Q&A about Forest people meeting/trekking around jayapura vanimo.

On 29 Dec 20:08, yvoodr wrote:
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Hello :)
I read your posts about trying to trek In West Papua. I admired your courage in trying to try to find ways off the beaten track!
We want to go trekking in Feb/March 2012 and I'm trying to get as much information as possible (also to get away from paths over-frequented by tourists). Could you tell me where you got maps with such detailed town/village names? Did you use the Internet, or do you have paper maps?
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Yvonne

On 30 Dec 11:13, poondoon wrote:
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I never found any maps ! I was lucky enough to make friends with a local who had time to take me through the jungle.

We used the wood-logging company's cars to get to remote forest places and from there went walking to villages.

But as much as I know, even the "beaten" tracks are plentyfull of options and small villages to reach "mass-tourism-untouched" areas.

It will mostly depend on who takes you there !

IF you want more precise info about where i've been, ask me.
If you want to get in touch with the girl who helped me, ask me! she lives in jayapura.

Thx !
Antoine.

On 06 Jan 16:00, yvoodr wrote:
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Hello Antoine,
Yes, I would appreciate information on where you went, I'm sure it will be an inspiration. I am having difficulty in deciding which parts to go to! We did a weeks trek around the Baliem a few years ago and it was very beautiful then, with hardly any tourists.
I have read your post about walking from Jayapura. Did you also go somewhere else?

And how did you find guides?

Thanks, Yvonne

To: yvoodr
4 minutes ago
No i didn't go any where else except the walks we took from the end of the road you can take from jayapura towards east. This road is being built so it ends on roadworks camps with very welcoming people and many villagers go and work there so it's pretty easy to go walking to a small village from there ! Then you can hump to the next village until you reach real remote areas !

I didn't really meet any guide, my guide met me ! It was a girl from couchsurfiing that hosted me and I think she realised through me how lucky she was to still have suck preserved "untouched" life just near to her city, she'd never been in the forest before and she decided to take some holidays and come with me.
She spoke the languages and she was impressive in getting people to do what she wanted so everything got really really easy from there on !!!

Then she took another holiday to come with me to papua and did the same : go to the end of the road from vanimo and walk through forest from there.

It's a very cheap and easy way to get into the forest and meet the kindest people, but i guess it'd be very very hard to get to meet really untouched tribes this way... If any remains :)

I'll create a post right now so everybody can take advantage of the questions you asked and the answers i gave, tell me if you don't like it and i'll take it off !!

HI Yvonne,
Hi I'm Usman and I live in Jaya pura- Sentani.
I work as guide for tourism in Papua .
and I just back from trekking into the jungle meet with primitive tribes Koroway batu ( stone axes )
very very interesting trip. so if you interesting please let me know ok !

Regards from Jaya pura - sentani
Usman

Hi Ms. Usman,

My name is Elson Park, and I will be arriving in Jayapura on April 11th, at 7am, via Lion Air IW1789. I want explore Papua, but no idea how to do it, except that I want go visit Baliem Valley for several days. How can I get in touch with you when I arrive in Jayapura. I don't even have a hotel booking in Jayapura.

Thanks,
Elson Park