The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour: An Insight into the Ancient Aboriginal Culture

Experience the ancient Aboriginal culture on The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour. Join an Aboriginal guide for a 90-minute walkabout and journey into DreamTime in Sydney.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Cadman’s Cottage - The tour begins with an introduction, acknowledgement
    to Country and an ochre activity.
    We then move to Bligh Barney Reserve (right next to the Cottage), where - using seasonal native flora and fauna - the tour focuses on
    natural resources and purposes/uses of plants such as lilly pilly, cabbage palm tree, casuarina, lamandra,…
What's Included
  • Tour commentary
  • Aboriginal Guide
What's Not Included
  • Bottled water
Additional Information

Experience the oldest human civilization on earth through a 90-minute relaxed tour with an Aboriginal guide in The Rocks, Sydney, and immerse yourself in DreamTime, the culture of Aboriginal People.
illi-Langi The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour, fully owned by Aboriginals, was designed by Aboriginal Elder, Margret Campbell, a Dunghutti – Jerrinjah…

Location
Cadmans Cottage
George Street
The meeting place for your tour is outside Cadmans Cottage, 110 George St, The Rocks (on waterfront side, opposite the Overseas Passengers Terminal).
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Melainies2020
Oct 4, 2024
Great insight into Aboriginal culture - What a wonderful and informative walk. Our tour guide Amanda was great and gave us information to give better understanding of Aboriginal culture. She gave us personal insights and was willing to answer questions. The tour makes you look at everything differently. Highly recommend this tour. As an Australian, it gives you a different perspective of Sydney, one which is great to hear.
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Rosaliejr51
Oct 3, 2024
A must do tour - Our guide Donnia was generous and respectful in sharing her knowledge with our small group. Showing understandings of our capabilities, she was happy to modify the route if requested. This tour highlighted a different and very important perspective and understanding of the history and geography of the Sydney area in a tour that both visitors and locals would find beneficial and interesting.
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V379btharik
Sep 22, 2024
Immersive tour of aboriginal life - Emily, our young tour guide, was an excellent ambassador for aboriginal life. She was down to earth and gave a living example of life as a member of the First Nation. We were a small party of 3 people and we had an intimate experience. Definitely worth doing this tour.
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K3445nlkaym
May 29, 2024
Fantastic tour - Really learned a lot and felt we understood the history of the land and the way the land was cared for in terms of sustainability but also the cultural context. Helped us understand more about connection to the land itself & history vs very modern changes since invasion. Amanda was very generous and the tour was interesting & thought provoking for everyone in the family. The most powerful part was learning about the coastline changes. We made sure that later in our visit we kept our inner eye open - attaching a picture of the rainbow water near the shoreline on the boardwalk. Thank you.
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Devileyedog
Apr 20, 2024
Great tour on Aboriginal culture - Emily shared her knowledge with us which was amazing! It was a nice usually walk learning about the aboriginal culture. Very different from the usual other tours of Sydney. Emily pointed out the Spirit Gallery art store Because I was interested in purchasing an authentic piece. She did not steer me wrong! Take a look at that store right in the Rocks after the tour!
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Joanna_p
Apr 14, 2024
Incredible! - What a fantastic experience! Amanda was an incredible tour guide and truly helped share what it meant to be part of her tribe. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience, and learning about her traditions and history. Would highly recommend, and already have to my friends who live in Sydney.
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Linaz655
Mar 22, 2024
Eye opening - Really insightful and eye opening tour about the aboriginal culture and what has been lost due to the dark history of colonisation... A must do in Sydney - really enjoyed it ❤️
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Susanne_d
Apr 28, 2024
Learning about aboriginal culture - It was a lovely walking tour with a young tour guide who was caring about the needs and walking capacities of all guests.
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Christiane_r
Apr 3, 2024
not worth it - Our guide was not an indigenous and rather superficial. Kot what we and also the rest of the group had expected!!!
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Pipin100
Aug 15, 2024
Guide has not appeared - Unfortunately, our guide did not show up for the appointment. Then we had the problem that nobody had contacted us to tell us that the tour was cancelled or what to do now. So we contacted the office by phone. The office is very close to the meeting point at Circular Quay Station. Unfortunately, the address was not in our booking documents, otherwise we would have gone directly from the meeting point to the office. We were then offered to refund the money or do the tour the next day. We then made up the tour the next day.
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