Dreamtime Southern X is 100% Aboriginal owned business running illi-Langi The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour. Private, group and school tours can be booked anytime. About The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour:
Be touched by the most ancient human culture on earth in a 90-minute leisurely walkabout with an Aboriginal guide in The Rocks, and journey into DreamTime, the culture of Aboriginal People and
legends of how their land was created. Get inspired as you discover the oldest ecology, conservation, sustainability, astrology and spiritual beliefs on earth today. Connect with Australian skies, lands, waters, and the experiences of 'always walking Country'. Feel empowered by learning how to teach others to navigate DreamTime pathways, whenever, in the city or out in the bush.
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illi-Langi - The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour was developed by Aboriginal Elder Margret Campbell and is led by Aboriginal guides who have permission to share these amazing stories. The tour gives you the opportunity to discover how the ancient Aboriginal Dreaming is still alive with the modern Sydney landscape and how the billion-year-old harbour, marine environment, sandstone strata, waterways, flora and fauna influenced how Aboriginal people lived in the area.
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Walking the DreamTime pathways and engaging with nature requires acknowledgement of the ancient DreamTime Custodian Creators – the original bestowal of custodianship of Aboriginal people of the natural lore, especially ceremonies associated with the places and spaces of the 29 Clan Families that make up Eora Country, now known as Sydney.
‘The DreamTime Southern X’ tours are brimming with knowledge from the oldest living ecologists, botanists, conservationists, wildlife totem carriers, astronomers, climatologists and marine biologists on Earth Mother today – The Aboriginal people. The Rocks Aboriginal Dreaming Tour Directors, welcome all people to learn about The Living DreamTime Culture in Sydney, Australia. TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
* Knowledgeable Aboriginal guides
* Participate in a cultural acknowledgement with ochre (traditional paint)
* 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. ITINERARY FEATURES
- Cadman's Cottage
The meeting point for the tour which begins with an introduction, Acknowledgement to Country and an ochre painting activity.
- Bligh and Barney Reserve
Using Bligh and Barney Reserve's native flora, the tour focuses on natural resources and purposes/uses of lilly pilly, cabbage palm tree, casuarina, lamandra, bracken fern, grevillia and wollemi pine.
- Campbells Cove
Campbells Cove offers amazing views of Sydney Harbour. Here the tour focuses on the saltwater lifestyle of the Gadigal people and the spiritual importance of the harbour, Opera House/Bennelong Point and Royal Botanical Gardens/Woccamagully.
- Argyle Cut
The Argyle Cut is used to discuss the importance of ochre (a natural paint). It exists in large clay pods on the wall of the Argyle Cut. TOUR INFORMATION
Tour operates 10.30am - 12 noon, and 1.30pm - 3pm Monday to Sunday (excluding Good Friday, New Years Eve and Christmas Day). Book via the 'Book Now' link on our FB page or our website for our daily tours , Schools, Groups and private tours: http://www.dreamtimesouthernx.com.au/
Tour departs from Cadman's Cottage, Bligh Reserve, 110 George Street, The Rocks, Sydney. Dreamtime Southern X also offers Wyanga Malu - a half-day mini coach tour; and Cultural Awareness Training. For more information, please check out our website www.dreamtimesouthernx.com.au
