Adventure Kokoda Blog
Protecting our heritage
Kokoda is much more than a trek. It is almost a spiritual journey for those who wish to connect to the historical significance of the Kokoda campaign. It is also an empathetic bridge for Australians and Papua New Guineans to better understand each other.
Our Charity
Our charitable work includes the provision of health support, school supplies, scholarships, and emergency medical assistance to villagers across the Kokoda Trail.
Our Media
National features stories of our treks on all major television networks, newspapers, and magazines.
Our Reviews
Trekker feedback, Trip Advisor reviews, and personal reflections.
Our Treks
Everything you need to know about our treks, our trekkers, training tips, gear selection, and some handy hints.
Our Viewpoint
Charlie has been the leading advocate for the protection of our Kokoda heritage, and the welfare of villagers across the Trail, for 30 years.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Interesting articles relating to our close association with PNG, and our shared wartime heritage.
Latest News
The Kodu Goldmine – Facts, Fallacies, and Fabrications
The illegal blockade of the Kokoda Trail without warning by a dissident group of Port Moresby based landowners has created havoc for Kokoda tourism during the peak 2024 trekking period. The blockade was designed to hold trekkers hostage to their crude ransom demands...
Our Kokoda Pilgrimage Treks
Guided heritage treks, Student Teacher Parent treks, Historical treks tailored to suit school curriculum, Youth leadership treks. “We have no doubt we are now invincible. We have plummeted to our worst lows and soared to our greatest heights. There is nothing physically or emotionally we cannot endure.
Wayne Wetherall – Kokoda Spirit Alert!
This paper exposes the evolution of Wayne Wetherall’s carefully crafted transition from an unknown suburban salesman without any military credentials to a self-proclaimed 'world athletics champion', 'explorer', 'adventurer', ' historian', and 'philanthropist. It's a...
KTF Strategy for the Development of Pilgrimage Tourism Across the Kokoda Trail
If Canberra had engaged with the Kokoda Track Foundation (KTF) when Frontier Resources announced the opening of their $8 million goldmine near the Kokoda Trail in the mid-1990s the outcome for village communities and our shared wartime heritage would have been...
Papua New Guinea – A Place of Pilgrimage
The Kokoda Trail ‘Just a day’s travel from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and you can be on the Kokoda Trail. ‘At the foot of the Owen Stanley Ranges in Papua New Guinea you can look into the ancient landscape - majestic peaceful wilderness, nature in its full glory. ‘...
Australia’s ‘PNG Angels’ prove the philanthropic potential of Kokoda Tourism
'Covid exposed the failure of DFAT-Kokoda Initiative environment officials to establish a philanthropic trust to support traditional landowner communities across the trail - so when the pandemic hit they were simply relocated to the security of their surrounds in...