Mount Hagen Festival August 2014

Perhaps the most famous cultural show in Papua New Guinea, Trans Niugini has now been offering itineraries based around the Hagen Show for 30 years! The Mount Hagen Show brings together sing-sing groups from all over the country in an amazing conglomeration of colour, beauty and culture. 

The Hagen show is held in August every year - and Trans Niugini Tours will be offering three escorted programs and one unescorted program in 2014. Escorted programs have the same guide throughout whereas with unescorted programs, you still have guides to assist you at each location, the only difference being that guides change at the different locations.

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Bali Remembers - Flight Pan Am 812 April 22nd 1974

Bali History: Remembering 107 Passengers and Crew on 1974 Crash of Pan Am in Bali

The Clipper Climax operating as Pan Am Flight 812 crashed into a hillside at Grogek, North Bali, on April 22, 1974.

The Boeing 707-321B with registrationN446PA was carrying 96 passengers an 11 crew on a flight that had departed from Hong Kong approximately four hours earlier and was scheduled to stop in Bali briefly before continuing on to its next scheduled stop of Sydney, Australia.

But passengers onboard the ill-fated aircraft were never to reach Bali, let alone Sydney. As the aircraft approached Bali from the north and it made an early and precipitous turn for runway 09 at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, slamming into a remote jungle hilltop 79 kilometers northwest of the airport.

Later, crash investigator were to determine that a premature execution of a right-hand turn in an effort to join the 263 degrees outbound track, possibly prompted by malfunctioning Radio Direction Finder, sent the aircraft and its passengers to their doom.

Today the tragic crash, that will mark its 40th year in 2014, is remembered at a shrine tucked away in a remote corner of Padang Galak, on the banks of the Ayung River. There, the names of the 107 who died in the crash are recorded on commemorative plaque, enshrined in stone and in the memory of the island forever.

(article courtesy of Bali Discovery Tours)

Nigel Mason - Bali Tourism Legend turns 70

On Sunday, April 13, 2014, Bali tourism legend Nigel Mason celebrated his 70th birthday surrounded by family, friends, co-workers and admirers at his Bali Adventure House Headquarters on the Bypass in Sanur.

The area was transformed for the occasion to accommodate a lavish food display, a full set-up free-flowing bar, ice carvings, a birthday cake that resembled a Harley Davidson motorcycle, dancing girls, snake charmers and a livery stable of large motorcycles and exotic cars. 

During the course of the evening a magnificent display of fireworks also graced the sky.

Counting himself a lucky man, Nigel spoke to the crowd thanking them for their love and support over the decades in Bali, paying special tribute to his wife Yanie and his two sons, Jian and Shan.

The Team at RP Marketing send sincere and heartfelt Good Wishes to Nigel