cairns aboriginal culture

• DIRECTORY: cairns aboriginal culture
• outback aboriginal culture
• tips for visiting aboriginal people

The Cairns region is home to a number of indigenous groups who graciously offer visitors an insight into their culture.

For visitors to Australia, one of the most fascinating aspects of the country is the tradition and culture of Aboriginal Australians.

In the past 20 years or so, indigenous cultural groups have developed exciting and educational experiences for visitors to learn more about their culture.

One of the country’s top cultural attractions is based in Cairns. The Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Centre operates out of a purpose-built venue at the base of the Kuranda Range, north of Cairns.

The Tjapukai people are one of the indigenous peoples of the Cairns region, specifically the area of Smithfield and Kuranda.

The cultural centre offers visitors art, dance, music and traditional storytelling as well as great food and a natural landscape.

Other areas including Kuranda and Mossman Gorge, north of Port Douglas, also offer educational and fun experiences with the people indigenous to the area.

outback aboriginal culture

For a Cairns outback experience, the Walker family of Wujal Wujal can take visitors through their ancestral lands explaining the traditional and cultural importance of each landmark, plant and animal.

Wujal Wujal is just one of the Aboriginal townships in the Cape York and Cooktown area that are open to visitors.

The Bama Way links unique tours from Cairns through to Cooktown.

Kuku Yalanji Cultural Habitat Tours, Walker Sister Tours and Guurrbi Tours, which are operated by the traditional custodians of the local area, showing different facets of Aboriginal culture.

The Kubirri Warra brothers offer unique beach, mudflat and mangrove walks.

For an incredible art and history lesson try award-winning Guurrbi tours outside Cooktown.

Nugal-warra Elder, Willie Gordon, takes guests to his ancestral rock art sites set in the hills above Hope Vale, which were once inaccessible to the public. Willie shares stories behind the art and explains how the paintings speak of the essence of life, the lores of his people and why conservation of the sites is imperative to the Nugal-warra people. Stories told on the tour can only be told by Elders of the Nugal clan.