Papua New Guinea - Highlights I 2025

30 May 2025 - 09 Jun 2025 (11 days)

PGK25,950 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Julian Parsons

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Tour Leader: Paul Varney

Tour price (Per person): PGK25,950 * USD6,430 * GBP5,083 * EUR6,129 * AUD9,935

Single Supplement: PGK3,100 * USD768 * GBP607 * EUR732 * AUD1,187

Flight costs: PGK3,400 * USD842 * GBP666 * EUR803 * AUD1,302

Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension I 2025

Papua New Guinea - Highlights II 2025

04 Jul 2025 - 14 Jul 2025 (11 days)

PGK25,950 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Amanda Guercio

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Tour Leader: Lev Frid

Tour price (Per person): PGK25,950 * USD6,430 * GBP5,083 * EUR6,129 * AUD9,935

Single Supplement: PGK3,100 * USD768 * GBP607 * EUR732 * AUD1,187

Flight costs: PGK3,400 * USD842 * GBP666 * EUR803 * AUD1,302

Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension II 2025

Papua New Guinea - Highlights III 2025

06 Aug 2025 - 16 Aug 2025 (11 days)

PGK25,950 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Erik Forsyth

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Tour Leader: Robert Williams

Tour price (Per person): PGK25,950 * USD6,430 * GBP5,083 * EUR6,129 * AUD9,935

Single Supplement: PGK3,100 * USD768 * GBP607 * EUR732 * AUD1,187

Flight costs: PGK3,400 * USD842 * GBP666 * EUR803 * AUD1,302

Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension III 2025

Papua New Guinea - Highlights I 2026

29 Jun 2026 - 09 Jul 2026 (11 days)

PGK27,000 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Lev Frid

Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*

Tour price (Per person): PGK27,000 * USD6,690 * GBP5,288 * EUR6,377 * AUD10,337

Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension I 2026

Papua New Guinea - Highlights II 2026

11 Jul 2026 - 21 Jul 2026 (11 days)

PGK27,000 - Spaces Available

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Tour Leader: Erik Forsyth

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Tour Leader: Paul Varney

Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*

Tour price (Per person): PGK27,000 * USD6,690 * GBP5,288 * EUR6,377 * AUD10,337

Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension II 2026

Our Papua New Guinea Highlights tour has been specifically crafted to take in the region’s very best sites, from Mount Hagen and Rondon Ridge to the lowlands of Varirata and Kiunga, and is designed for those with less time to spare in the field, yet still wishing for a comprehensive overview of this exceptional land. We bird in areas rich with avian diversity giving ample opportunity for finding many of the area’s most sought-after species. Fabulous birds-of-paradise will feature highly, while we will also enjoy some incredible fruit doves, kingfishers, parrots, honeyeaters, bowerbirds and a couple of endemic families such as berrypeckers and longbills. This tour can also be linked with our New Britain Endemics Extension for a wonderful two week exploration.

Top Birds

Papuan Eagle, 15+ Bird-of-paradise species!, Zoe’s Imperial & Pheasant Pigeon, Wattled Ploughbill, Crested Satinbird, Painted Quail-thrush, Brehm’s Tiger Parrot, Papuan Lorikeet, Lesser Melampitta, Emperor Fairywren, Crested Berrypecker & Mountain Firetail

Top Mammals

Spectacled Dasyure, Black-tailed Giant Rat, Agile Wallaby

Habitats Covered

lowland and montane rainforest, secondary forest, Eucalyptus savanna, mangroves, grasslands, wetlands

Expected Climate

hot and humid with tropical showers, cooler in the highlands

Max Group Size

7 with 1 Rockjumper Leader / 8 - 10 with 2 Rockjumper leaders

Tour Pace & Walking

This is a moderate tour. You should have a GOOD level of fitness & stamina, and be in good health. Not suitable for anyone with mobility or health challenges.

Accommodation

Reasonable to good.

Ease of Birding

Moderate. Bird density is low, many visuals are high in the canopy. Several tricky target species.

Other Attractions

traditional carvings, spectacular forest vistas and mountain scenery

Photographic Opportunities

Reasonable, typical rain forest conditions of variable light and frequent rain.

What our clients say about us

Glen Valentine
AH, Papua New Guinea 2018

Glen Valentine was excellent, seeing and hearing most of the target birds, despite a very chatty, enthusiastic group that must have been very challenging at times.

Dušan Brinkhuizen
MY, Papua New Guinea 2018

Dušan Brinkhuizen was very personable, great birder, keen on helping us all see the species.

Stephan Lorenz
JC - PNG 2022

The tour was excellent overall. The main guide, Stephan Lorentz, was really top class. His knowledge of the birds and calls and the fine id details was exceptional and his field skills were awesome, outdoing the local guides at times. And he is extremely personable and friendly. The local guides were also excellent and provided an exceptionally high level of field skill and support, and great enthusiasm in getting pax onto the more challenging birds. And physical support also, including even helping some of the pax on slippery slopes and cutting stairs on river landings at times!! The landed arrangements were generally slick and the accommodation of good quality. Overall it was an exceptional and really memorable tour with superb birds and birding, much or most of which would not have been possible without the Rockjumper team, slick tour planning and arrangements, Stephan and the local guides.

Glen Valentine
MK, Papua New Guinea 2018

The credit for the trip’s success goes to our guides, Glen Valentine and David Erterius. Both have seemingly limitless knowledge of the birds, extrasensory capacities to find them, apparently endless patience and generosity with their clients, and (critically) wonderful senses of humor. They consistently squeezed more out of the birds, the environment, and the experience than I thought possible.

Adam Walleyn
JH - Papua New Guinea 2019

Adam Walleyn knew the birds and the calls and worked hard to make sure we saw not only the specialties of the area but all the birds. His nightbirding skills were phenomenal. It is like he knew exactly where the bird was going to show.

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