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Little Heroes Foundation: Kokoda Track 12 days departing Adelaide 1 October 2017 An adventure along the Kokoda Track is an experience not just a holiday. The Kokoda Track is a journey into Australia's wartime history. It is as important a part of Australian history as Gallipoli. The trek itinerary combines the complete Kokoda wartime story along the exact wartime Kokoda Track, with a world class, challenging, jungle bushwalking experience and inspiring cultural interaction with trek crew and villagers you meet along the way. $5,420.00* per person twin share departing Adelaide (flights included). Little Heroes Foundation raises funds towards essential equipment and services for seriously ill children and their families. We have raised close to $20 million dollars in 20 years for lifesaving facilities at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and to provide daily support to families through our Little Heroes Care program. Join us on this rewarding Kokoda trek and help raise money for Little Heroes Foundation! What’s included in the price? Return Economy Class flights Adelaide to Port Moresby via Brisbane One night accommodation in Brisbane including breakfast Return private airport transfers in Brisbane One way flight between Port Moresby and Popondetta Visa for Papua New Guinea including courier service International airport arrival and departure transfers in Port Moresby All necessary land transport in PNG including private transport from Port Moresby to Owers Corner and from Kokoda Village to Popondetta. 2 nights Port Moresby twin share accommodation at the Holiday Inn. 9 day/8 night trekking itinerary Professional Australian Trek Leader Local Head Guide, management team and trek crew from villages along the Track 9 days/8 nights accommodation along the Track, in spacious, individual mosquito proof tents which are provided and will be carried, erected and taken down by the trek crew…or you can stay in a village guest house at each of the campsites Fresh dinners on trek hygienically prepared by the cooks, plus breakfast & lunch each trek day. No army or similar style ration packs All personal eating utensils All camp fees Trek permit costs Comprehensive history briefings at all war sites All meals and camp fees for trek crew plus travel allowance and wages for crew All emergency equipment including ropes, bush knives and axe, plus VHF radios and satellite phone linked 24 hours to our Port Moresby base ( for emergency use only) Hand held radios are linked to the Kokoda Track village radio network and the Kokoda Track Authority office Visit to Bomana War Cemetery, entrance fee to Japanese Forest Fort at Eora Creek, Con’s Rock, mortar and grenade dump above Templetons and Brigade Hill Commemorative embroided trekking shirt Certificate of Achievement suitable for framing Commemorative ceremony conducted on the summit of Brigade Hill HOW HARD is trekking the Kokoda Track? There is no beating around the bush– trekking the Kokoda Track is tough. For many trekkers, completing the Track is a significant physical and mental achievement. Occasionally, trekkers finish the trek and state that it was easier than they were lead to believe. This means that they were adequately prepared, fit and healthy. If you are physically and mentally prepared before you begin your Kokoda Track trek, everything usually falls into place and you will enjoy your Kokoda trekking experience! Day 1—Sunday 1 October It was at this point that the Japanese forces were ordered Adelaide to Brisbane to retreat and the second phase of the Kokoda campaign This afternoon depart Adelaide at 2.05pm for your flight to commenced which involved the Aussies pushing the Brisbane arriving at 4.55pm. Upon arrival in Brisbane, you will apanese back onto the northern beaches where they had be transferred to your hotel for the evening. Hotel TBC. landed 6 months earlier. This is also the site of what was known as the ‘Golden Day 2 - Monday 2 October Staircase’. There are 3 paths from the Goldie River to the Brisbane to Port Moresby summit of Imita Ridge. Each were used by the Australian This morning after breakfast you will be transferred back to forces. The steeper sections were improved by cutting the airport for your flight to Port Moresby. The flight leaves Brisbane at 10.40am to arrive Port Moresby at 1.50pm. steps and reinforcing them with timbers cut from the Upon arrival in Port Moresby you will be met by a forest. Today the timber reinforcing has long since rotted representative of Backtrack and transferred to your away. There are those who believe (and diary records to accommodation at the Holiday Inn Express. The hotel support the view) that there were several staircases complex features a swimming pool, restaurants, comfortable constructed on steeper sections of these early ridges bar areas and fully air-conditioned