Papua New Guinea feels like one of the last untouched places in the world. Guaranteed you’ll be hard pushed to find someone who’s been, let alone can tell you about travelling there, which makes it all the more attractive.

I wanted to put together this Papua New Guinea travel guide to help anyone who’s thinking of travelling to this wonderful country in the future.

I went one September for two weeks and had a truly eye opening and interesting time. I had no preconceptions and knew very little about the country before I went.

It’s slightly larger than California, if you’re looking for some kind of reference for its size.

Papua New Guinea might seem like a million miles away but if you’re in Australia, and up in Darwin, in the Northern Territory, then it’s an 11-hour direct flight to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital city. Or, even better, it’s just six hours from Singapore. Which is the flight I took, from England and stopping over there.

There are over six million people living in Papua New Guinea, speaking over 800 indigenous languages between them, with hundreds of different beliefs and ways of life. This means there’s no one