'Welcome to Country' is a short ceremony introducing visitors to the spiritual country of our ancestors

Tour Details
Duration: 5 days, 4 nights.
Accommodation: one night Mungo Lodge, three nights camping.
Group Size: Minimum 4. Maximum 14.


Tour highlights:

• Conducted in a part of Lake Mungo and the World Heritage Area not open to the general public
• Walk through the Australian outback with its Indigenous Traditional Owners
• Cultural knowledge and scientific interpretation
• Learn bush skills as we go, including tracking, animal and plant identification, bush foods etc
• Nocturnal tour on the Mungo Lunette
• High quality lodge and camping accomodation

2008 Start Dates:
Monday 9th June
Monday 16th June
Monday 6th October


Price: $2449 per person
Single supplement: $240
Price includes:
All tours and guides. Pick up and drop off at Mildura.
Accommodation, food and all camping equipment.
Bring your own sleeping bags or hire one from us.


Day 1: Afternoon pickup from Mildura and travel to Mungo Lodge for your first night. Meet your guides over an evening meal.

Day 2: After breakfast at the Lodge, set out on your first days walk through undulating mallee and spinifex country. Learn some bush skills as you go, and arrive at the Willandra bush camp with a spectacular view over Lake Mungo. Greeted with afternoon tea, settle in to your camp accommodation, explore the lake bed, or relax by the fire while we prepare your evening meal.

Day 3: Greet the desert sunrise over the lake. After breakfast, a Welcome Ceremony followed by a full day walk (8km) with focus on cultural interpretation. Lunchbreak with a view of the 36km Mungo Lunette as it curves to the west. View ancient cultural sites, and learn why this area is so important to us and why it was placed on the World Heritage list for its unique cultural and natural values. Arrive at our bush camp in the afternoon. Relax at the camp and enjoy afternoon tea while you view the sunset on the dunes. Evening meal around the camp fire with an opportunity to venture out on to the dunes at night time and spot some nocturnal animals.

Day 4: a morning to relax, take photos, read books and chat with your guides. Perhaps learn some bush cooking skills such as making damper. After an early lunch, a half day walk north including the Mungo lunette, tea break with panoramic views, and then return through the pinnacles as they change colour in the sunset. Evening meal from the bush kitchen.

Day 5: After breakfast, explore the mallee and spinifex country to the east - a medium length walk including the old Mungo lunette and the remains of Joulni homestead where you will be picked up by bus and return to Mungo Lodge for lunch and return to Mildura.

Tour itinerary may change and is subject to weather conditions and cultural imperatives.