult trail.
- After 4-5 hours walking we arrive the first Koroway camp (where some Koroway tribes life). The Koroway tribes live in the jungle only with their family or relatives, as they never stay in one big compound. We can found 2 or 3 Tree house in one camp only. Caused they are nomad peoples and they never life for such a long time in the one places, they have to moved to one and another places to get more food and animals to be hunt.
- We will stay with Koroway in their bevak or we build a tent or up the tree house if permitted.
DAY 09. Koroway Exploration (BLD)
- After Breakfast.
- Today we will join with Koroway tribe to their Sago field to gathering the Palm tree and process for their main food.
- Lunch will be provide by boxes in the jungle.
- Walking to the deeper to explore the tribes and vicinity.
- Late afternoon return to our camp for dinner and stay overnight.
DAY 10. Koroway Exploration (BLD)
- Breakfast at camp.
- We move to find another Koroway camp by walking to the deeper jungle.
- In this, we deal through our translator with Koroway tribe to show us how to built their tree house and to find the fish in the small river.
- Lunch will serve by boxes. Dinner and stay at Bevak or tent.
DAY 11. Koroway Exploration (BLD)
- Breakfast at Bevak or camp.
- Today remind with korowai tribes how the hunter make a traps for Pig or Cassuary, etc.
- Lunch will be provided, late afternoon return to your accommodations.
DAY 12. Koroway – Yaniruma (BLD)
- Breakfast, walking back to Yaniruma for about 5-6 hours, lunch will serve by boxes en route.
- Before we arrive in Yaniruma we will stop at the river for a fresh swim and clean up our body from the muddy.
- Afternoon arrive in Yaniruma, dinner and stay at Mission house.
DAY 13. Yaniruma – Wamena (BLD)
- Breakfast guest house.
- Walking to the airstrip at Yaniruma, then fly on charter mission flight to Wamena on it's time.
- Up on arrive transfer to Baliem Pilamo hotel for check in.
- After lunch at hotel, free program or you may walking around the town.
- Dinner and stay at hotel.
DAY 14. Wamena – Jayapura (BLD)
- Today you will fly to Jayapura on Trigana flight, arrive in Sentani air port and touring the city.
- We will visit Mc. Arthur Monument of WW II up hill of Ifar Gunung then drive down to Sentani lake where you take a boat to visit the village of Assey.
- After lunch at Youqwa restaurant in the side of the lake, continue drive to the direction of Jayapura.
- Overnight at Sentani Indah hotel with dinner.
DAY 15. Jayapura – Departure (B)
- Breakfast transfer to the airport for fly to next destinations..
Ends of our service
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*OPTION 2*
Attraction : Dekai & Koroway Batu Expedition
Duration : 15 Days / 14 Nights
Tour area : Jayapura - Wamena
Grade : Hard Expedition (without charter flight)
Start - End : Jayapura
DAY 01 : Jayapura Aarrival - Wamena (L,D)
- Arrive at Sentani airport of Jayapura, meet by guide, then catch Trigana flight to Wamena at 10.00am, 12.00.
- Upon arrival at Wamena airport , transfer to Baliem Pilamo hotel for a short briefing by guide about the tour and trekking.
- After lunch, touring around Wamena town and market and villages surrounding.
- Afternoon back to hotel for dinner and stay overnight
Day 02 : Wamena – Dekai (B.L.D)
- Transfer to the Airport for catching regular flight to Dekai.
- Depend on weather, the plane may be delay cause bad weather. Make more preparation in Dekai for the next day by charter motorized canoe.
- Rest of the day you may walk around Dekai villages to explore Dekai Tribe.
- Lunch and dinner will be provided by our cook.
Day 03-Day.04 : Dekai – Senggo – Yaniruma (B.L.D)
- 2 days use motorized canoe for sailing from Dekai to Yaniruma.
- We may stop at some villages for taking a rest and overnight in Senggo.
- On Day 4 you will arrive in Yaniruma as a home base of Koroway people.
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided. Overnight at local houses or at tents.
DAY 05,06,07,08,09: Koroway Adventure (B,L,D)
- We will spend these 05 days trekking is some of the most pristine lowland rain forest in the world.
- Along the way we will try and stay with the various tribes those inhabit the region.
- The Korowai are more territorial than the neighboring Kombai.
- Breakfast, prepare all the stuff and walking to the Sokom river on board the local paddle canoe to cross the Backing Dairam river.
- Start our adventure by walking through the dense jungle, swampy, and we sometime walking up the single log. Our porter will free their hand to help you in the hard or difficult trail.
- After 4-5 hours walking we arrive the first Koroway camp (where some Koroway tribes life). The Koroway tribes live in the jungle only with their family or relatives, as they never stay in one big compound. We can found 2 or 3 Tree house in one camp only. Due to life style is semi nomad peoples, they never life for such a long time in the one places, they have to moved to one and another places to get more food and animals to be hunt.
- We will stay with Koroway in their bevak or we build a tent or up the tree house if permitted
Day 10: Hamlet – Yaniruma (B.L.D)
- We will trek back to Yaniruma .Stop over at Dairam Kabur before we arrive in Yaniruma river for fresh swim and clean up our dirty bodies from the mud.
- Afternoon arrive in Yaniruma, dinner and overnight missionary house or local houses.
Day 11-Day 12 : Yaniruma – Senggo – Dekai (B.L.D)
- Return by Motorized canoe sailing back for 2 days from Yaniruma to Dekai.
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner are provided, overnight at local houses or at
tents.
DAY 13 : Dekai – Wamena (B,L,D)
- By regular flight to Wamena.
- Arrive in Wamena airport transfer by car directly to the Hotel.
- Lunch, dinner and overnight at Hotel .
DAY 14: Wamena – Jiwika (Pig feast) - Wamena (B.L.D)
- Breakfast at hotel
- Drive to the northern part of Baliem valley to a village that well known with its old smoked MUMMY.
- You will enjoy local performance such as MOCK WAR and traditional earth oven cooking. You can
interact with the local Dani people and learn about their way of life. - Lunch will serve with local sweet potatoes and grill pork or others.
- On the way back to hotel we will have stop at the traditional market of Wamena.
- Dinner will be served at a local restaurant.
Day 15: Wamena - Jayapura – Departure (B)
- Breakfast at hotel, transfer to the airport for your flight by Trigana ETD 07:00 leaving for Jayapura.
- Upon your arrival at Sentani airport of Jayapura, onward flight for the next destinations.
- End Of service.
*The Program/itinerary above is flexible, depend on local conditions,
flights, weather, and etc……………
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