xmas 2015/16

Kia Ora
looking to plan a 6 week holiday over dec/jan 2015/16. will take my 10 year old girl. live in nz with nz and uk passport
I have two options
- fly to bali. travel from bali to png by boat then land etc. to pom then fly back to nz.
- fly to honiara travel by land, boat to png.

any thoughts would be welcome. thanks in advance for your help
cheers

I can use the advices too. Hope someone can furnish the info.

Seems this question has been asked on Virtual Tourist: http://forum.virtualtourist.com/Solomon_Islands-3214-2-10082374/Papua-to-Solomon-is-by-boat-malaria-precautions.html

Doesn't look too feasible, but hopefully someone with some up-dated information can help. I'll ask Ozziegiraffe (see her answer in the link).

The first option is easier legally, as there is an immigration post at the PNG-Indonesia border at Wutung. It would be easier to do it in the opposite direction, PNG to Indonesia though, because of visa issues.

thanks watsoff

Ozziegiraffe is off line for a while, but she did send me a quick not saying that she thinks there are 7 shipping companies that go to PNG from Australia. Not sure that's of any use, you might need to do an extensive Google.

This
http://www.auroraexpeditions.com.au/expeditions/category/papua-new-guinea
Is a small ship cruise line that operates out of Cairns, Queensland.
A few of the regular cruise lines do visit PNG and occasionally Solomon Islands out of Sydney or Brisbane. Other than that, the advice Watsoff quoted from Trip Advisor hasn't changed.

A 13 day cruise from Cairns to PNG for $9000+?
I could do a round-the-world trip for less! :-)

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