Mt. Hagen Cultural Show 2015

THE 2015 Mt. Hagen Cultural Show is scheduled to come alive in the third week of August on the weekend from 15^th to 16^th. The annual event will bring alive some of the dying cultures such as the Kurware Cultural dance by Gaim Engawal tribe from Lower Kaguel in the Tambul Nebilyer District, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Mt. Hagen City at a prime elevation of 1,677m above seen level, it is linked by both land and air transport. 

By airplane from Port Moresby, you have three (3) different choices to choose from three (3) different airline companies when making a booking – Air Niugini Ltd, Airlines PNG Ltd and Mangi Long Ples. Depending on the flight each airline company has, you have a chance to compare their prices and seek if they offer special flights which mostly they do. Depending on the class of air travel services and the type and size of aircraft, you will have a quote from the most cheapest to the next cheapest airfare. It is easy for making an online booking for your travel.       

The fight from Port Moresby to Mt. Hagen takes approximately 45 minutes to an hour. Upon arrival at Kagamuga Airport in Mt. Hagen, you have three (3) choices of land transport to take you to your destination – public transport (PMV) a bus service from operates from 7am to 6pm every day, private hired vehicles/Hire Cars as troopers/station wagons and Hotel/Lodge pick-up mini-buses available at the airport. The cheapest is the PMV transport, similar to Taxi Services elsewhere.

 

Mt. Hagen city is connected by road, the Highlands Highway (the longest highway in the country), with Madang, Lae, Goroka, Chimbu, Jiwaka, Wabag, Mendi , Tari and Kikori.

For your accommodation in Mt. Hagen, you have three (3) classes (types) of accommodation to choose from – modern furnished Hotel Rooms, semi-modern with local architectural design Lodge Rooms and a typical highlands village Homes with friends and wantoks. Costing for each class of accommodation varies from one to next. The cheapest is spending your days with local villagers in their homes. You receive a friendly Melanesian Welcome and meet exciting highlanders who proudly welcome first-time visitors as their friends and immediately call them their wantoks.      

  

In each class of accommodation you choose, cost of the meals ranging to the class of accommodation.  Your stay with villagers at their homes is coupled with a highlands traditional dish and you are part of them for dinner and breakfast at a minimum cost.

If you are visiting the Mt. Hagen Cultural Festival this year (2015), you can check out the price ranges of the three (3) different classes of accommodation available with fully escorted tours and meals by contacting the local NIUGINI EXOTIC TOURS via email at: howarig4@gmail.com We will provide fully escorted tour guides for the 2015 Mt. Hagen Cultural Show in August.

Gaim Engwal's Kuru-ware cultural dance that was performed at Mt. Hagen Cultural Show in 2014 and this year 2015 in August they will perform again. It was one of the rare highlands cultures that almost become extinct but thanks to Mt. Hagen Cultural Show that keep bringing them back to alive. Photograph - Gabriel Kuntina.