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Established in 1984 Back Track Adventures operates two separate travel divisions from within our Brisbane office:

Back Track Adventures offers our own Back Track branded small group holidays to exotic locations all over the world. The trips we offer are the trips we want to do ourselves. All our trips are escorted from Australia and offer good value, service and adventure in a small group.

Back Track Travel Centre has been acknowledged within the 'Adventure Travel Industry' worldwide as a leader in retailing Adventure Holidays for over 25 years. We can take you to just about any corner of the world, either on a Back Track Adventures holiday, or with the best tour operators worldwide.

We offer our clients the highest levels of service and value with flight arrangements, and all the specialist services expected from a fully licensed and accredited Travel Agency. Most importantly our advice to you comes from consultants who know what travel is all about in the world's most exotic locations.

Peregrine Travel Centre.  Also from our Brisbane location we operate the Qld sales office for one of the world's leading Adventure Travel operators, Peregrine Adventures and Geckos Adventures. Peregrine and Geckos operate small group holidays worldwide with their head office located in Melbourne. To view the wonderful range of holidays available contact their Brisbane sales staff on 3850 7699 or go to the website www.peregrineadventures.com or geckosadventures.com

We welcome the opportunity to assist you in arranging the best holiday of your life.

Back Track Adventures is committed to Responsible Travel. No matter what you do or where you go, your mere presence will make some impact on any given environment. Our responsibility is to keep that impact short term and minimal. Click here to read more about our approach to responsible travel.

Back Track Adventures involvement with PNG and the Kokoda Track

We sent our first trekkers over the Kokoda Track as far back as 1985. Then, only a handful of people ever walked the Track in any year.  At the same time, we were involved in an ambitious trek into the Strickland Gorge in the Southern Highlands in the West Sepik Region. But in the following years, there was not enough interest  for us to continue to try and sell this trek. It remained the same all through the early 90's with public interest really only developing in the very late 1990's.

Interest in the history of the Kokoda Track grew due to many reasons, but after a  few Kokoda documentaries appeared on TV screens, theTrack was soon to be of interest to every Australian. These  documentaries nearly always  featured Australian sporting celebrities and actors struggling over the Track.  Though some of the documentaries were good and some very poor, they were always very entertaining.

With this renewed public interest and the then Prime Minister John Howard opening the remote Kokoda Memorial on the battlesite at Isurava on the 14th August 2002, Kokoda trekking was reborn. 
Back Track resumed commercially trekking the Kokoda Track that same year.  In that year, we sent two Teams of 15 trekkers each, professionally lead and organised, over the Track from Kokoda to Ower's Corner which is still our preferred trek direction. In 2002, in total 365 trekkers crossed the Track.  In 2009, 4,223 trekkers crossed the Track.

Since 2002 ,our trekkers have delivered large quantities of school books and school supplies to schools all along the Track and as well, we have supplied football jerseys, sporting equipment, trophies and prize money, to help develop and promote village sporting activities.

Health, education and village life sustainabilty are the major issues facing the people along the Track today. We have looked at these issues and have decided that the best course of action to help the communities is not to 'go it alone' but to work with others in a co-operative fashion and combine talents and resources.

From 2010 onwards, we are committed to assist an ambitious Village Homestay project being developed in the Kokoda area by the local community. Learn more, go to www.kokodahomestay.com

As well, we are about to launch the Kokoda Health Campaign. Learn more, go to www.kokodatrackhealth.com.au  

PNG has so much to offer the traveller. Back Track is proud to be involved with developing new tourism in PNG. From 2010 onwards we plan to gradually introduce new  PNG travel products and currently we have access to wonderful tourism product  through our Travel Agency Division. If you are considering a holiday in PNG and wish to know all your options, please contact us. Our Travel Consultants are only to happy to advise and assist you plan and enjoy a holiday in PNG - The Land of the unexpected.

Our proud Involvement in the development of the Adventure Travel Industry worldwide.

In the 80’s the Adventure Travel Industry was only a small part of the worldwide travel scene. From those very early years, Back Track has played an important part in the marketing and sales representation of leading domestic and International brands, many of which are leaders worldwide today. They include: Tailwinds Bicycle Touring Company, African Wild Life Safaris, Peregrine Adventures, Geckos Adventures, Alpine Guides, The Imaginative Traveller, Truck Africa, Encounter Overland, Worldwide Adventure Travel, Dragoman, GAP, Outback Camel Company, Guerba, Exodus and Classic African Safaris. We are proud of the part we played in the development of the Industry and bring that experience and knowledge into the development of new Back Track Adventures holidays.

Our Kokoda trekking philosophy

We strongly believe that our trek over the Track should be an adventure holiday, a cultural and historical insight, as well as a physical and mental challenge.

Our sensible approach to trekking allows for time to stop and enjoy the villages and the culture as well as gain a good understanding of the war campaign.

We acknowledge that for most trekkers, completing the KokodaTrack will be a tough physical and mental challenge. However, we also note that it should be a fun and rewarding holiday experience as well. Our sensible itinerary provides enough time to explore the overwhelming majority of battle sites and lesser significant historical war locations. There are half days as well ensuring a proper mix of effort and recovery and this recovery, or relaxation time, allows for an opportunity to meet and mix with the local people.

Our Trek Leaders love their job. They love sharing their passion with you for trekking the Track, while explaining the war history, providing an understanding of the culture and sharing the beauty of the jungle environment and the trekking challenge.

Most importantly, they will ensure that you finish the Track safely and with a lasting understanding of what the Kokoda Campaign was all about. The fascinating war stories, relived as you trek, of the soldiers who fought and died along every foot of the Track will never be forgotten.

Our ultimate aim for all our Kokoda trekkers is that we all, in some small way, gain an understanding of the challenges our soldiers faced and overcame, their courage, mateship, endurance and sacrifices.

Your trek over the Kokoda wartime Track with Back Track Adventures will be a safe, fun and a personally rewarding experience.

We would love to trek with you.

Licences, Insurances and Memberships

Travel Agent Licenses: 177 & 178

Memberships: AFTA, TCF, WTAAA

Directors are members of  The Travel Agents Compensation  Fund  (TCF File no: 2478). All client funds paid to Back Track Adventures are 100% protected.

To protect our travelling clients, Back Track carries a $10,000,000 Tour Operators Liability Policy through LLoyds of London

Back Track Adventures prefer to fly to Papua New Guinea with Air Niugini

Main Charity Support: Proud to support the work of NAFA (Qld) Inc

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