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We are a group of local tour guides in central Papua with extensive experience and knowledge about trekking in the Baliem Valley . We offer tailor made treks to various tribes in the region and guarantee a lifelong memory and unique experiences. If you are interested in a short trip and introduction to the Baliem Valley culture or in a multi-day-trekking far out to the valley and the more remote villages, we can serve what you need is guaranteed. Website: Trek Papua Tours and Travel Contact us: If you are interested in a trekking tour, information about the Baliem Valley-Dani, Yali, Lanny or coastal area of the West-Papua, Indonesia or if you want to work with me as a guide (our team of porters, cooks, assistant guides,  etc) Just get into contact. Feel free to keep in touch with: TREK-PAPUA TOURS AND TRAVEL.,LTD Office Address: Jl. Yahim, BTN Joko Indah, Block H14-Sentani, Jayapura-Papua.  Cell phone: +62 81247628708. If you wish to contact m...

Length 08 Days / 07 Nights Koroway Tribe Start / Finish Jayapura Airport Condition Real Adventure Tour code TP – 16 DAY 01: JAYAPURA ARRIVAL – CONNECTING TO WAMENA (B,L,D) Upon arrive at Sentani airport of Jayapura, meeting service and then take the Trigana 2nd flight to Wamena around 11.00. On arrive at Wamena airport, transfer to your hotel, then proceed to visiting Dani villages and scenery from Napua hill, drive down to the town for having lunch. After lunch drive to northern part of Baliem valley to Anemoigi village to enjoy a local performance such as mock war and traditional earth oven cooking. You can be interacted with local Dani people and learn about their way of life. Late afternoon back to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.   DAY 02: WAMENA – YANIRUMA – DAMBOL (B,L,D) Depart by charter flight to Yaniruma. The flight usually need about 45 minutes one way. Upon arrival at Yaniruma (Yaniruma is the starting point to see the tree ...

Key Information                      : Into The Wild: Western New Guinea, Papua-Melanesia Tour Duration                         : 4 day (s) Group Size                                : 1 people Destination(s)                           : Baliem valley,West-Papua     Specialty Categories                  : Cultural tour, beaten trekking Season           ...

Brief information: Crossing the river you don’t need to bring you your heavy back pack. You just bring some entrance fee, one copy of travel permit/surat jalan, your camera, sun block, hats, and don’t forget to wear your shoes because some places are slippery and muddy. One guide, one porter to bring lunch box (s) if you are in group. What you are going see? This full day tour featuring Wosilimo to see most exciting and two kilometers cave which is called Gua Kontilola. The deeper the most darker, but no worries, there are lighters along the path. While walking, you will Kontilola cave-wosilimosee so many cave bats are hanging on the wall after you passed one kilo meter. Here is one of the exiting places to see and the other some local huts out of it. It continues to Kurulu district to see the 250 years old Mummy. After take some photos, you’ll cross 250 meters, to see the chief called nopase Yali with his compound. He’s one of chief who has 11 wives. The more information; you w...

The Lani are – like their neighbors, the Dani - experienced farmers and are using a highly sophisticated irrigation system to produce mainly Sweet Potatoes, Tobacco, Beans, Taro, Spinach, Sugar Cane and Bananas. Their villages in a beautiful surrounding southeast of Wamena are larger than the small compounds of the Dani and the Yali. The Lani men, who are more stubby than the Dani, wear thick kotekas (penis gourds), which also serve as a “handbag”, a case for tobacco and valuables. Men sometimes wear hairnets, but the Lani extensively use bird feathers as decoration. Quite often a feather crown is worn even when the men are dressed in western clothes.The women wear short grass skirts, but like everywhere in the valley tend to wear western clothes more and more today. Like their Dani and Yali neighbors, the women carry everything – like vegetables, small pigs and even their small children – in net-bags across their backs. Lanis inhabit a smaller part of the Baliem valley, but this is...

The Dani people live in the middle of the large mysterious Baliem Valley. The Dani tribe called themselves as Ahamua people. Long time ago until today, the Dani people bartering business among them or with other tribes in the highland areas. Now Pig barter is still found among them and they still keep their traditions upright until today. For instance you can still find the huts shape, penis gourds for that wearing by the men and Sali/Yokal for women. Additionally, the Dani tribe still keeps the folklore, folk songs, and Stone Axes, traditional balsam or Cassowary bones as a gun that was used to kill their enemies before. Stone knives are still used in the most remote areas of the Baliem Valley even thought it’s kept in the huts. If you want to know more about the Dani, visit us on the cultural festival in Dani Baliem Valley at 10-17th of August or September every year. Here are the Dani people activities: For more, visit us! https://trek-papua.com/