Bismarck Sea beach with True North in distance - Image supplied courtesy of North Star Cruises Australia.

 

Published in travel section of The Australian on 23 April 2016.

by Jane Freebury

Sepik welcome - Image supplied courtesy of North Star Cruises Australia.

It’s a slow reveal in first light after an all-night passage
along Papua New Guinea’s north coast. Yesterday from
our anchorage at Bagabag Island, we flew up the slopes of
the dormant volcano on Kar Kar Island, blanketed in
plantation sorghum and coconut, and did a lap around its
forested caldera. Could it get more exciting? Yes, it can.

Read on …

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/travel/papua-new-guinea-luxury-cruising-on-the-sepik-river/news-story/6e905d3d02a13c5c15c6d19e31ed983e

Images supplied courtesy of North Star Cruises, WA

Stilt village pm Lake Kambaramba - Image supplied courtesy of North Star Cruises Australia.