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New Britain
3 Hours Before Flight Time
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You will be met at Jacksons International airport by Adventure Kokoda staff who will accompany you to the Sogeri Lodge and check you in. You will then receive your backpacks/daypacks. Your trek leader will assist with ‘fitting’ your backpack and gear for the trek.
Today we have an early start as we have to arrive at the departure terminal of our charter aircraft company to check our gear in and complete our loading manifests prior to our flight to Kokoda. Air charter companies are keen to depart Port Moresby by 8.00 AM as weather conditions are most favourable around this time.
The flight across the Owen Stanley Ranges is 96 km ‘as the crow flies’ and takes about 25 minutes to complete.
We sound ‘Reveille’ at 4.30 AM to prepare for our first full day’s trekking – Reveille’ is a bugle call used to wake military personnel at sunrise. The name comes from réveille (or réveil), the French word for “wake up.
At 6.30 AM your trek leader will check your welfare then provide a detailed briefing on the day ahead. He will stress that it is important for you to trek at your own pace and not to try and keep up with those who like to be at the front. It is important that you take it easy whilst your body is acclimatising to the tropical conditions and you are adapting to the trek.
This is a day you will never forget.
We sound Reveille at 4.30 AM and lead you down to a sacred place where four granite pillars can be seen in the pre-dawn light – each engraved with a single word ‘Courage’, ‘Mateship’, ‘Sacrifice’, ‘Endurance’. The meaning of each one will become apparent as your trek leader describes the scene where our young spartans crouched low in their weapon pits in the pre-dawn darkness on the 26th August 1942 as they prepared to meet a ferocious attack from the cover of the jungle by thousands of elite Japanese troops.
After Reveille, breakfast and pack-up your trek leader will check your welfare then give you a detailed briefing of the day ahead where we cross the highest point of the Kokoda Trail on the Owen Stanley Range.
We then trek up towards the Boili Mail Exchange Point at 2005m AMSL (this is where mail carriers from Port Moresby and Popondetta exchanged their mail bags) then down to down to Crossing 1 at the junction of Eora and Wase Creeks at 1940m AMSL for morning tea.
