Looking for a good quality tour company to Papua New Guinea? Has anyone attended the Sing Sing in Mt Hagen in August? Would welcome any information and experiences.

Well, I might just be able to help you here. As a matter of fact, I'm just finishing off a PNG story right now. But first, you have to tell me how long and how much. PNG is <i>ferociously</i> expensive for shoody services. It also provides, without doubt, the most astonishing travel experience you're likely to have if you play it right.

Are you talking up-market? That's easier but woah, expensive. Cruise? As in Sepik river cruise. Ambua Lodge?

Goroka is reputedly better than Hagen for sing-sing. Go to sing-sing. Go Go Go. Anywhere. Amazing pictures. Kinda odd. Really good. Sometimes the smaller ones are better.

AND where are you based? I'd recommend dealing with an Australian company. There are a few. A USA based one will just sell you off to them anyway.There are a couple of PNG top-end compsanies who get the bulk of the loot.

Here's one of 'em.
http://www.pngtours.com

here's an OZ company:
http://www.nghols.com/

I think that'll keep you busy. DO NOT forget the islands. DO go down the Sepik.
Here's a really smart option for Sepik cruise that nobody knows about:
http://www.kalibobospirit.com/
check out this, too:
http://www.mtspng.com/

stay at Madang resort. Get a bumgalow overwater.

Dogster,
Thank you for the information! Much appreciated. Expensive? yes!! but you make is sound like it is worth it. What is your PNG 'story'? Are you a writer? I am a photographer. You are terrific.
djsilverman.

Hey dj - the PNG story/photo-essay is, in first draft form, here:

http://thedogster3.wordpress.com
plus some Sepik pics.

Since you first posted, I've also found some cruises that cover very, very interesting territory:
http://clipperodysseyship.com/clippe...tineraries.php

SO juicy - and, for a single, a mere $10,000 + for ten days. lol lol lol.

Forget the $$ - if you are a photographer, just GO, GO, GO. Mind-boggling.

Clipper Odyssey (zegrahm cruises) does a first rate job and if 5 star service though it is an expedition type tour. Another firm though I doubt they can trump Zegrahm is Orion, an Australian firm but the price is the same and I understand with add-ons it can exceed Zegrahm.

Try http://wandertours.com/destinations/papua-new-guinea/ Great price for the itinerary.

My first time here and yes! i attended the Goroka Highland Fair (sing-sing) in 1962. Really nice then. No danger to anyone except local folks who snatch random pigs. A lovely place and i am very disappointed that violence has become so rampant, so i read. My goal, one day, is to climb Mt. Wilhelm as for one year i lived in the bush at it's base and heard tales of the broken WWII aircraft on the slopes. Wishing you a good journey. I will need to brush up on my 'pidjin' english.