PAPUA NEW GUINEA Archives - Adventure Kokoda Blog

Kokoda ‘Track-Trail’ Debate: Who Owns the Naming Rights?

by Charlie | Jan 3, 2021 | ADVENTURE KOKODA, OUR VIEWPOINT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 0

Australia’s preference for the politically correct term ‘Kokoda Track’ in preference to PNGs official name ‘Kokoda Trail’ is a patronising breach of international protocol towards – our closest neighbour, former mandated territory, fellow Commonwealth member and wartime ally.

Apology to Kokoda Trail Villagers

by Charlie | Dec 23, 2019 | KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, OUR VIEWPOINT | 0

‘Olgeta,

‘We met 31 years ago when you welcomed me into your villages on my first trek with Alex Rama in 1991. At the time you told me that few people trekked across the Trail – less than 100 each year – and you only made a few kina selling your vegetables at markets. . . .

What our trekkers think of their PNG guides and carriers

by Charlie | Nov 13, 2019 | KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, OUR TREKS | 0

‘I cannot say enough kind words about them. Throughout the entire trek I felt supported and...

OWERS CORNER: How to convert a memorial junkyard into PNGs No 1 Tourism Asset

by Charlie | Nov 26, 2018 | KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, OUR VIEWPOINT | 3

Air Niugini’s Paradise magazine describes a visit to Ower’s Corner, where ‘the road becomes a footpath that connects the start of the Kokoda Trail . . . just an hour and a half from downtown Port Moresby’.Visitors who make the...

Case for a Visitor’s Centre at Owers Corner

by Charlie | Jun 6, 2016 | KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, MILITARY HERITAGE, OUR VIEWPOINT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 0

Presentation by Charlie Lynn at the ‘Future Cities Conference’ hosted by the PNG Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Brisbane on the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign

RIP: Faole Bokoi – Menari Village

by Charlie | Mar 6, 2016 | KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, OUR VIEWPOINT | 4

Trekking Kokoda will never be the same without the presence of distinguished elder, Faole Bokoi,...

RIP: Sergeant Ben Moide CBE

by Charlie | Dec 30, 2013 | KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS | 6

We were saddened to learn today (30 December 2013) of Sergeant Ben Moide’s passing in Port Moresby. However we will be eternally grateful that Ben’s heroic story has been captured by Mr Lahui Ako in his book ‘Nameless Warriors’...

Kokoda comes to Sydney . . .

by Charlie | Dec 29, 2013 | KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, MARKETING KOKODA, OUR MEDIA | 0

Kokoda was represented at the highest level recently when the Governor or Oro Province, Gary Juffa...

Potential & Benefits of Wartime tourism in Papua New Guinea

by Charlie | Oct 19, 2011 | CHARLIE'S SPEECHES, OUR VIEWPOINT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 0

Seventy years after the war in the Pacific the Kokoda Trail has become a gateway for a wartime...

The Kokoda Trail Villager

by Charlie | May 18, 2009 | KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, OUR VIEWPOINT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 13

First impressions of Koiari and Orokaiva villages along the Kokoda Trail give little hint of the complex relationships that exist within. The simple life of building, gardening, cooking, nurturing, teaching and healing is underpinned by the complexities of clan relationships and the influence of missionary pastors, traditional lululais’ and sorcerers.