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Tours Include:

• Darwin hotel pick-up and return
• air conditioned, luxury 4X4 LandCruiser
• boat cruise cost and park entry fees
• local indigenous guide
• expert natural and cultural interpretation
• insight into the area's history and culture
• exclusive access to Woolaning Spring
• sumptuous lunch with local game meats
• spectacular waterfalls and stone country.

Terms and Conditions:

Northern Territory Indigenous Tours will endeavour to meet, but cannot guarantee, exact pick-up and drop-off times, nor that Tess Atie will be available to lead every tour.

Northern Territory Indigenous Tours reserves the right to amend tour times and itineraries, with no refunds, due to extremes of weather, road closures, emergency incidents or other unusual circumstances to ensure the safety of passengers.

Northern Territory Indigenous Tours will take all due care but accepts no responsibility for injury, illness, or other loss or damage to any person or property sustained while on a tour.

We strongly recommend you carry travel insurance that includes cancellation cover. Please make bookings with care. If you cancel a confirmed tour less than one week before departure, we cannot refund any part of the tour cost.

If you cancel a confirmed tour more than one week before departure, or if a tour has to be cancelled due to the Bureau of Meteorology issuing a tropical cyclone warning for the tour area, we can only refund 70% of the tour cost, as we still have to pay fees and commissions on the booking.

If you change the date of a confirmed tour, we will charge you a $30 administration fee.

If an exceptional circumstance (other than a tropical cyclone warning for the tour area) forces Northern Territory Indigenous Tours to cancel a tour before departure, we will fully refund the tour price to you.

Aboriginal day trips to Litchfield National Park

Your opportunity to:

• Be picked up and returned to your hotel.
• Travel back roads in safety and comfort in a modern, luxury 4X4 LandCruiser.
• Meet Top End birds, crocodiles and other wildlife in close-up, safe encounters.
• Exclusively visit the warm, clear waters of beautiful Woolaning Spring.
• Learn about bush food and medicines, and taste local game meats.
• Tackle the Reynolds River Track to historic Blyth Homestead.
• See Litchfield's spectacular waterfalls and learn their part in Aboriginal culture.
• Take home memories that will last a lifetime.

Tour components

note: there is not sufficient time to include all components in every day tour. 

Meet at your hotel

Meet your indigenous guide at your Darwin hotel to begin your day's experience of the best of the Northern Territory's Top End.

Crocodile and birdlife cruise on the Adelaide River

Get face to face with large saltwater crocodiles from the safety of of a 6 metre shaded boat on tidal reaches of the Adelaide River. See a variety of riverine birds and learn about their habits on this large, meandering tropical lowland river.

Territory Wildlife Park

Get a close up look at a wide range of Top End animals. Tess was a guide at this Territory icon for years and knows its residents first hand. She'll offer indigenous insights into the habits and origins of animals and traditional uses of plants you may never have imagined.

Woolaning Spring

Tess will take you along back roads, across the Finniss River, and into her family's country. You'll be exclusive visitors to beautiful Woolaning Spring and Tess's family heritage: the sawmill camp her grandfather built here 60 years ago. In nature's rainforest dining room, by crystal clear spring waters, you'll enjoy a sumptuous lunch of local game meats.

Litchfield waterfalls

After lunch you'll visit Wangi Falls, a popular dry season swimming spot and a special place for Aboriginal women. You can cool off with a swim or explore the nearby forest, a seasonal home to a restless colony of flying foxes. Later, short walks will reveal spectacular Florence Falls or the chasm of Tolmer Falls, where you'll get a close-up look at Litchfield's stone country and take in sweeping views over the lowlands.

Blyth Homestead on the Reynolds River Track

The Reynolds River Track and two creek crossings will lead you to heritage-listed Blyth Homestead. Tess's uncle Max Sargent and Aunty Esther grew up here in this tiny, rough-hewn homestead built about 1928. Let Tess paint you a word picture of life in the days of working tin mines and cattle to carve out a living in this rugged environment.

Back to Darwin

Settle back into the comfort of your air-conditioned LandCruiser as Tess returns you to Darwin in time to catch sunset over Darwin Harbour or the Mindil Beach Markets.

Wet season

From about December to May some roads in the Top End are closed by floodwaters. They include Litchfield Park Rd at the lower Finniss River crossing, the Reynolds River track to Blyth Homestead and beyond, and the track to Woolaning Spring. During this time we access Litchfield National Park via the pretty town of Batchelor. We can view Wangi Falls but they are closed for swimming due to dangerous waters and the threat of saltwater crocodiles entering the plunge pool. Despite these conditions this is a wonderful time to visit the Litchfield area. Waterfalls are in full and dramatic flow, the whole area is green and lush and alive, and you can usually swim at Buley Rockhole and Florence Falls in clean water without the dry season crowds.

Personalized private Top End and outback tours

Northern Territory Indigenous Tours also offers personalized extended touring to other parts of the Northern Territory's Top End and outback, such as Kakadu National Park, Katherine or the Daly River region, on a private charter basis. To arrange your unique, personalized Top End or outback tour, contact Tess at Northern Territory Indigenous Tours.