1 Day Tiwi Islands Tour

Price: Adult $209.00 Child $167.00 Land Content (01/04/08 – 31/03/09)

Return Flights Adult $170.00 Child $110.00

Highlights • Bathurst Island • Tiwi and Aboriginal Culture

Visit the Tiwi Islands, off the coast of Darwin, for an Aboriginal experience with AAT Kings. Meet the community and learn about their culture and heritage

Make your own way to Darwin General Aviation Airport to check in by 7.30am.

After a 20 minute scenic flight (additional cost) you arrive at the Aboriginal community of Nguiu on Bathurst Island .

With your local guide visit the museum with its interesting displays of traditional art and depictions of the Tiwi 'dreamtime' stories and Early Mission Precinct with its unique Tiwi style Catholic Church.

Be taken through the successful arts and crafts centres and see where the artists work. At morning tea we spend time with some Tiwi ladies enjoying billy tea and damper while they work on their weaving and painting.

Your guides and the ladies also demonstrate their totem dances and perform a smoking ceremony to bless the visitors. Set out for a scenic drive through the wilderness of Bathurst Island .

Enjoy lunch and time at a waterhole for a swim. Visit a lookout, which is also the setting of a Tiwi burial site, and learn some of the complex rituals associated with the Pukamani Poles (burial poles)

. Learn about traditional bush tucker and medicine, and natural fibres and dyes on your return to Nguiu for your return flight to Darwin (additional cost). (L)

Departs:       8.00am Daily except Sat & Sun & public holidays (Mar - Nov) from Darwin General Aviation Airport
                       
Returns:      5.15pm approximately to Darwin General Aviation Airport