Travel 90km south from Alice Springs to Rainbow Valley
to meet your host, a Traditional custodian. Here we relax
over a mug of billy tea and are introduced to an amazing
Culture and Country. After lunch your host will share
the spectacular Art Site of Rainbow Valley where we will
experience, rock art, engravings and occupations sites never
before open to the public. In the afternoon your Aboriginal
guide will share the ancient landscape of Rainbow Valley
and explain some of its Cultural significance. In the late
afternoon admire the changing colours of a spectacular
sunset with a glass of champagne and light dinner before
we say farewell and return to Alice Springs. This unique
NEW tour blends Culture and Country with the bold beauty of Central Australia. It will leave you with Lasting memories and a greater understanding of Aboriginal Culture.
COST:
Adult - $165
Child (4-14 years) -$120
(This tour commences operation in April 2008)
INCLUDES: Touring, Guided walk with traditional owner around Rainbow Valley Art Site, transfers, lunch with billy tea & damper, light dinner with champagne, entrance fees to art sites.
DEPARTS: Daily at 11.30am
RETURNS: 7.30pm
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ITINERARY
1130 - Pick up by Alice Wanderer in Alice Springs
1300 - Meet at Ranger Station - Introduction over a cup of tea and damper/lunch
- About your guide and his connection to area
- Grandfathers country
- Cultural values/meaning for the area
- Wurre (young boy)
- Mpwelere (rainbow)
- Bush Tucker dreaming
- Ground design or Painting, mapping the area.
- Display area
- wiltja, grinding stones, flint stones, hailstones, spears boomerang, woomera, shield, tapping sticks etc.
1400-1600 - Rock Art Occupation Site Tour
- Carvings
- Scattered/variety of animal tracks, outlines, figures, symbols
- kangaroo, emu, water bird, possum, perente, goanna, turkey, small mammals
- Grind stones
- Paintings
- Hand stencils
- Charcoal
- Plant life
- Occupation/work/preparation sites/living area
- Quarry
- Sharpening/Refining stone
- Caves
1630-1730 - Introduction Wurre - Rainbow Valley walk and talk
- Wurre (young boy), point out sacred sites
- Mpwelere (rainbow)
- Bush Tucker dreaming, discussion on clay pan, refer/relate to rock art site (flora and fauna) tracks on clay pan
- Hailstones (Kunata)
- Dream line (Kulparilya – Haarts Range)
- Mushroom Rock
1800 - Dinner
- Light meal
- Glass of sparkling wine
- Sunset view
- Farwell
1830 - Return to Alice Springs
1930 - Drop off as arranged with Alice Wanderer in Alice Springs
