Illi-Langi the Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour

Be touched by the most ancient human culture on earth in a 90-minute leisurely walkabout with an Aboriginal guide in The Rocks Sydney, and journey into DreamTime, the culture of Aboriginal People.illi-Langi The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour is 100 per cent Aboriginal-owned with Cultural knowledge and expression from Margret Campbell-Dunghutti-Jerrinjah woman. It is led by Aboriginal guides who have her permission to share her cultural knowledge. The tour gives you the opportunity to discover how the ancient Aboriginal DreamTime is still alive within the modern Sydney landscape and how the billion-year-old harbour, marine environment, sandstone strata, waterways, flora and fauna and why it shapes Aboriginal thinking, behaviour and our engagement with such landscape.This 90-minute leisurely walkabout in The Rocks is a perfect introduction to Aboriginal culture showing a perspective of Sydney that is touching, enlightening and very informative. It is more than a simple walkabout tasting bush tucker.Itinerary features:

• Cadman’s Cottage – the meeting point for the tour, which begins with an introduction, acknowledgement to Country and an ochre activity.
• Bligh and Barney Reserve – using seasonal native flora and fauna, the tour focuses on natural resources and purposes/uses of lilly pilly, cabbage palm tree, casuarina, lamandra, braken fern, grevillia and Wollemi pine.
• Campbells Cove – offers amazing views of Sydney Harbour. Here, the tour focuses on the Aboriginal saltwater lifestyle and the spiritual importance of the Aboriginal sites, such as the harbour, Opera House/ Bennelong Point and Circular Quay/Woccamagully.
• Argyle Cut – learn about the importance of Earth Mother’s ochre (a natural paint), which exists in large clay pods on the wall of the Argyle Cut.

Please note: A minimum of 15 adults are required for a private tour. For group sizes with less than 15 adults, the equivalent price of 15 adults will be charged.

• Experience a local Aboriginal greeting and learn reasons why our acknowledgement of country exist today
• Meet knowledgeable Aboriginal guides hear some of the recovery Aboriginal language
• Participate in a Sydney cultural acknowledgement of Earth Mother using her ochre (traditional paint)
• Opportunity to handle cultural objects and materials
• Learn about the Aboriginal DreamTime, it’s origin, history and culture
• Understanding the connection between modern Sydney and the Aboriginal Dreaming.

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