Jamara Baluk Immersive Art Cultural Tour

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Jamara Baluk Immersive Art Cultural Tour

Cultural and Theme Tours
2 min guests
6 max guests

Highlights

  • Experience traditional art techniques while creating your own possum skin story pelt in the stunning Grampians.
  • Craft decorative emu eggs and wooden throwing boomerangs during an immersive five-day cultural journey.
  • Enjoy a family-friendly atmosphere with private small group tours tailored for personal engagement.
  • Explore the natural beauty of the Grampians with convenient carpark facilities for easy access.

Unique immersive art cultural tour for five days and four nights to the Grampians.

Incorporating traditional art techniques and tutorials. Learn to create your own possum skin story pelt, decorative emu egg and wooden throwing boomerang.

Itinerary highlights

Possum skin story pelt workshop

Learn about traditional lifestyles and create your own possum skin story pelt using modern heat tools.

Bunjils Shelter

Ancient Aboriginal rock art site.

Little Desert

Wildflowers- over 750 species- bloom freely in the Little Desert National Park some 75 of these are grown only in this location. Visit Pink Lake. Visit Dimboola.

Boroka Lookout

Scenic views of rugged mountain ranges.

Tour details

  • Cultural and Theme Tours
  • Extended
  • Land – Motorised
  • Chauffeured Tour
  • Independent / Self-guided Tour
  • On-site Experience
  • Private Tour
  • Small Group Tour
  • Basic
  • On demand

Features

Service facilities

  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Non Smoking
Accessibility

Actively welcomes people with access needs.

General access

  • Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
  • Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
  • Employs people with disabilities.
  • Staff are trained in disability awareness.
  • Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
  • Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
  • Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
  • Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)

Communication

  • Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)

  • Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
  • Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
  • A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.

Hearing

  • Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.

  • Staff are trained in communicating with people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
  • Staff are trained in Auslan.
  • Caption all entertainment (TVs, live shows, performances) is available.
  • TVs with captioning option is available.
  • Volume controlled phones are available.
  • A low noise reception areas with hearing loss friendly acoustics and adequate lighting for viewing facial expressions (includes common areas which are free of background noise, background music) is available.

Allergies and intolerances

  • Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.

Operation information

Jamara Baluk Cultural Immersive Art Tours

Jamara Baluk is an Aboriginal female led, owned and operated immersive cultural art and craft tourism business, offering unique all inclusive packages incorporating traditional and modern art techniques and activities.

The tours include accommodation, most meals, art supplies, workshops, entry to attractions and return transport from Melbourne. Open and honest discussion is encouraged and will allow an indepth intimate opportunity for guests to understand local First Nations historical and current cultural heritage and gain a thorough understanding of how communities lived, learned and developed complex social skills including aqua farming and genetics.

Create popular items such as possum skin story pelt, decorative carved emu egg, wooden throwing boomerang and more. Explore soap and candle making using indigenous botanicals, cooking using bush herbs and other ingredients, possum skin ball making, dried flower arrangements, batik dying, beauty products using bush plants and botanicals. Make and enjoy a three course meal with bush tucker spices. Other activities on the tour include storytelling, stargazing, silicone and acrylic paint pouring and many other activities, with a maximum of three workshops a day. The workshops will be each day after sightseeing and activities.

Indigenous Culture

  • Indigenous experiences and/or cultural immersion
  • Indigenous owned and operated

Memberships

  • Professional Tour Guide Association of Australia
  • Visitor Information Centre

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