Things To Do
Cultural Events
Papua New Guinea’s unique and untouched culture will exceed all your expectations. In remote villages throughout Papua New Guinea you can find tribes that passionately maintain their individual heritage through their art, sing sings, dancing and initiations. Visit for example the Baining Fire Dancers near Rabaul and the Asaro Mud Men and Huli Wigmen in the Highland regions. These tribes in their traditional clothing and colourful make up love to perform and welcome visitors into their fold to learn more about the customs of their tribe.
Visits to these villages will also provide you with plenty of opportunities to see and in some instances purchase primitive art, timber carvings, masks (decorated with hair, shells, pig tusks), string bags (bilums), crafts, hand dyed Tapa cloth, woven baskets, penis gords and clay pots - and endless opportunities for fantastic, very colourful holiday shots.
If you seek a true cultural explosion of colour and sound then take the opportunity to go to one of the regular festivals: The Goroka and Mt Hagen Shows are world famous but also consider the Canoe Festival in Alotau, the Yam Festival in the Trobriand Islands or the week-long Malagan Festival in Kavieng - any one of which will provide you with an unforgettable experience of large numbers of colourful, often raucous, tribes performing en-mass (in some instances this means thousands of participants).
June
Tufi Cultural Show – Tufi Dive
July
Warwagira Provincial Cultural Show
7 - 13
Kokopo, East New Britain Prov.
16th National Mask Festival
14 - 17
Kokopo, East New Britain Prov.
Malagan Show
New Ireland Province
Shark Calling Festival
New Ireland Province
August
Enga Cultural Show
Enga, Wabag Province
Namatanai Mask Festival
Namatanai
Ambunti Crocodile Festival
11 - 12
Ambunti, East Sepik Province
September
Garamut na Mambu Festival
East Sepik Province
Hiri Moale Festival
Central Province
Goroka Show
17 - 19
Eastern Highland Prov
October
International Orchid Spectacular
Central Province
Morobe Agriculture & Cultural Show
23 - 24
Lae, Morobe Province
November
Kundu & Canoe Festival
Alotau, Milne Bay Province
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