MIMILI MAKU TOURS

Length of Tour:
One-Day or Half-day tours availabe

Overnight Camping available

Cost: Price on Application

Highlights Include:

• Tjukurpa - visit the sites and hear the stories of dreaming
• Bush tucker - learn how to find and dig for maku(withcetty grubs) or tjala(honey ants). Find other bush fruits and food. enjoy cooked bush foods. learn the Anangu traditional way to cook kangaroo tail.
• Bush Medicines - learn how Anangu people tradionally made and used medicines from plant and animal sources.
• Visit cave and rockholes where Anangu have lived and see their art.
• Traditional inma - view and participate in the traditional song & dance with music(this is seperately priced: dancers are usually older women and men from Mimili Community

Overview:

Mimili Maku Tours offers an authentic and unique Indigenous tourism experience to small groups of visitor who are seeking an opportunity to understand and gain knowledge about the landscape of the Everard Ranges and of the ancient indigenous culture of the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara people. All tours are met at the boundary of Mimili Community and there have the opportunity to listen to a brief talk, which provides and introduction to Mimili, its people and their culture and the stunning picturesque landscape around Mimili.

Mimili Maku Tours is managed and operated by local anangu people (mainly from the local community), Mimili and traditional owner homelands with the assistance of sympathetic non-indigenous Australians. It seeks to be fully self–sustaining.

Mimili Maku Arts is closely associated with Mimili Maku Tours, and provides opportunities for visitors to view and purchase local anangu paintings, wood carvings, woven baskets and knitted clothing. It is affiliated with support by Ku Arts, Ananguku Arts & Culture Aboriginal Corporation, which represents and advocates for local anangu arts and crafts.

Additional Comments:

Permits to Enter & Remain on APY Lands is Mandatory for all visitors: it is an offence to enter the APY Lands without a valid Permit.
Permit Cost: AUD $25.00 per person

Overnight bush camping at Victory Well
Cost: $15.00 per person

Lunch or dinner featuring traditionally cooked Malu Wipu(kangaroo tail)and including accompany tea/coffee.
Cost: $15.00 per person

For any enquiries regarding booking this tour, or for more information about what Diverse Travel Australia can offer, please contact us.

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