Mt. Hagen show is an annual event where different ethnical groups come together to celebrate and showcase their deep rooted traditions and cultures. Normally the show is held on the third weekend of August for two days, more than 80 different groups throughout PNG perform.
Day 1. Wednesday
Arrival in Mt Hagen and pick up from the Kagamuga Airport. After check in at the hotel, we tour Mt Hagen Town, main market and we travel to nearby villages and mountains for site seeing until afternoon.
Day 2. Thursday
We go to Point Village, we arrange festival for our clients, and more than 10 groups performs traditional singsings. Tourists who are willing to singsing with the locals are traditional dressed and face painted and singsing with the locals. We also arrange feast for lunch for the tourists, killing pig slaughtering and cooking in a pit with garden foods and chickens with hot stones called Mumu. We enjoy feast meal with locals.
Day 3. Friday
We go to Paiya show or Trans Niugini show. After the show in the afternoon, we visit tea/coffee plantations and factories to see how they process them.
Day 4. Saturday
After breakfast, we go early to the show ground to see preparations part of the festival before the main festival all day and return to the hotel in the afternoon.
Day 5. Sunday
We go again for the second day Show. We will also witness mass dance called waipa in pidgin after the main festival in the afternoon.
Day 6. Monday
Farewell at the airport and travel back to Port Moresby.
We also provide additional Highlands Hi-way tours. Those who interested, we continue travel to Jiwaka Province then to Chimbu Province, In Chimbu we see the skeleton people and continue to Goroka and see Asaro Mudmen and JK Macarthy Museum and overnight in Goroka.
Day 7. Tuesday
We continue travel to Lae city and visit war cemetery, botanical garden and Lae unitech Habitat and see different species of animals and overnight in hotel in Lae.
Day 8. Wednesday
End of PNG tour, travel back to Port Moresby from Nadzap Airport.
