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Depart Darwin along the Arnhem Highway and travel into Kakadu National Park. Visit the Warradjan Cultural Centre, then cruise Yellow Water Billabong with a local guide to look for saltwater crocodiles and birdlife. After lunch, walk with your Driver Guide at Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) to view the rock art galleries. An optional 50-minute scenic flight is available.

Meals: Lunch

Explore Ubirr’s Aboriginal rock art galleries and climb to the lookout over the wetlands. Take the Guluyambi Cruise on the East Alligator River, where an Aboriginal guide shares cultural knowledge, local mythology, information about the river’s food chain and bush survival skills. With permission from local people, go ashore in Arnhem Land. Visit Marrawuddi Art Gallery before returning to Darwin.

Meals: Lunch

Ferry to Wurrumiyanga on Bathurst Island and meet your guide for a visit to the Tiwi Design Art Centre. Take part in a screen-printing workshop, choosing a Tiwi design to print on a take-home t-shirt, tea towel or fabric. Browse the centre’s carvings, paintings and fabric, and meet artists at work. Return to Cullen Bay on an air-conditioned SeaLink high-speed catamaran (approximately 2.5 hours).

Meals: Lunch

What’s included

3 lunches, one on each day
2 nights of hotel accommodation: one at Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel and one at The Leea Resort in Darwin
Travel between Darwin and Kakadu by air-conditioned coach, plus return high-speed catamaran travel between Darwin and the Tiwi Islands
Kakadu National Park ticket
Experienced Driver Guides with commentary, a local guide on the Yellow Water cruise, an Aboriginal guide on the Guluyambi Cruise, and a guide for the Tiwi Design visit
Kakadu sightseeing, including the Warradjan Cultural Centre, a Yellow Water Billabong cruise, rock art walks at Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) and Ubirr, the Guluyambi Cruise on the East Alligator River, an Arnhem Land shore visit and Marrawuddi Art Gallery
The Tiwi By Design cultural experience at Tiwi Design Art Centre, including a behind-the-scenes screen-printing workshop and a printed item to take home

What’s not included

Flights to Darwin and from Darwin
Visas, where required for your nationality
Travel insurance
Breakfasts, dinners and drinks
Transfers between Darwin Airport and your accommodation; arrange and pay for these separately
The optional 50-minute scenic flight over Kakadu
Voluntary tips for guides and drivers
Personal spending, including souvenirs, laundry and phone calls
Additional accommodation before or after the tour. The early departure requires you to arrange accommodation in Darwin for the night before Day 1.

Additional information

  • 3 Lunch (L)
  • Water bottle
    Warm layers in cooler months
    Enclosed walking shoes
    Sunglasses, sunscreen and hat
    Insect repellent
  • Flights to and from the start/end of your trip are not included in the trip price.Day Prior: Flights to arrive anytime into Darwin AirportDay 3: We recommend guests to fly out the day after the tour finishes in Darwin
    Airport to Hotel transfers are available to purchase on request.
  • Ubirr – Low to moderate level of fitness requiredWalk is slightly uneven around the base but quite steep on the way to lookout
    Nourlangie Rock – Low level of fitness requiredThe 1.5km walk around the base has built in steps along the path

Walk with your Driver Guide through Burrungkuy, also known as Nourlangie, to view Aboriginal rock art galleries beneath Kakadu’s sandstone escarpment. The route offers a close look at paintings in a landscape that has held cultural meaning for thousands of years.

Rock shelters and stone outcrops give this visit a strong sense of place. Your guide’s commentary helps connect the artworks with Kakadu’s enduring Aboriginal heritage. The approximately 1.5-kilometre walk around the base includes steps along the path.

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Cruise Yellow Water Billabong with a local guide through one of Kakadu’s celebrated wetland habitats. Watch the water’s edge for saltwater crocodiles and scan the floodplain for the colourful birdlife that gathers among its channels and vegetation.

Known locally as Ngurrungurrudjba, this wetland changes character with the seasons as water spreads across or retreats from the floodplain. Travelling by boat brings you close to its sounds and textures while your guide helps reveal the wildlife supported by this remarkable ecosystem.

Explore the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Kakadu National Park, where displays introduce the traditions and continuing connections to Country of the park’s Aboriginal people. Learn about cultural practices and the significance of Kakadu’s varied landscapes.

The centre offers valuable context for the rock art, wetlands and wildlife encountered across the park. Its exhibitions present Kakadu as a living cultural landscape, shaped by generations of knowledge rather than simply a collection of scenic sites.

Explore Ubirr’s Aboriginal rock art galleries with your Driver Guide in Kakadu’s World Heritage Area. Follow the walking route past ancient paintings and climb to a lookout for wide views over the surrounding wetlands.

Ubirr brings cultural history and landscape together in one distinctive visit: the galleries reflect a long tradition of Aboriginal expression, while the elevated viewpoint reveals the floodplains beyond. The ground is slightly uneven around the base, and the climb to the lookout is steep.

Join the Guluyambi Cruise on the East Alligator River with an Aboriginal guide. Hear insights into local mythology, the river’s food chain and bush survival skills while travelling through a landscape of deep cultural and ecological significance.

With special permission from the local people, go ashore in Arnhem Land. This access makes the experience particularly distinctive, offering an opportunity to learn from a guide whose cultural knowledge is connected to the country around you.

Visit Marrawuddi Art Gallery during your exploration of Kakadu to spend time with Aboriginal art from the region. Browse the gallery and observe how artists express connections to culture and Country through their work.

The visit offers a different perspective on the stories encountered at Kakadu’s cultural sites and rock art galleries. In a contemporary gallery setting, living artistic traditions sit alongside the park’s much older painted places, inviting a closer look at the creativity of the Top End.

Meet your guide at Wurrumiyanga on Bathurst Island and visit the Tiwi Design Art Centre for a behind-the-scenes look at its working studios. In an exclusive screen-printing workshop, choose a contemporary or traditional Tiwi design to print onto a take-home T-shirt, tea towel or piece of fabric.

Browse carvings, paintings and textiles, and take in the bustle of artists at work and music playing through the centre. Conversations with artists offer a personal way to learn about Tiwi creative traditions and the stories behind individual works.

Take an optional 50-minute scenic flight over Kakadu National Park for an aerial perspective on its immense Top End landscape. From above, appreciate the scale and contrasting forms of country that are difficult to grasp from the ground.

Kakadu stretches across roughly 20,000 square kilometres, encompassing rocky escarpments, river systems and wildlife-rich floodplains. A flight offers a broader view of this varied terrain alongside the park’s ground-level cultural and wetland experiences. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

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