Papua New Guinea is Australia's closest international neighbour and as a single country can boast the most diverse set of cultures, scenery and activities available anywhere in the world.   PNG Holidays presents a showcase of packages from these diverse cultures, idyllic scenery and amazing activities just waiting to be experienced.

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Welcome to PNG Holidays!
Our website showcases Papau New Guinea and its amazing holiday options to enable you to make an informed decision if you are considering Papua New Guinea as your next holiday destination.

Naturally and Culturally, Papua New Guinea is one of the most spectacular and diverse countries in the world. We invite you to look through these pages as we are sure that you will find a wealth of accurate and up to date information.  Tourism in Papua New Guinea is in it's infancy and yet as a destination it already offers so much. Lukim yu long hap! (See you there!)

Australia’s Closest Neighbour
Papua New Guinea is Australia’s closest international neighbour and yet PNG could be on the opposite side of Planet Earth in the middle of the developing world. As Australia is to westernised, Papua New Guinea is to undeveloped or should we say underdeveloped. Papua New Guinea is separated from Australia only by the Torres Strait - a span of water only 160 kilometres wide, major shipping lane, dotted with the islands that make up the Torres Strait Island communities and still a part of Queensland, and then to the north of the Torres Strait , within 2 kilometres of the most northern Queensland Communities of Boigu, Saibai and Dauan lies Papua New Guinea – A former Australian protectorate and since 1975 an independent country and member state of the Commonwealth.

Still not sure where PNG is?
Picture a map of Australia. Think of Queensland and it's north-pointing finger that is Cape York Peninsula. To the north of Cape York, 800 kilometres north of Cairns lies the Torres Strait with its main centre of Thursday Island. The next major land mass to the north is made up of two countries divided by a border along the 141st degree of Longitude. To the West of this border is West Papua (Irian Jaya). Politically the western most state of Indonesia. To the East of this border lies the independent state of Papua New Guinea.

Divided into 19 provinces, as a single country, Papua New Guinea is without doubt the most culturally diverse country in the world. With a population of around 5.9 million people made up of more than 800 different language and clan groups. It is a credit to its people that in these changing times it has remained as cohesive as it has.

Stone Age to Space Age
In a single generation the people of Papua New Guinea are transitioning from subsistence farming to desiring the same modern technologies and equipment as the western world – TV, Internet, University Education, Cars, Housing, Electricity and Travel. The Industrial Revolution that finished in Europe more than 200 years ago is still underway in PNG. It's People are moving from the countryside to the capital of Port Moresby and to all the Provincial Centres in search of a better life but at the same time the traditions of more than 800 ancient cultures remain.

There is archive film footage of the arrival of the first Westerners into the Highlands – this was put together in a Documentary called "First Contact". Stories still exist of highland tribes that have yet to meet their first westerners. The missionaries did a lot to convert Papua New Guineans to Christianity but this happened more in the New Guinea Islands than in the Highlands.