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Darwin & Bamurru Experience

There is no place to engage with local outback characters and where you’ll find dramatic sunsets and sunrises, and home of the Aboriginal people. 

Darwin is a tropical city with a fusion of cultures and is a great base to discover the amazing National Parks in the region.  Enjoy a full day Indigenous tour of Litchfield National Park.  Learn the real story. Let your local indigenous guide bring the spectacular landscape of Litchfield National Park alive on this in-depth and intimate day tour. Take the back roads from your Darwin hotel to the Finniss River and beyond. Stretch your legs in this shady riverside stop and boil the billy for a refreshing tea or coffee. Across the Finniss River you’ll enter Tess’s family’s country. Visit heritage places associated with Tess’s family. You’ll be exclusive visitors to beautiful Woolaning Spring and Tess’s family heritage; the sawmill camp her grandfather built there 60 years ago. In nature’s forest dining room, by crystal clear spring waters, enjoy a sumptuous lunch of local game meats. After lunch visit spectacular Wangi Falls, a popular dry season swimming spot and a special place for Aboriginal women. Cool off with a swim or explore the nearby forest, a seasonal home to a restless colony of flying foxes. The Reynolds River Track and two creek crossings will lead to heritage-listed Blyth Homestead. Tess’s uncle Max Sargent and Aunty Esther grew up here in this tiny, rough-hewn homestead built about 1928. Get a taste of life in the days of working tin mines and cattle, carving out a living in this rugged environment. No visit to Litchfield is complete without seeing Florence Falls from the plateau-top lookout. For the keen there is another opportunity for a refreshing dip in the clean, cool water of Florence Creek. Stop for an ice-cream in the pretty town of Batchelor, established in the 1950s to serve the nearby Rum Jungle mine and now home to the Batchelor Institute, focusing on the educational needs of indigenous youth. Settle into the comfort of your air-conditioned Landcruiser as the tour returns to your hotel in time to catch the sunset over Darwin Harbour, markets or nightlife.

Continue your Top End Vacation and enjoy a three night stay at Bamurru Plains.  Bamurru Plains is located just to the west of Kakadu National Park on the Mary River floodplains. A profusion of bird and wildlife are on the doorstep of a unique bush camp that exudes ‘Wild Bush Luxury’  and brings a touch of style to a remote and beautiful wilderness. ‘Wild Bush Luxury’ is a term we coined to encapsulate the style of experience at Bamurru. The focus of your stay at Bamurru is in the environment around you and the wildlife and birdlife for whom it is home. Each individual safari suite is designed to blend with the surrounding bush and as such exposes guests to the sights and sounds of the bush around you, whether it is the haunting call of a Whistling Kite, the raucous cacophony from the Blue-winged Kookaburras as dawn breaks or the sound of a full grown buffalo splashing its way through the floodplains just a short distance from your bed. The morning chorus of tens of thousands of Magpie Geese, after whom the camp is named, is an experience in itself.

INCLUSIONS

• Two nights accommodation SKYCITY Darwin
• Full-day Indigenous Litchfield National Park Tour
• Three nights accommodation Bamurru Plains, including transfers, all meals and activities

Based on departures:
August 1, 2011 - October 23, 2011
Price per person twin share from $4539

Bamarru Plains is closed November - January

Based on departures:
February 1, 2012 - March 31, 2012
Price per person twin share from $4459