Day description

♦  Day 1: Arrival Jayapura - Transfer to Hotel via Bukit Jokowi and Jayapura City Hill / Free Afternoon (No Meals)
Upon arrival in Jayapura, you will be transfered to your hotel in Jayapura City, around 40KM away from the airport. On your way to town you will make a photo stop at 'Bukit Jokowi' to admire Skyland. From here you have beautiful views over the pacific ocean towards engross and Tobati village, Holtekamp and the majestic mountains of Papua New Guinea country. You will also make a photo stop at 'Jayapura City' hill. Exciting views from where the city meets the ocean can be seen from here. You will stay in the best hotel in town. The hotel has a swimming pool to escape the heat of the day. In your free time in the afternoon, you can visit local markets to moderns shopping malls or old Dutch settlements at Dok 5.

Hotel: Swiss Bel Jayapura

♦  Day 2: Sentani Tour: Museum, Asei Island, Local Markets, Teletubies Hill (B.)

We will go on a tour around vibrant Sentani and its lake which is considered as the home of the rainbows by local poeple. First we will make a stop at the museum in Abepura which has a fine and interesting collecting of art from all over Papua. Then we will continue the small Asei Island in Lake Sentani using a local boat. There we will experience the traditional lifestyle of the Sentani fishermen tribes and see the unique bark painting which are typical local art in the island. You can have lunch at one of th local restaurants at the lakes. After lunch we will continue to visit a local market and end at Bukit Teletubies, or Teletubies Hill. It is a short climb uphill from where you can walk along the rigde of the hill to see green oases, lake views and teletubies like hills surounding you. A perfect place to end the day.

Note; Unfortunately it is not possible anymore for foreign visitors to visit Mac Arthur Monument. 

Hotel: Swiss Bel Jayapura

♦  Day 3: Transfer to the Airport (B.)