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The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour
Highlights
- Experience the ancient culture of Aboriginal people on a 90-minute guided walk in The Rocks.
- Engage with ochre paint during a cultural acknowledgement, connecting deeply with traditional practices.
- Handle authentic cultural objects and learn the Gadigal language, enriching your understanding of local heritage.
- Discover the links between modern Sydney and the Dreamtime, revealing the city's profound historical roots.
Be touched by the most ancient human culture on earth on a 90-minute leisurely walkabout with an Aboriginal guide in The Rocks, and journey into Dreamtime, the culture of Aboriginal People.
Aboriginal Guide has been hand-picked by the Elders to share their cultural heritage on The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour.
Topics include: Aboriginal Dreamtime: What is it? Where did it come from? How did Aboriginal culture originate from the billion-year-old natural landscape, skies, and waterways including Sydney Harbour and its foreshore environment? Who are Aboriginal Custodians? How did this originate?
The tour highlights knowledgeable Aboriginal guides, participate in a cultural acknowledgement with ochre (traditional paint), the opportunity to handle cultural objects and materials, hear and learn some of the language spoken by the Gadigal people, understanding the connection between modern Sydney and the Aboriginal dreaming.
The tour departs from Cadman’s Cottage 110 George Street, The Rocks.
Hours/days of operation: 10.30 am – 12 noon daily (except Christmas Day and Good Friday).
Private, group and school tours can be booked anytime (subject to availability). Minimum numbers apply
Itinerary highlights
Cadman's Cottage
Bligh and Barney Reserve
Using seasonal native flora and fauna, at Bligh and Barney Reserve the tour focuses on natural resources and purposes/uses of plants lilly pilly, cabbage palm tree,
casuarina, lomandra, braken fern, grevillia and Wollemi pine.
Campbells Cove
Campbells Cove offers amazing views of Sydney Harbour. Here, the tour focuses on the Aboriginal
saltwater lifestyle and the spiritual importance of the Aboriginal sites, such as the harbour, Opera House/ Bennelong Point and Circular Quay/Woccamagully.
Argyle Cut
Learn about the importance of Earth Mother’s ochre (a natural paint), which exists in large clay pods on the wall of the Argyle Cut.
Tour details
- On demand
Features
Service facilities
Sevice Activity
Disabled access available, contact operator for details.
Operation information
Dreamtime Southern X
Dreamtime SouthernX Pty Ltd is privately owned by Aboriginal People. It offers a suite of tailored products and services for tourism and education markets, that are grounded in Aboriginal cultural experiences of being greeted-welcomed to country, walking or travelling over ancient Aboriginal pathways tracing the ever-present Dreamtime of Sydney, delivered via a series of outdoor learning in continuity with nature/seasons, walking or travelling by bus or with a welcome to country.
Dreamtime Southern X operates in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities – Sydney, and has the added advantage of being a part of the most ancient human culture on Earth: the Aboriginal Peoples Dreamtime.
Dreamtime Southern X was founded and is managed by Margret Campbell, a Dunghutti-Jerrinjah elder. Margret’s reputation has led to her being recognised as a Tourism Champion by Tourism Australia, Destination NSW, and Indigenous Business Council, and endorsed by the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) Supply Nation and the Indigenous Business Chamber of Commerce.
The evolution, integrity and authenticity of Dreamtime Southern X products is inspired by Margret’s desire to build a mutual understanding and resilient respect between all Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people grounded on a deep, enduring connection to the Australian landscape.
Indigenous Culture
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Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- National Trust
- New South Wales Business Chamber
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
- Visitor Information Centre
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