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Adventure Kokoda

Locality: Grange

Phone: +61 1300 783 303

Address: PO Box 321 4051 Grange, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.kokodatreks.com

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19.01.2022 A large tent for each Adventure Kokoda trekker with the added luxury at Bomber's campsite...extra pillows and a comfy mattress

12.01.2022 Have a look at our other recent videos on Adventure Kokoda YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AdventureKokoda/videos 10 Hot Tips for Kokoda Kokoda Training and Physical Preparation 10 Top Tips for Women... Using Trekking Poles See more

11.01.2022 Adventure Kokoda trekkers - your reasons for trekking the Kokoda Trail? ... 1. Physical Challenge 2. Wartime History 3. Bucket List... 4. Adventure 5. Culture 6. Environment See more

11.01.2022 Adventure Kokoda Trek Leader Peter Morrison at Paddy Pallin filming the next video in our series 'Kokoda Gear and Equipment'. See our other videos on Adventure Kokoda YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AdventureKokoda/videos... 10 Hot Tips for Kokoda Kokoda Training and Physical Preparation 10 Hot Tips for Women Using Trekking Poles

09.01.2022 In the beginning...1992, a proposed ‘Kokoda Epic Run’ to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign didn’t come to pass but it wasn’t for the lack of trying. PNG enlisted the support of Adventure Kokoda Director Charlie Lynn, Race Director of the famous Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon at the time. Charlie, a former major, retrieved his army gear from the trunk in his garage, flew to PNG, engaged a local guide, and set off into the unknown across t...he Trail to check it out. This interview was conducted by Patrick Lindsay, who met Charlie at Kokoda the morning he finished his own epic trek. Kokoda was not on our radar at the time and sponsors were not interested in the event. Charlie then decided to put it on the radar by leading his first Anzac trek in 1992 the rest, as they say, is history! Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxGY7OyKVY

04.01.2022 Children along the Kokoda Trail

04.01.2022 Discover a Cultural and Historical Experience like no other. Courage - Endurance - Mateship - Sacrifice

03.01.2022 Roses At Eora Creek by Rashmii Bell - Adventure Kokoda are pleased to announce the first delivery out of the 500 books donated have now been presented to the Elementary Schools: Depot, Vesulugo and Rouna and also to the Sogeri and Bisiatabu Primary Schools. The children and teachers were delighted to receive their books and thanked all our donors for their generosity. Thanks to Warren Bartlett from Sogeri Lodge and our Adventure Kokoda representatives Kevin, Joe, Matthew and Gideon.

01.01.2022 The passing of Grand Chief, The Hon Sir Michael Somare, who led a thousand tribes to nationhood in the ‘land of the unexpected’ is the end of an era for Papua N...ew Guinea. Eloquent obituaries from those who observed and shared his journey are testimony to his character, his political astuteness and his love of country. To Papua New Guineans colonial titles such as ‘Honourable’, Sir’, and ‘Knight of the Realm’ were meaningless he was simply their beloved ‘papa Grand Chief’. My first meeting with Sir Michael was the result of a ‘call from the unexpected’ in my Parliamentary office in Sydney. ‘Sir Michael is in the Park Hyatt across the road and would like to meet you' said the caller. Half an hour later I was ushered into his suite and introduced. To say that I was in awe of his presence is an understatement he had all the aura of a ‘Grand Chief’. We spent about an hour discussing the need to protect our shared wartime heritage in PNG and the political challenges of the time. We also had a few hearty laughs about some of our experiences in PNG he had a great sense of humour and loved telling the story about being asked for identification on arrival at Brisbane airport as he fumbled for his passport he flashed a K50 note which has his photo on it and asked if that would be OK. His purpose for the meeting was to ask me to arrange a meeting on his behalf with Premier Bob Carr. This was a big call as I was relatively new to politics, I was in the opposite political party to the Premier, and I occupied the lowest rung on the political totem pole. I called Col Gellatly, the affable and highly respected Director-General of the Premier’s Department and explained that I had a request from left field’. ‘Leave it with me Charlie’ he said. The following afternoon I escorted the Grand Chief into the Premier’s office, introduced them and had a quick yarn before leaving them to their business. I believe they became good friends which would have been mutually beneficial for our international relations when Bob later became Foreign Minister. I later met Sir Michael in the PNG Parliamentary Dining Room and invited him to host a dinner at their Airways Hotel where we presented him with a strategic plan we had developed for the Kokoda Trail. There will be thousand stories to come from the 'land of a thousand tribes' in years to come, and like story-tellers, I will forever treasure the memories of my moments with such a great and humble man. Papa Grand Chief will forever be to Papua New Guinea what Lee Kwan Yew was to Singapore; Ghandi was to India; Nelson Mandela was to South Africa a giant of his era and an inspiration for future generations. RIP Sir Michael your duty has been nobly done.