Aboriginal tours around New South Wales

From the Outback to the Blue Mountains, the North Coast to Central NSW, there are many opportunities to join a local tour with Aboriginal guides. You’ll get insights into this ancient culture, its survival tactics from bush tucker to bush medicine, music and ceremonial rituals.

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• Aboriginal Blue Mountains Walkabout guides visitors on a tour of the Blue Mountains Wilderness Area, including ancient art and ceremonial sites. Dreamtime stories and ochre painting are just two of the highlights on this magical full day tour.
• Harry Nanya Outback Tours is an Aboriginal owned and operated operator that provides interpretative tours of Mungo National Park and the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. From the town of Wentworth, you’ll travel into a remarkable corner of the state and unravel some of the powerful mysteries of the Barkindji people.
• Mutawintji Eco Tours, operated by Tri State Safaris, explores the scorched sandstone peaks of Mutawintji National Park, northeast of Broken Hill. The waterholes in the cracks and folds of the Bynguano Range made this a virtual oasis for the Aboriginal people of the outback, who left many examples of their art inscribed on the rock walls. The finest examples of this rock art are found in the Mutawintji Historic Site, a restricted area that can be visited only on a guided tour.
• Wiradjuri Wonders Tour in the Snowy Mountains highlights the relationship between the Aboriginal people of the Tumut River and the land they inhabit. Conducted by National Parks Rangers of Wiradjuri descent, the one-day tour looks at artefacts, hears stories about the land from an Aboriginal perspective and samples bush tucker.
• Warrumbungle National Park in central New South Wales has a discovery program escorted by Aboriginal guides from the local Gamilaraay people. Tara Cave Walk leads through quandong groves to Tara Cave, a site occupied by Aborigines for more than 4,000 years. On the Sundancin’ Tour, visitors can use their own vehicle to follow the ranger and a local Aboriginal elder on a nature tour to the Pilliga Nature Reserve, with an explanation of food and medicine plants along the way.
• The Mehi Murri Tour of Moree in Gamilaraay country takes you to various significant landmarks around the North West NSW town, presenting an Aboriginal historical perspective of life growing up in Moree. The tour finishes at the Mehi Murri Art Studio to give you an opportunity to to meet with, interact, and hear the Murri's share their stories of their life growing up in Moree.
• Brewarrina Fish Trap Tours in Outback New South Wales explain the engineering behind the stone fish traps that local Aboriginal people used for many thousands of years on the bed of the Barwon River. Stretching for about half a kilometre along the river, the fish traps consist of a series of stone weirs and ponds arranged to form a ‘net’ across the river.
• Wigay Aboriginal Culture Park at Kempsey in northern New South Wales provides an experience with the local Dhanggatti people. The park’s one-hour tour includes a didgeridoo demonstration and an introduction to bush food and medicine.