WILLANDRA LAKES WORLD HERITAGE AREA WALKS

Length of Tour: 5 Days

Tour Dates: Get a group together and contact us about a departure

Departure Months: On Request

Pickup Point: Mildura

Includes:

• Pick up and return to Mildura
• 1 nights Lodge accommodation
• Tents & camp beds
Meals
Aboriginal guides

Overview:

The Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, including Lake Mungo National Park, covers 240,000 hectares of a semi-arid mosaic landscape of interconnected dry lakes. Crowned by lunettes large enough to be seen from space, the lakes bear witness to extensive human occupation for more than 40,000 years.

Day 1: Afternoon pickup from Mildura and travel to Mungo Lodge for your first night. Meet your guides over an evening meal.

Day 2: After breakfast at the Lodge, set out on your first days walk through undulating mallee and spinifex country. Learn some bush skills as you go, and arrive at the Willandra bush camp with a spectacular view over Lake Mungo. Settle in to your camp accommodation and relax by the fire while we prepare your evening meal.

Day 3: Greet the desert sunrise over the lake. After breakfast, a Welcome Ceremony followed by a full days walk with lunch break and focus on cultural interpretation. View ancient cultural sites, and learn why this area is so important to us and why it was placed on the World Heritage list for its unique cultural and natural values. Walk the Mungo Lunette and arrive at our bush camp in the afternoon. Relax at the camp and enjoy afternoon tea while you view the sunset on the Mungo lunette. Evening meal around the camp fire with an opportunity to venture out on to the dunes at night time to try and spot some nocturnal animals.

Day 4: A morning to relax, take photos, read books and chat with your guides. Perhaps learn some bush cooking skills such as making damper. After an early lunch, a half day walk including the Mungo lunette, tea break with panoramic views, and then return through the pinnacles as they change colour in the sunset. Evening meal from the bush kitchen.

Day 5: After breakfast, explore the mallee and spinifex country to the east – a medium length walk including the old Mungo lunette and the remains of Joulni homestead where you will be picked up by bus and transferred to Mungo Lodge for lunch. After lunch return to Mildura

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