 Day
01 : Arrival Jayapura – Wamena
Upon arrival at Sentani Airport catch Trigana
flight to Wamena at noon. After lunch (Lunch Box)
visit villages around Wamena including traditional
market and back to hotel overnight at The Baliem
Valley Resort. Dinner at the Resort. |
 Day
02 : Hotel – Kurima - Hotel
After breakfast at hotel drive to Sogokmo (35
minutes) then start to have a day trekking passing
some sweet potato fields and enjoy the gorgeous
scenery surroundings. You will get to Kurima,
the Sub District of the tribe and along the trail
you will meet the local people with friendly smiles
in their traditional clothes. After picnic lunch,
heading back to Sogokmo where the cars pick you
up for Wamena. Dinner and overnight at The Baliem
Valley Resort. |
 Day
03 : Saltspring – Kurulu – Mummy Dani
Hamlet
In the morning one hour drive to Jiwika in the
central Baliem-Valley. Start of a one hour-long
walking-tour uphill (about 300 m height) trough
a beautiful mountain-rainforest to the traditional
salt spring of a Dani clan. Native women in traditional
costumes accompany us. They will demonstrate the
old way of the salt production. After the relegation
we have lunch on the mountains base. After lunch
we walk to the close Kurulu hamlet, where a very
old mummy of the famous Dugum clan can be admired.
Afterwards the women show us how the brought brine
is processed. In the neighbourhood we see more
picturesque hamlets. Everywhere the friendly natives
offer their arts and crafts, weapons and curiosities.
In the afternoon drive back to the Resort dinner
and overnight at The Baliem Valley Resort. |
 Day
04 : Hotel – Jiwika - Hotel
Afetr breakfast leaving the Resort for a full-day
traditional pig-festival in a Dani Village. Your
chance to see a full ceremony and take pictures
from each event. The traditional pig cooking with
hot stones is one of the most interesting events
on the highland of Irian Jaya. |
 Day
05 : Wamena - Jayapura
After breakfast at hotel, leaving for Wamena Airport
to get Trigana 1st Flight to Jayapura. The flight
takes about 50 minutes and at Sentani Airport
you will be picked up and checked in at Sentani
Indah Hotel. You may have a full day sightseeing
tour including Mac Arthur 2nd Worl War Monument,
Sentani Lake and its small islands, museum, and
Hamadi Market. Lunch served at a restaurant by
the lake. Back to hotel late in the afternoon.
Dinner and overnight at Sentani Indah Hotel |
