KUKU YULANJI DREAMTIME

 

Kuku Yalanji Dreamtime offers visitors a 1 and a half hour guided rainforest walk around Mossman Gorge- the Kuku Yalanji people's backyard.

Kuku Yalanji are the indigenous inhabitants of the land which stretches from around Cooktown in the north to near Chillagoe in the west and Port Douglas in the South. They are true rainforest people who live in harmony with the environment. Their culture has always involved a deep resepct for nature and an intimate knowledge of its cycles.

Be guided along private, easy graded tracks, visiting special places and culturally significant sites, past traditional bark shelters and over cool rainforest streams.

The experienced interpretive guide demonstrate traditional plant use, identify bush tucker sorces, share their dreamtime legends, explain the history of cave paintings and provide an enchanting narrative of the rainforest and their special relationships within this unique tropical envirnment.

Be sure to check out the art gallery and visitor centre which stocks locally produced authentic Aboriginal art and artifacts, souvenirs and gifts.

Contact Details

AddressGorge Road, Mossman. QLD. 4873
Phone(07) 4098 2595
Fax(07) 4098 2607
Websitewww.yalanji.com.au
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