🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
Extraordinarily diverse and genuinely off-grid: over 800 languages, challenging roads, expensive domestic flights and occasional tribal tension — rewarding for patient, experienced travellers.
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea at a glance
Extraordinarily diverse and genuinely off-grid: over 800 languages, challenging roads, expensive domestic flights and occasional tribal tension — rewarding for patient, experienced travellers.
Experienced travellers chasing cultures and wilderness few reach.
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When to go to Papua New Guinea
What the season feels like
May to October's dry season makes highland trekking and festival travel far easier than the wet months.
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What Papua New Guinea is known for
- Kokoda Track battlefield trek
- Mount Hagen cultural show
- Sepik River art villages
Destinations in Papua New Guinea
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