How can I get to Mount Wilhelm?

Trevor
12/11/2016

Once in Papua New Guinea, you can drive three to six hours from Lae to Goroka (depends on the road condition), a very pleasant town of 8,000 or so located in a valley at about 5,000 feet asl. If you're coming from Port Moresby, you can catch a one hour flight to Goroka on Air Niugini. In Goroka, excellent accomodation at the Bird of Paradise hotel is available, as well as a range of less expensive lodges and hotels.


You can then travel by road from Goroka to the base camp at the Mt Wilhelm Trout Farm, operated by Ken and Betty Higgins, together with their local assistants. Cost for a 4WD return trip (up to 6 passengers) is somewhere around K400.00 (US$120.00), and is available through Niugini Highland Tours, and can be booked via the Bird of Paradise Hotel. The 4 to 5 hour trip proceeds along roads which cling to mountain sides (and sometimes don't) and winds up from 5,000 feet across the pass at 9,000 feet then down to Kundiawa and along a steep sided river valley to Keglsugl, then on to the trout farm and the Lodge. 

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