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As a valued agent www.australia4tours.com offer tours from Adventure Tours Australia an award winning company specialising in active, small group safaris for the adventurous traveller. We offer an extensive range of tours here exploring the highlights and hidden delights of Australia. Our tours are nature-based with the emphasis on the unique scenery, wildlife and Aboriginal culture of each area and they cater for everyone from the fit and adventurous who want to get off the beaten track to those who prefer the sound of ‘soft adventure’ and more comfortable facilities!

Uluru / Ayers Rock

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta region is rich in indigenous culture and many options exist for travellers who want to learn about the area from an Aboriginal perspective, whether by visiting Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre, buying local art or joining a tour with a local Aboriginal guide.

Anangu Waai Tours

Half day tour with local Aboriginal guides, providing a unique insight into the culture and Law of Uluru and its people. Combine with Camel Touring for a truly unique experience. http://www.australia4tours.com

Ubirr

The mystical Aboriginal art and extraordinary 360-degree views from Ubirr are not to be missed. Climb to the rocky lookout at Ubirr and be awe-struck by the floodplains and the dramatic escarpment unfolding before you.

Take time to enjoy the ancient stories in the Aboriginal art as you stroll along the circular pathway at the base of Ubirr.

Tiwi Islands

Melville and Bathurst Islands, known collectively as the Tiwi Islands, lie 80 kms north of Darwin. Famed for their distinctively colourful art, the Tiwi people have lived on the Islands for thousands of years and they welcome tour groups with dance and story telling. Aboriginal Culture -TIWI TOURS - Bathurst Island Many cities are blessed with island destinations close by, but only Darwin has the Tiwi Islands. The islands are home to the Tiwi people, coastal island Aborigines with permanent smiles. A day tour will provide you with an insight into the Tiwi people's culture and lifestyle. Even better, an extended tour on Bathurst Island will reveal to you scenes seldom viewed by outsiders and leave you with a lifetime memory and a longing to return. Our tours will provide you with a unique opportunity to share in the culture of the Tiwi people, learn about their legends and stories, see tradtional arts and crafts and witness ceremony and dance. You Haven't Seen The Territory Till You Have Seen The Tiwi Islands! Tours include return air fares from Darwin to Bathurst Island, tour, refreshments, meals whilst on tour, Land Council entry permit. Does not include transfers to and from Darwin Airport, own arrangements must be made.http://www.australia4tours.com

Aboriginal Art- Kakadu a Living Cultural Landscape. This image supplied by Adventure Tours. This image is shown in the promotion of the Aboriginal Cultural landscape Nourlangie Rock

Nourlangie, an isolated, rocky outcrop of the Arnhem Land escarpment, has sheltered Aboriginal people for thousands of years during the storms of the Gudjewg season from January to March.

Evidence of these storms is apparent in the famous Aboriginal rock art painting of Namarrgon, The Lighting Man.

Manyallaluk

We will take you on a "bushtucker" walk, show you the skills that we have learned and developed over thousands of years of living in this country, like; Spear throwing, fire-lighting and pandanus weaving.

We will also show our traditional way of painting. You can try all this with us. We serve a Barbeque lunch and salad with a choice of Damper and Kangaroo tail.

Our ART CENTRE will be open for you to visit and perhaps purchase a didjeridu or painting. All of the money spent here goes directly into the community art centre and to the artisits.
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The Nipbamjen camp is a simple yet comfortable bush camp. Guests sleep in a twin bed safari hut. The site is accessible to no other tourists except the guests of the local community. Its location is nearby a fresh water permanent waterhole, featuring a shaded sandy beach and clear water.
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Nyinkka Nyunyu

The Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre features an award-winning interpretive museum and art gallery that provides visitors with insights about the life and culture of the local Warumungu people. Art from the Barkly region is showcased through a program of changing exhibitions, which can be purchased through the museum's store.http://www.nyinkkanyunyu.com.au/perform.htm

Albert Namatjira Gallery

The largest collection of original paintings by this famous Aboriginal artist are housed here, along with works by his relatives and contemporaries from the Western Arrernte landscape painting tradition. Included as part of the Alice Springs Cultural Precinct displays.

The Northern Territory is like a complex patchwork quilt of diverse Aboriginal cultures.

There are hundreds of different languages, customs and laws, each woven together to tell a story that is more than 40,000 years old.

The Aboriginal story continues today. Aboriginal communities dotted through the outback landscape maintain a rich Aboriginal culture and many continue to practice their traditional customs and lifestyle.

Aspects of this ancient Aboriginal culture can be experienced through bush-tucker tours, story telling or traditional dance performances by Aboriginal people.

Aboriginal art is significant to everyday Aboriginal life. The creation stories, traditional laws and customs have been passed down through paintings and inscriptions for tens of thousands of years.

The Aboriginal people invite you to visit their land and experience their culture. The traditional stories, dance and paintings will help you to see Australia in a different light.

Did you know?

There are more than 40 different Aboriginal languages spoken throughout the Territory
Aboriginal people use 'songlines' to pass down creation stories, laws and trading routes through generations
Many of the national parks, including Kakadu and Uluru (Ayers Rock), are owned and jointly run by their traditional owners
Aboriginal people may have a number of names, for example a European first name and surname, a bush name, a 'skin name' (based on 'skin names' of parents) and perhaps a nickname
Aboriginal people recognise up to seven seasons of the year in the northern parts of the Territory and up to six seasons in and around Alice Springs. These seasons have distinctive attributes and relationships with the land and relate to bush food’s availability.

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