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
EXCRUCIATING, gruelling, torturous, gut-wrenching
by Sally McMillan - The Sunday Telegraph Sally McMillan from the Sunday Telegraph reports 'Trekking the Kokoda Trail is all of the above - and more'.The cloying jungle seeps into you, radiating waves of body heat. The air is fetid, the dense canopy enveloping - at...
The Kokoda Trail Villager
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.
The Kokoda Trekker
Australian Kokoda trekkers are the basic building block of Papua New Guinea’s most popular tourist destination. They are also the most neglected! Any business, industry or service provider who dared treat their customers with as much contempt as the Kokoda trekker...
CHAPTER 13: Australia takes control of Kokoda Tourism
The Rise, Fall and Future of Kokoda Tourism
It takes awhile to get to know Papua New Guinea – in the early 1990s it was not the place to be.
The nation’s capital was encased in razor-wire. Nightly curfews were imposed. Political observers were writing it off as a failed state – part of an arc of instability to our immediate north. Australia made it difficult for Papua New Guineans to obtain visitor’s visas and it was almost impossible for them to be involved in our seasonal work program.
CHAPTER 14: Official Naming Rights – ‘Kokoda Trail’ or ‘Kokoda Track’
The term ‘Kokoda Trail’ was recommended by the PNG Place Names Committee in the lead-up to Independence in 1972.
The recommendation was accepted and gazetted by the PNG Government on 12 October 1972.
For reasons unknown, the Australian Government refuses to recognise PNGs sovereign right to name their own geographic features – they prefer to use their own politically correct term, ‘Kokoda Track’.
This is a rejection of PNGs sovereign right to name their geographic features’.
Let’s not forget the villagers along Kokoda?
A post by Sandy Lawson 'In 2006, because tourist numbers on the Kokoda Track were rising rapidly, I outlined (on invitation) a proposal to animate community development. 'Based on local agriculture, it recognised that for tourism to be sustainable and welcome, it must...