Tour module 8 days Korowai expedition

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Tour module round trip 8 days Adventurous Papua - the Korowai

The Korowai tour module is our most adventurous round trip. In a mixture of short flights, boat trips and sometimes tough walks you cross the jungle to the Korowai tribes that live high above the ground in tree houses.

You sleep in small tents and sometimes in local primitive accommodations. Besides a guide you will also be accompanied by porters and a cook during your trip.
You need to be in good physical condition and have a great deal of adaptability as you will get into not everyday situations.

The round trip starts and ends in Jayapura. If you wish you can add the Baliem valley tour module to (before or after) your Korowai round trip.

Target prices

€ 2,060 p.p. based on 2 participants
€ 1,970 p.p. based on 4 participants

Included:
• All transport over land by car including transfers from and to the airports
• All meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner
• 2 hotel overnight stays in Dekai
• 5 overnight stays in tents
• English speaking guide
• Porters and cook
• Motorboat Korowai
• Ceremonies at the Korowai
• Travel permit (bring copies of your passport and passport photos)
• Entrance fees and donations
• All activities in program
. Flights Jayapura-Dekai-Jayapura

Not included:
•Tips and personal expenses
•Travel and cancellation insurance
•Booking fee and contribution Calamiteitenfonds €30 per booking
•SGR contribution € 5 per person
•CO2 compensation € 22 per person

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Day 1 Arrival Jayapura and transit to Dekai

Vanaf Jayapura airport vliegt u met Trigana airlines naar Dekai, een vlucht van iets minder dan een uur. Bij aankomst in Dekai. Dekai is na de grotere autonomie van de provincie Papua aan het moderniseren en de Manimo stam is inmiddels redelijk geciviliseerd. Terwijl de gids de laatste voorbereidingen treft heeft u de middag vrij te besteden. Overnachting in simpel hotel.

Filght Jayapura-Wamena-Dekai-Wamena-Jayapura

Flight with Trigana Air 5 Daily departures in the morning from Jayapura: Max weight: 10 kg. Extra weight ca € 5 per kg to be paid on the spot NB: Trigana Air figures on the list of flight companies that are not allowed to fly in European airspace.

Day 2 A day on the Brazza river

After breakfast, on the back of a motorcycle over a bad road you’ll be driven to the ‘port’ of Lopon. Here starts the trip of around 7 hours over the Brazza river. On our way we stop at some villages of the Citak Mitak tribes. They live along the river on fish and what the jungle behind their huts has to offer. Since there is more 'traffic' on the Brazza river these tribes have been westernising too and they often wear normal clothes. In the afternoon we arrive in Muara Siretz. We overnight in the village in tents.

Day 3 Trekking to the Korowai

The last boat trip takes four hours and then we reach the village Mabul. This is the first village of the Korowai that we visit. While the guide is announcing our visit to the chief of the tribe and arranges some porters we’ve got time to have a look around the village. The Korowai in Mabul work as farmers or hunters. Together with the porters we walk at a quiet pace in about three hours to the Korowai villages in the jungle. In every village we have to negotiate with the chief. If he accepts our presents we are allowed to enter the domain and you will sit amid the local people, as if you had travelled centuries back in time. Overnight stay in a tent (if you wish in a tent in a treehouse).

Day 4 Living with the Korowai

We spend two full days experiencing daily life with the Korowai. You can join them when they go hunting or for the sago harvest. The jungle is here warm and swampy. Sago is the primary food resource and is complemented with fish and meat, from the hunting. And of course fruit and vegetables from the jungle.

Day 5 Living with the Korowai

Another day among this primitive tribe. You’ll be invited to the sago harvest or catch fish. Of course you’ll also witness their traditional dances and music. The people here enjoy themselves as much as you do.

Day 6 Back to Mabul

We say goodbye to the Korowai in the jungle and walk and sail back to Mabul

Day 7 Brazza river to Dekai

In reversed order we now sail a full day against the current. In the late afternoon we arrive in Lopon, where you get on the back of the motorcycle again and will be driven to Dekai.

Day 8 Flight back to Wamena or Jayapura

Around midday we fly from Dekai back to Wamena or Jayapura. The end of a very special round trip.

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Korowai region

Korowai

The area of the Korowai tribes is an area of over 500 square kilometers northwest of Upper Digul. It is a difficult to reach swampy rainforest. Trips to the Korowai are by boat, usually across the Brazza River from Dekai, or from Kepi.

The approximately 3,000 Korowai live in small settlements in tree houses. Since the end of the last century, villages have also been built along the rivers, reducing the number of settlements. The Korowai live from nature. The sago palm is the most important supplier. In addition, there is a bow and arrow hunt for wild boars and fishing in the small streams.

The tree houses are located at a height of 15 to 50 meters and protect the inhabitants from vermin, game and hostile attacks. The ladder is a dried and notched tree trunk and vibrates with every step that is taken, thus alerting residents when someone is climbing up.

If you want to visit the Korowai you have to take into account very primitive overnight stays (at the Korowai in a tent or in a tree house). In addition to a reasonable condition, you must also have a great deal of adaptability. After the long boat trip on the Brazza river, a trek of 3 to 5 hours follows through the swampy jungle to the Korowai settlement. In addition to a guide, a cook and porters go along on a Korowai expedition. A Korowai expedition can be combined with a visit to the Baliem Valley or the Asmat region.