The following links provide a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about trekking Kokoda including videos to help you plan, prepare and physically train for your pilgrimage; television programs and media articles featuring our treks; interesting historical snapshots of Papua New Guinea; our philanthropy; and some of our initiatives to assist in the development of the Kokoda Trail as a world-class pilgrimage tourism destination.
Our Treks:
- 10-Day Australian led Premium Kokoda Campaign Trek from $4,995
- 9-Day Australian led Kokoda Campaign Trek from $,4,695
- 8-Day Austrlian led Kokoda History Trek from $4,395
- 8-Day PNG Guided Trek from $3,595
- Our Trek Leaders
Our Training Videos:
- Your Physical Fitness Training Guide
- 10 Hot Tips for Trekkers
- Top 10 Tips for Women
- Selecting a Kokoda Tour Operator
- Advantages of a personal porter
- Your Kokoda trekking gear
- Trekking poles for Kokoda
- Our Kokoda Tents
- Our Kokoda Charter Flights
- Our Emergency Evacuation Plans
- Bomana War Cemetery
- Life Challenge Kokoda Trailer
Our Youth Leadership Programs:
- Charlie Lynn on Kokoda Leaderhip
- Kings School: Kokoda Mateship – Resilience – Reflection – Gratitude
- In the Footsteps of the Brave – Penrith Panthers Youth Leadership
- Kokoda Mateship Trek: Bankstown meets Cronulla
- Walking with Legends – Penrith Panthers Youth Leadership
- Channel 7: Dareing Kokoda – Punchbowl Boys High School
Our Television Programs:
- Channel 9: Angry Anderson Challenge
- Channel 9: Getaway
- EMTV: Rabaul
- Channel 7: Sydney Swans on Kokoda
- Slim Dusty’s Tribute to our Kokoda Veterans
Our Featured Newspaper Articles:
- A Hard Slog to Kokoda by Marian Frith – Canberra Times
- Walking Among Ghosts – Australian Geographic
- A Walk on the Wild Side – Bulletin with Newsweek
Papua New Guinea Snapshots:
- Before time . . .
- Port Moresby – Yesterday . . .
- As it was in 1942 . . .
- Official Name of the Kokoda Trail
- The Kokoda Trail Villager
- Apology to Kokoda Trail villagers
- Papua New Guinea: Wouldn’t it be great if . . .
- Senate Submission for Seasonal Workers from PNG
- Angels still exist in PNG
- Slim Dusty’s Tribute to our Kokoda Veterans
Military History:
- Chronology of the War in the South West Pacific
- The Kokoda Campaign
- Conflict in Command during the Kokoda campaign in 1942 – Did General Blamey deserve the blame?
Our Kokoda Philanthropy:
- Network Kokoda
- Template for the conduct of village based workshops on the Kokoda Trail
- The Kokoda Track Foundation
- Angels still exist in PNG
Our Kokoda Initiatives:
- Kokoda Day
- Kokoda Scholarship Program
- Funding Proposal for a Military Heritage Master Plan for the Kokoda Trail
- Potential & Benefits of Wartime Tourism in PNG
- Proposed Joint Agreement for Commemoration of our Shared Wartime Heritage between Australia and PNG
- A Marketing Strategy for Kokoda Pilgrimage Tourism
- A Blueprint for Kokoda Pilgrimage Tourism

Our links to the Kokoda Trail were inspired by the service of VX 414563, Private Keith Charles Lynn, a New Guinea infantry veteran who was evacuated with scrub typhus and malaria – a lethal cocktail that he survived against the odds in 1943.
His son, Major Charlie Lynn, also saw active service in Vietnam; was assigned to the ANZUK force in Singapore; and later as an exchange instructor in airborne logistics with the US Army. During this assignment he successfully completed the Special Forces Military Freefall (HALO) Parachute Course and notched up 200 tactical jumps from as high as 20,000 feet – on oxygen – at night!
He is also a graduate of the Army Command and Staff College.
Prior to Charlie first trek in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign there was no management structure in place and no mechanism for landowner communities to benefit from the few trekkers who passed by each year.
Over the next decade Charlie rediscovered some of the most significant battlesites which had been bypassed and reclaimed by the jungle. During this time he mapped the original wartime trails and published a 1:50,000 topographical map – the first of its kind since the War.
He was instrumental in establishing a PNG management authority to ensure local villagers received shared benefits from the emerging pilgrimage tourism industry.
Charlie’s company, Adventure Kokoda, has led more that 700 expeditions across the Kokoda Trail over the past 33 years – his trek leaders have a combined total of 160 years professional military experience – they have no equal as expedition leaders across the Kokoda Trail.
In 2015 Charlie was proudly inducted as an Officer of the Logohu by the PNG Government in their New Years’ Honours List, and in 2018 he was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the NSW Parliament ‘for service to the bilateral relations between Papua New Guinea and Australia and especially in the development of the Kokoda Trail and its honoured place in the history of both nations’ over the past 25 years.‘
In 2018 he was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the NSW Parliament.

















Lest We Forget
Charlie, you and Adventure Kokoda are way ahead of the other trekking companies, with a proven record of safety and service to PNG’s villagers and international trekkers alike. Consider a public letter to the PM’S of PNG and Australia asking to be appointed as Military Heritage & Tourism Advisor for PNG, with financial support from DFAT and the RSL.
Regards, Reg Yates