"It is the desire to do something adventurous, at a time when frontiers, in the real sense of the word, are disappearing."- Michael C. Rockefeller.

Michael Rockefeller + The Asmats

Michael Rockefeller's disappearance in the Asmat area has propelled the Asmat tribe into the mainstream consciousness.

Michael Rockefeller had travelled to New Guinea to study the Asmat tribe and to collect Asmat art- intricate, world-famous tribal woodcarvings, sometimes fringed by ancestor figures.

Due to the headhunting practices of the Asmats, some speculated that Rockefeller had been killed or alternately drowned or attacked by crocodiles.

In 1969, the journalist Milt Machlin who had traveled to New Guinea to investigate the death of Michael Rockfeller had attributed Rockefeller's disappearance to a "tit-for-tat revenge cycle" initiated by the killings of members of the Asmat tribe by the Dutch in 1958.

Much of the art collected by Rockefeller remains in the Michael C. Rockefeller collection in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

Itinerary:

Day 1: Take a SilkAir flight from Singapore to Manado.

Overnight Manado in Kima Bajo Resort and Spa.

Day 2: Take an early morning transfer flight (or charter flight at additional cost) to Timika. Transfer to Mutiara Laut.

Day 3-6: It takes some 24 hours to get to the Asmat area where your journey and meeting with the Asmat tribe shall begin.

Day 7: Transfer back to Timika for connecting flight to Manado.

Day 8: Overnight Manado.

Day 9: Connecting SilkAir flight back to Singapore.