Okay, so I have it. A 3-page PNG Visa application form! Oh, to look at it and woner why it is so hard to come across one!
(Had someone told me I could download any of these forms online, I would have saved a few calls to PNG and wouldnt have had to wake up at 3am to speak to an official, 6 hours ahead of UAE time.)
To download a form, click here
The application form is simple and straightforward and they have rightly put in a question.
Have you ever been a patient in a mental home/institution or do you suffer from a disease which may constitue a health risk to PNG?
I wish I had enough space to reply!
No, I havent been in any mental home, but good question. I suppose no person in his/her right mind would consider walking Kokoda, seeing that even a simple application is hard to come by, concerned officials first ask why not try walking in India and why an Indian woman wants to do it...just what is in it for her?
Oh, yes, I do suffer from adrenaline defficiency which can be restored only through walking in rainforests and risk getting cholera and collapsing from exhaustion, being held up by kids with guns on streets etc!
If you can ignore these occasional bouts of insanity, I am a healthy, normal woman who wants to walk the Kokoda Trail in order to raise funds for an institution doing their best for the special needs children in the UAE.
Thtere, that's my reason to walk this.
Now to see what happens to my application. Fingers crossed!
"to walk the Kokoda Trail in order to raise funds for an institution doing their best for the special needs children in the UAE.
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You have made me proud of being your friend.
What a laudable objective for which you are willing to subject yourself to extremes of endurance besides exposing yourself to hostile conditions?
Hats off too you Anjaly.I wish you Godspeed
Thanks a tonne! Fingers crossed. Plenty of hurdles to cross before boarding that flight...
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