Kokoda Trail Expeditions

This year, Kokoda Trail Expeditions will have invested A$12,000.00 in equipment procurement for its treks and tours in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This is part of its on-going commitment to its clients to provide an efficient and reliable service on the Kokoda track and at Buna, Gona and Sanananda in PNG. These include the purchase of brand new 60-75 litre backpacks for the porterage of food, water and equipment, two-men dome tents for its trekkers, guides and porters, uniforms for its staff, and shirts and caps for its clients, The company has so far spent about A$10,000.00  with an additional A$2,000.00 to go torwards acquiring additional First Aid kits and state-of-the-art satellite phones.

Kokoda Trail Expeditions has nominated and enrolled its key staff mainly guides and porters namely Mr Kevin Ibara, Mr Johnson Ibara and Mr Eremas to complete First Aid courses in Emergency/Basic and Wilderness/Remote First Aid in Port Moresby in February. These courses will be held from 7th-9th February and 27th-29th February and will be conducted under the auspices of the Kokoda Track Authority. These courses will enable our staff to have the neccessary proficiencies and skills to administer First Aid to our clients and staff in the event of a medical emergency during our treks and tours on the Kokoda track or in the Buna, Gona or Sanananda areas of Papua New Guinea.

These are just some of our Kokoda Trail treks for 2012. You can join either of them, choose from the list of trek and tour dates on our website, or ask us for a customised trek or tour if you have your own dates in mind:

1. T93 (16/03/12 - 24/03/12), Owers Corner to Kokoda, bookings open, confirmed;
2. AT91 (17/04/12 - 25/04/12), Kokoda to Owers Corner, bookings open, tentative;
3. Kokoda Short Tour (23/04/12 - 27/04/12), Port Moresby, Popondetta & Gona, non-trek, bookings open, tentative;
   
4. AT92 (23/04/12 - 01/05/12), Owers Corner to Kokoda (Amended from AT93), bookings open, confirmed; and
5. T911 (08/08/12 - 16/08/12), Owers Corner to Kokoda, bookings open, confirmed.

You can book your trek or tour with us in numerous ways: Pay online using your credit card using our secure online payment gateway or offline using bank transfer, Internet banking or cheque. To book offline, send us a booking request on our website with details of your trek or tour  and we will get back to you within the next 24 hours.

Booking next years trek is easy here at Kokoda Trail Expeditions. You can do this to enable you to begin your preparations for your trek and not let other things get in the way. Some of us like to get things done early so we don’t have to worry about it. This is made possible for you with the introduction of two sets of trek and tour dates - one for this year and another for the following year so you can book now or in the future. This is to help you and make life a lot less stressful.

We have a couple of mates setting off on a 9  days trek from 16 Mar - 24 Mar 2012 (Owers Corner - Kokoda). Contact us to join them.