Cultural Tours
The Morobe Show originally staged as an Agricultural show has now gained popularity and has gone into venturing with cultural displays. This has boosted the Morobe show with the number of participants, i.e. the cultural groups and the flow of international visitors.
The Papua New Guinea National Mask Festival is held in July each year and we are pleased to introduce this unique event to you all. This event is quite extraordinary as it is a little different to the other cultural festivals in the country. This event is focused on displaying the different traditional masks, their purposes and believes associated. Papua New Guinea is known for its unique cultures and traditions and as such, the masks contributed a lot to this. Masks were created in different styles, sizes and shapes, which represented different believes and the areas they represented. Most of these masks are from the coastal region and the lowlands of Papua New Guinea where traditional magic and sorcery were very common. The mask festival represents this with the venue and the traditional groups participating fulfill this. The mask festival includes groups from the New Guinea Islands, which includes Rabaul, Kavieng, and Buka, and to the North coast, which includes Madang, Wewak and the lowlands of both provinces. As colorful as the other cultural events, the mask festival displays the true tradition of the people of Papua New Guinea. This look of the masks reflects the power and strength of traditional believes and the masks were greatly honored as they represented the presences of the spirits which gave power and knowledge to perform their traditional rituals, sorcery etc. We would like to invite you to this unique festival. It’s very traditional, very emotional and the performances cannot be seen at other cultural festivals. This is a scarcer and it is displayed only once and is by all means protected by customary laws and can only be displayed in certain locations and it has to be on the coast. It is a great pleasure to invite you to this unique event. Not only you will participate in this festival but also the venue has steaming active volcanoes and is the place where it was a major battlefield over the pacific campaign during the WWII. The scenery, the people and the natural environment is very welcoming and you feel and experience of the Tolai people and their cultures. Come and join us to an experience this special event that you will not witness anywhere else in the world, an event that is very traditional. The below proposed tour packages have been specially designed to coincides with this event and give you the opportunity to witness this event.
This 11-day/10-night program is an unescorted program with the highlight being the Kundu & War Canoe Festival. As the name suggests this festival is a celebration of culture and tradition of War Canoes and inherited Kundu drums (musical instrument made from lizard or marsupial skin and special tree bark), depicting the early days before the arrival of white men, missionaries who saw these men prepared themselves and went to traditional war along the eastern tip of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The main event of this festival is a canoe race, in which competitors from all around the neighboring areas compete for prize money and fame. Some canoes have up to 50 paddlers, all competing for the glory of being the best crew. Participants in this program will get opportunity to witness for themselves and experience this wonderful program and end with a highlands safari visiting the interior parts of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
This 11-day/10-night program is an unescorted tour with the highlight being the Hiri Moale festival.
This 9-day/8-night program is an unescorted tour with the highlight being the Goroka Show. The Goroka show is a unique and fascinating cultural event featuring more than 800 tribal participants and sing sing groups from all over the country gathering to show case their erred dance rituals such as the Asaro mudmen and ethnic tribal dances. It’s a one not to be missed. Experience for yourself this spectacular event before it’s too late.
The World Famous Mt. Hagen Cultural is the event that has attracted the attention of so many around the world. It's famous, it's colorful and it's exciting. Overwhelming comments from visitors on this event has contributed towards making the show bigger and better each year. Comments such as " This is a most beautiful event" "I have never experienced such a show in my entire travel", " This is my life time experience" to quote a few.
The Mt. Hagen Cultural Show since it's inception in 1961 has been an outstanding cultural event. It does not only provide the colors and beauty of the cultural scene but it also acts as a link to the many different tribes and cultural groups in the country so they all gather together and share the many different cultures and traditions. It has also brought the neighboring tribes and provinces to come to understand one another better and create peace and harmony amongst these tribes and cultural groups. It's famous, it's fascinating and unique, and you will get the real feel of the primitive cultures of Papua New Guinea. Country Tours is pleased to accommodate you to participate in the World famous event. We have put together three (3) tour packages to include this event of which details of the itinerary is outlined below.
The Jiwaka people consist of three distinct groups of people. They are the people of Jimi, the Wahgi and Kambia people. All three groups have completely different lifestyles and traditions. The Jimi people are small in size and live in the Jimi valley bordering Madang and Western Highlands Province. The people of Kambia are on the West of Mt. Hagen sharing the boarding of Southern Highlands while the Wahgi people live in the Wahgi Valley, closely related to the people of Chimbu. Their traditions and cultures are similar to the people of Chimbu, as they live not far from each other.
This 11-day/10-night program is an unescorted tour with the highlight being the Enga Show. The people of Enga are unique ethnic group of people. The entire province of approximately 600,000 people speaks one common dialect. Because of this, they do not go out of their province and perform in other centers around the country. They only perform at their cultural show in Wabag, the provincial capital town of the Enga Province. Their cultures and traditions are intact and are very colorful.