rooms with all facilities. A encountered on the trek towards Kokoda. Team briefing is held this afternoon to discuss final Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner preparations for the trek. In the early evening you will have a Team Dinner before an early night to bed for a good sleep to Day 4 - Wednesday 4 October be prepared for an early morning departure on Day 2. Meals included: Breakfast Nauro Village You start early today so you can walk at a slow and relaxed Day 3 - Tuesday 3 October pace. Ascend the north slope and then descend the south Ua Ule Creek slope of Imita ridge where you have lunch and swim in Ofi This morning depart Port Moresby for Owers Corner, Creek. stopping at the Bomana War cemetery enroute. Trek over Today as you explore the Japanese positions, recall that it Imita ridge to your jungle camp at Ua Ule Creek. It was on was here that the Japanese soldiers were pounded for the Imita Ridge that the Australians dug in for what they thought first time by Australian artillery located at Owers Corner. was to be their last stand against the advancing Japanese The Australian forces till now had no counter to the forces. Having been blasted out of their hurriedly dug Japanese mountain guns so skillfully used against them defences above Ofi Creek on Irobaiwa Ridge, by a well since Isurava. The Japanese offensive/defensive positions located Japanese mountain gun, the Australians retreated to are located on a number of trails over Irobaiwa Ridge. Imita Ridge and were now not prepared to give another inch. Your Trek Leader will show you the rarely visited Kunai Day 6 - Friday 6 October grass clearing which marks the furthest point of contact Naduri Village made by Australian troops with General Hori’s South Sea This morning you climb Brigade Hill and conduct a brief, Forces. In this clearing a large heavily armed Japanese dignified ceremony on the summit in honour of the advance patrol was wiped out in a hastily planned ambush soldiers and in remembrance of their bravery. by an opposing Australian patrol, who luckily heard the A steep descent follows into the Village of Efogi and then Japanese officer talking as he moved his men down the a short sharp ascent to your home village of Naduri. trail. It was also on Irobaiwa Ridge, with Port Moresby Your trek leader will point out the paths taken by the nearly in sight, that General Hori received orders directly Japanese forces on their famous’ ‘night time lantern from the Emperor, to withdraw. With major shortages of procession’. This now legendary procession, lit by munitions, food and reinforcements and being pounded by burning lengths of cable stripped from Australian field Australian artillery and harassed by well-equipped wireless lines, was undertaken on the eve of the battle of Australian patrols, the Japanese army retreated with the Brigade Hill in an attempt to put fear into the hearts of Australians in hot pursuit. the 2/27 Battalion dug in on Mission Ridge. Time is taken After lunch, a steep ascent of the Maguli ranges to your to explain and show how and where the Japanese campsite in Nauro Village, located on the slopes below the managed to cut the Australian defences which summit on the descending trail into the Brown River valley. eventually led to the Australian defenders having to Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner withdraw. Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Day 5 - Thursday 5 October Menari Village Day 7 - Saturday 7 October After breakfast, you commence a long descent of the Naduri Village Maguli Range. As the Australians retreated, ascending the Today is the Sabbath and therefore a non-trekking rest long never ending slopes of the Maguli Range broke the day. In respect for the wishes of the local people you do heart of many an exhausted soldier. On the northern side not trek on the Sabbath. You have an opportunity to of the range you now enter the sometimes swampy flood catch up on your washing and enjoy mixing with the trek plains of the Brown River. Cross the Brown River and crew and the village people. continue over a steep spur into your campsite in the You will be guided around Naduri Village to inspect some beautiful village of Menari. of Back Track’s current Trekker Assistance Programmes. Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner BackTrack hopes to be able to provide trekkers with an insight into village life during your stay. Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Day 8 - Sunday 8 October Day 9 - Monday 9 October Templetons Crossing 2 Alolo Village Today cross the Kokoda saddle the highest point of your From your campsite deep in the bottom of this narrow trek at 2190 metres. steep sided valley, trek on to inspect the Japanese Once on the summit of the Kokoda Saddle, depending on positions in the Eora Creek Forest Fort.

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