Hello All,

We need some help with our trip planning!
We travelled through Africa the past 2 years and are now travelling through Australia and planning on leaving Australia next year, but how and where to?

We would love to visit papue new guinea, bali, the philipins, indonesia and signapore.
Anyone who visited those island in a trip?
Any info about how to move between those island?

We're planning on ending in Signapore as we are planning on taking a train there that will connects us with the seberian express, and so slowly make our way back home (Belgium) .

We were thinking to leave Australia in Cairns and visit papua new guinea, those 2 places are close to eachother, but apparently it's only possible to fly in?
Where to can you fly from papua new guinea?

Any info about getting visa's, possible at the borders, difficult to get, impossible to get?

Any info, previous trips, blogs,... welcome!!
Thanks thanks

Eef and Dries!

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PNG has a few quirks. One is that there is no road connection between Pt Moresby and the rest of PNG.
The main road system from the NE coast up through the highlands is well served by a network of adhoc transportation conveyancers called PMVs. They come in three classes. Very uncomfortable, excruciatingly uncomfortable and life threatening. All the same price, and it just depends on how crowded it is as to which class you travel in.



If you are talking about doing it on a motorbike then you will need to be highly experienced at avoiding potholes, mud, pigs, kids and people. Likely result of hitting any of the last three is death.
Speaking of mud, this was in the dry season. --



If you can figure a way to install something like this on your bike



It might deflect a few of the rocks and machette swipes that tend to do a fair bit of damage to bones and tendons



Apart from that, its an interesting place. I enjoy it.
Mostly.

And when they are not hacking each other up over payback issues, they are very friendly




Oh and be very careful in Port Moresby and Mt Hagin. In either place, if you have a truck with goods on the back, you need one person on each corner to reduce the speed at which the whole load gets stolen. My first night in Mt hagin a gang of raskals attacked the motel my daughter and I were staying at and shot and slashed the place up pretty badly

Entry visa is available at the airport when you fly in to Jacksons at Port Moresby - for Australians anyway. Cost 100 kina. 60 days single entry and you MUST have an outwards ticket.

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A search on this forum brings up four entries. The first link works OK but the ones to HUBB topics fail.

Peter & Kay Forwood trip on a Harley-Davidson to Papua New Guinea
Peter & Kay Forwood trip on a Harley-Davidson to Papua New Guinea

Jun 16, 2008 ... Today was a day of mixed successes and inconveniences. Airlines PNG wouldn't let us board without an onward ticket (PNG immigration rules) ...


Papua New Guinea - Australia - Horizons Unlimited - The HUBB
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ustralia-71733

Biggest problem will getting into/from New Guinea from Indonesia and then travelling there by road/track. Most freight goes into Papua New ...


Next HU Events calendar - Horizons Unlimited - The HUBB
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ng-papua-50229
Just wondering if you got to Papua New Guinea ??? would love to here some stories of the journey. I am planning to be there start of next year, ...


Papua New Guinea To Kathmandu by Ural sidecar
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...ndu-ural-64028

We started the trip about a month ago to ride our Ural from Papua New Guinea to Kathmandu, Nepal. That was the plan in general anyway.

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Hi! I lived in Jakarta, Indonesia. I love to visit Bali (like everyone does)! If you wanted to visit Bali, you should go to Seminyak and Uluwatu area(there are lots of cool places there)

Here are some list of great places:
Around Seminyak:
- PotatoHead Beach Club
- Ku De Ta
- W Resort
- El Kabron
- Motel Mexicola
- Woo Bar
- and a lot of more

Around Uluwatu
- Ayana Resort
- Rock Bar
- Alila Villa
- Karma Kandara
- Finn's Beach Club
and a lot of more

- Pandawa Beach

And if you want to try some water sports, you can go to
Tanjung Benoa, Nusa Dua. I tried parasailing once. it was great!

And you should try Nuri's Ribs (BEST PORK RIBS in Bali!), and there's one small place called Eatwell near the beach, that has good food with very affordable price

there are lot of beautiful and affordable villa in bali that sometimes will cost less than a hotel (depends on how many people in your group). I stayed at Astana Kunti Villa. it such a nice place to stay! (for my experience). or if you want some suggestion for the villa, check @balivilla on Instagram

If you have more time, you should visit Nusa Ceningan, it's on Lembongan, small island near Bali, it is absolutely heaven! quiet place with beautiful beach! stay at Le Pirate Beach Club. i think it will only cost you around $40/night. but definitely worth the experience(and absolutely the view!)
And my tips for you, it's better to rent a car then take a taxi because some of the taxi drivers may fool you and will cost you a lot.

just google those places for more Info! or you can take a look at @thebalibible on instagram

If you want to visit Jakarta, around 1-2hours flight from Bali. You can go to some Museum in Central Jakarta. For some Culinary experience, try this places:
at Grand Indonesia Shopping Town
-Social House
-Skye (you can see Jakarta's view from 56th floor rooftop)!
-Publik Markette

But if I may warn you, traffic in Jakarta could be very crazyy,like really crazy! it will make you stressed out.

hope you enjoy your holiday! and dont hesitate to ask me more info about Jakarta or Bali! I hope it could help : )

Cheers,

Mila


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Hi,

Tony Lee, it looks like I first should've asked 'can you travel to Papua new guinea' , looks like you don't recommend it, thanks for that!

We're not silly travellers, we just travelled two years through Africa and yes we should've looked up before asking, but in our enthousiasme during planning for the rest of our trip we didn't and just posted this topic.
Won't do it again

And Mila, thanks for all your tips!
Will have a look into it and contact you if we have any more questions.

Eef and Dries