Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

To Papua or East Timor

Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea

I'm coming from Europe..Should I book fligts to Bkk or Singapore first? Is cheap flights available from there?
Or should I go to Bali first....?

Well, Bangkok is a couple of thousand miles from PNG and East Timor, not sure why you would try to end up there. Maybe there are flights to PNG from there?? But Jakarta is a lot closer to both places. Or head to Brisbane or Cairns, Australia, maybe??

Laszlo and others that visit PNG would probably know a lot more on this.

Then again, go to www.orbitz.com, or just phone a travel agent.

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You should definitely go via Indonesia if you want to reach these places realtively cheaply.

From Bali you could fly to East Timor directly, or save quite a sum by going via Kupang in Indonesian West Timor.

PNG has direct flights from Singapore, but they are very expensive.
The cheapest way to gewt there is via Indonesia's West Papua.
The PNG link in my signo line has more on that.

Australia has good air links with both places, but that's an expensive way to reach them from Europe.

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