MOSSMAN GORGE INTERPRETIVE WALKS

Length of Tour: 1.5 or 2.5 Hour Walks available

Tour Dates: Daily
Dreamtime Gorge Walk
Departs 9:00am, 11.00am & 3.00pm
Dreamtime Legend Walk
Departs 1:00pm

Departure Months: Available Year Round

Community: Kuku Yalanji

Cost: Dreamtime Walk 1.5 Hour Walk
AUD $45.00 Adult
AUD $22.50 Child

Dreamtime Legend Walk 2.5 hour Walk
Adult AU$65.00
Child AU$32.50

Return eco shuttle bus service from car park Adult AU$4.80 and Child AU$2.50

Pickup Point: Mossman Gorge Centre

Highlights Include:

Dreamtime Gorge Walk

• Traditional smoking ceremony
• Stories of the Kuku Yalanji culture and traditions
• Traditional huts (humpies)
• Swimming hole
• Rainforest bush food
• Ochre face painting

• Traditional smoking ceremony
• Visit sacred ceremony sites
• Stories of the Kuku Yalanji culture and traditions
• Indigenous cultural performance
• Traditional huts (humpies)
• Cave paintings
• Swimming hole
• Rainforest bush food
• Ochre painting

Overview:

Dreamtime Gorge Walk

Visitors are welcomed with a traditional smoking ceremony that cleanses and wards off bad spirits. The walk then meanders through stunning rainforest and takes in traditional huts or humpies. The experienced interpretive Indigenous guides demonstrate traditional plant use, identify bush food sources and provide an enchanting narrative of the rainforest and their special relationship with this unique tropical environment. A stop at the Beach, gives visitors the opportunity for a refreshing swim in this water hole, where your guide demonstrates traditions like making bush soaps and ochre painting. At the end of the tour guests can enjoy traditional bush tea and damper.

The Dreamtime Legend Walk gives visitors a more intimate look into the culture, spirituality and traditions of the Kuku Yalanji people and their unique connection with this ancient land. The experienced local Indigenous guide will share their dreamtime legends, demonstrate traditional plant use, identify bush tucker and explain the history of cave paintings.

The tour starts with a traditional welcome smoking ceremony that cleanses and wards of bad spirits. Visitors are guided through sacred ceremony sites, traditional huts or humpies and the rainforests unique flora and fauna. As the track meanders through the lush tropical rainforest the gentle rhythm of clap sticks and the haunting sound of a didgeridoo become apparent, an Indigenous performance awaits as you turn the corner to the majestic rock amphitheatre. Dwarfed by the towering rainforest and the ancient Kauri Pine Tree, the journey continues down to the creek where youll have an opportunity for a refreshing swim. Here your guide will explain the significance of the Gorge to the Yalanji people and demonstrate traditions like making bush soaps and ochre painting. At the end of the tour guests can enjoy traditional bush tea and damper.

Additional Comments:

By arrangement they can also provide corroborees in the form of a dance troupe for a traditional dance to add a unique feature to your special event.

For any enquiries regarding booking this tour, or for more information about what Diverse Travel Australia can offer, please contact us.

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