Sepik River Cruise Value Tour (Best Overall Sampler & Budget Trip)

This is the way to go if you want to experience the cradle of languages and original cultures without burning the bank to the max extent possible. It is no frills, but all thrills, and chalk full of experiences and exposure. It does not whatsoever include flights not is it subject to any discounts, but it is the best value and priced trip of the Sepik River, online or in the country or in the world, period.

ITINERARY - BASIC AND STRAIGHTFORWARD - SIT BACK AND ENJOY!

DAY 1:

You will be picked up at Wewak airport and will transfer straight to New Wewak Hotel and will check in there and rest. Inside and downstream lies your odyssey into the last frontier of humanity, the most untouched reach of the earth by modernity, and the cradle of hundreds of different languages. 1146 km long, the Sepik is one of the planet's greatest and most epic river journeys. Vivified in the minds and museums of the world, this prism of fantastic stratified culture up and down an enormous geographic area ranges through hundreds of different and distinct languages and cultures, many still a mystery as to how they got there and why they became so unique. This is where your cultural buffet begins.

DAY 2:

Today you leave Wewak, formerly one of the largest Japanese airbases in the Pacific, and set out towards the Middle Sepik, across countless tribes, cultures, villages, mountains, jungles, and lowlands wildlife and birds circling in the trees alongside and above you. After breakfast in the morning at 8am, you will check out from your hotel and will drive out for Pagwii which will take about 5 hours by car from Wewak and will be dropped off there at Sanagara guest house and you will check in there. After checking in you will do Canoe tour over the Sepik River and visit "crocodile central" and will cruise back to your guest house for rest and dinner.

DAY 3:

Early after breakfast at 8am, you will check out from Sanagara guest house and will do a canoe tour, and will be dropped off at Abunti guest house. After checking in, you will be guided out for a cultural tour and see a traditional singsing (ceremony) and dancing there at Ambunti, and will return to your guest house for rest and dinner. 

DAY 4:

Today we travel to Kemenabit village, floating frozen in time and tens of thousands of years in the past, down the river. Relax, meet the local boatmen and riverside villagers, and prepare for your voyage ahead. After breakfast in the morning at 7am, you will check out from your hotel and will do Canoe tours with guide and security, and you will cruise down the Sepik river downstream to Kamnabit which will take about 5 – 6 hours from Abunti by Motor canoe and will be dropped off there for rest and dinner. 

DAY 5:

In the morning after breakfast at 7am, you will check out from Kamnabit guest house and do canoe tours through Chambri Lake. Drift past riverlife frozen in time from the stone age. Arrive at Chabri Lake where the full grandeur of PNG unfolds. Countless birds and fish and wildlife, and “Spirit Houses” (Tambaran), with a backdrop of deep green rainforest and misty cloud drenched mountains. See real village life in the last place touched by modernity in history, the last first contacts. You will continue on back to Pagwii and will check in at Sanagara guest house to rest for dinner.

DAY 6:

After breakfast at 8am, you will check out from Sanagara guest house and will be picked up from there and will drive overland back to Wewak on the opposite side of the route, and check in at the New Wewak Hotel and will rest for dinner and relax with a view over the river mouth to the Pacific and the edge of PNG. 

DAY 7:

After breakfast at 7am, you will check out from your hotel and will drive out with guides to check in at the airport for your flight to Moresby and/or onward.

END OF SERVICES

Includes:

- Land and water transfers as mentioned in the program

- Guides

- Security and porters as mentioned in the program

- Accommodation (Normal guest house with shared facilities like bathrooms and toilets)

- Meals as mentioned in the program (3 meals a day except on day 1 and 7)

Does not include:

- Air tickets (any)

- Personal expenses

- Drinks

- Laundry services

- Visas

- Insurances (mandatory to bring, show, and prove to participate)

*Photo credit for tattoo photo: The one and only awesome alison wright - by far our favorite photos of the Sepik! 

**Note that if the route or conditions change, as can happen with weather or area safety concerns, the team will ensure you still get to see and do as many activities as possible.