Check List
Use the following check-list to start scheduling and preparing for your Kokoda Trail trek. For more information please contact one of our Kokoda Trail specialists at 043 848 3789 or email us.
- Get medical clearance from your doctor and discuss medication and vaccinations
- Book your trek with Kokoda Trail Expeditions and finalize a departure date
- Purchase your international airline tickets to Port Moresby (POM)
- Make sure your passport is still valid and renew if not
- Arrange your tourist visa for entry into Papua New Guinea
- Arrange travel insurance with QBE Insurance or the like
- Fill any necessary prescriptions such as anti-malarial medication
- Purchase a backpack, light-weight sleeping bag, hydration pack and anything else you need to bring along on your trek from a local outdoor store
Packing List
- Documents and money
- Valid passport
- PNG entry visa
- Roundtrip airline tickets
- Medical certificate
- Travel insurance certificate
- Medicare card
- Credit cards and cash (Papua New Guinean currency is the Kina)
Gear
- Backpack
- Daypack (if hiring a personal porter)
- Ground foam/mat
- Light-weight sleeping bag
- Hydration pack and/or water bottle
- Metal hiking poles (you have the option of bringing two or one)
- Durable waterproof bags or plastic garbage bags (to keep gear dry)
- Digital camera and batteries
- Headlamp, Torch and extra batteries
Clothing
- Good walking boots that you have been training in (no new boots)
- Four pairs of socks (two alternate sets for trekking, one cold weather pair and another warm, dry pair for cold nights)
- Water shoes/ adventure-style sandals
- Long cotton pants or equivalent and long shirt (for night time)
- Light jumper or rain jacket
- Shirts for trekking
- Walking shorts or walking pants
- Light rain jacket
- Comfortable underwear / bras
- Gaiters (optional)
- Hat / cap / bandana
- Microfiber towels
Personal First Aid Kit/Toiletries
- Medications as prescribed by your doctor (anti malaria, antibiotics for wounds and infections, anti inflammatory, anti vomiting, epi-pen etc…)
- Gastrolyte (must have)
- Endura Powder (available from chemists)
- Headache tablets
- Strong pain relief
- Diarrhoea tablets
- Travel calm tablets
- Anti-inflammatory medications (eg. Ibrofen, Voltaren, Nurofen)
- Antihistamines (e.g. Telfast, Phenergan 10mg)
- Multivitamins / B1 Tablets (start a couple of weeks prior to trek)
- Antibacterial hand gel (e.g. Aqium)
- Blister pads (optional)
- Roll of strapping tape
- Vaseline (for blisters/chafing)
- Large size band-aids (Elastoplast)
- Knee and/or ankle guards
- Foot fungi powder (Johnson Baby Powder works well)
- Antiseptic lotion/cream
- Papaw ointment
- Hydrocortisone Cream (for bites)
- Cotton wool balls
- Insect repellent roll-on / cream (‘Bushman Plus’ is the best)
- Water purification tablets (highly recommend)
- Sunscreen (always keep it on)
- Salt tablets
- Glucose jelly beans or Glucose lollies
- Glucodin tablets
- Toiletries and small personal items
If you’re trekking with others in your group a great idea is to split the load of carrying medical and personal items among several packs. You should keep the weight of your backpack to an absolute minimum and 12kg is the recommended maximum weight you should carry. Your allocated group porter will carry up to 8kg of your gear and we recommend hiring a personal porter to carry your backpack for you if you think you may have problems carrying your backpack for the entire trek.
Kokoda Trail Expeditions provides: A two-men dome tent for each trekker and this is carried by your group porter.
After booking your trek Kokoda Trail Expeditions will provide a more detailed packing/gear list. For more information or if you have any questions please contact one of our Kokoda Trail specialists at 043 848 3789 or info@kokodatrailexpeditions.com.au.
