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If you’re in the city of Melbourne but shorton time, you can enjoy guided cultural interpretive walk around the Royal Botanic Gardens just few minutes from the city centre. Here you’ll discover the plant lore of traditional foods, medicine and tools on site that was once traditional camping and meeting place for the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people.
For day tours, you can travel further of amazingplaces to discover. The heritage of the Great Ocean Road, Australia’s great touring routes, is from Melbourne. TowerHill Wildlife Warrnambool is the site of dormant where aboriginal people lived until than 30,000 years ago.
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Australia’s vast open spaces, endless horizons, blazing starscapes and ever changing landscapes makes it perfect for anyone to have unique outback experience. In what for many seems an arduous and challenging environment, aboriginal people excelled. The outback covers more than two thirds of Australia and in remote pockets, such as the central strong, readily blending with modern ways.
In selected places there are opportunities to gain an insight into traditional and contemporary aboriginal lifestyles as you the land through their eyes. Much of the outback is stronghold for the diverse and powerful art movement that has captured world attention. In many instances you can visit thriving community art centres and meet the artist and see their works first hand. In Central Australia, Alice Springs is the focal point for some of Australia’s quintessential outback experiences. Deep in the heart of the Western Desert, Uluru (Ayres Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) are two of the more well-known sites where aboriginal Australians’ cultural identity remains strong and intact. While youre in Alice Springs you can not only visit some of the local galleries and community art centres famous for bringing the aboriginal dot painting art movement to the world, but even join in an art workshop yourself. You can also get literal taste of the local life with bush tucker experience
Bush Tucker Yarn Tour at Ayers Rock Resort, Norther Territory.
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Boomerang painting at Narana Aboriginal Cultural Centre.
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2017 Mar-Apr, pages 10-14. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
