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# flight to PNG - tickets Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea
davidfinkelman 17:59 UTC 23 Jul 2008 | Please advise an agency to buy cheap tickets to Mt. Hagen (or other destination in PNG) from Singapore or from Hong Kong or from Europe. Thanks at advance, David |
Laszlo 23:54 UTC 23 Jul 2008 | The only "cheap" tickets to PNG are from Australia on Airlines PNG. If you don't want to go all the wayto AU, and want to keep things as cheap as possible, consider entering overland from Indonesia. See the PNG lin in my signo line for more. Fares from Singapore are high! | 1
davidfinkelman 04:01 UTC 25 Jul 2008 | Laszlo, thanks. Do you know if it is possible to get a visa for a short visit on the west side from png? | 2
Laszlo 07:55 UTC 25 Jul 2008 | You mean an Indonesian visa in PNG? You can get one in Port Moresby or Vanimo, but you may need to show a ticket out of Indonesia. If you have a ticket out of PNG, and explain you'll come back there, that might suffice. Remeber NOT to put West Papua on the list of places you plan to visit when applying: write there Manado and Bali. Once you have the visa, you can freely tour West Papua anyway, you'll only have to collect a travel permit (easy) from the police in jayapura. | 3
Laszlo 08:33 UTC 25 Jul 2008 | BTW, if you are travelling on an Israeli passport, getting an Indonesian visa could be more complicated - though probably still less so than getting an Israeli visa for an Indonesian! | 4
davidfinkelman 10:23 UTC 25 Jul 2008 | Hi all and thanks. It is not easy to travel in this small global village! I will try. Please add advises. | 5