Cultural Tour activities in Australia
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Opera House Guided Tours
One-hour guided tours depart half-hourly (you’ll save $5 if you book online). Tours employ archival video footage to help tell the story of the iconic building’s construction. A highlight is the Utzon Room, the only part of the house to have an interior designed by the great man himself. For a more in-depth nosy around, the two-hour early-morning backstage tour includes the Green Room and stars’ dressing rooms.
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Yamatji Cultural Trails
Yamatji Cultural Trails will open your eyes to the customs, traditional practices, history and contemporary issues affecting the Mid West indigenous Yamatji people through tours to significant sites around Geraldton. You get to sleep under the stars and hear Dreamtime stories on the 2½-day tour.
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Tribal Warrior
Cruise, learn and experience Aboriginal culture and history on this two-hour boat trip, stopping at Clark Island for a traditional indigenous welcome. You’ll also be contributing to a worthwhile community self-sufficiency project. Bookings essential; no cruises Monday.
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Night Cat Tours
Experience the good, the bad and the ugly of nocturnal Sydney with a small-group tour through the city, Balmain, McMahons Point, Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross. The tour includes two drinks and dinner - a salubrious 'Tiger' pie at Harry's Café de Wheels that's a showstopper.
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Indigenous Heritage Tours
Hour-long Indigenous Heritage Tours explain the Noongar's connection with Rottnest and include the Quod, where many died, the cemetery, and stories from the Dreamtime. These excellent tours leave outside the visitors centre, also the place to buy tickets.
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Aboriginal Heritage Walk
The Royal Botanic Gardens are on a traditional camping and meeting place of the original owners, and this tour takes you through their story – from song lines to plant lore, all in 90 fascinating minutes. The tour departs from the visitors centre.
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Free Daily Walks
From the Salt Store you can join a volunteer guide on one of the Free Daily Walks that take in the settlement's historic buildings, the Wadjemup Aboriginal cemetery, the sea wall and boat sheds, the chapel and the Quod, or the lighthouse or quokkas.
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Oliver Hill Trains & Guns Tour
The Oliver Hill Train & Guns Tour, takes you by train to the 9.2-inch-diameter gun and tunnel on Oliver Hill (departs from the train station).
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School of the Air
For a back-to-school experience, sit in on School of the Air, which broadcasts to kids in isolated homesteads.
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