Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park Cairns

Kamerunga Rd Cairns , Queensland, Australia - Phone: 61 7 40429900
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    Attraction Type:

    History museum, Theater, Specialty museum

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    The Dreaming and The Stolen Generations

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    It's been an unfathomable puzzle about the Aborigines here in Australia and still trying to figure out attitudes and reality. They are like the invisible here in Cairns. I'd spoken to a few fellow travelers and some are equally puzzled and others have fallen into the same "I haven't taken any notice of them" until pointed out attitude that the …

  • 2

    Cairns

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    Arrived early in the evening at the Rydges Tradewinds Hotel, see MAP, GPS(16 54 58.45S 145 46 23.82E). The Tradewinds is really the property on the map identified as "Spa by the Sea". The hotel was very nice with a great pool and was right across the street form the Coral Sea. We had a great view from our windows and balcony, It was right on the …

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    Getting Whacked with a Boomerang

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    Hartely's Crocodile Farm
    - Bart, the HUGE croc
    - Sleeping koalas... They make a grunting, pig-like noise, can poop while sleeping, and sleep while clinging precariously to the tree branches.

    Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park
    - Tried my hand at tossing a boomerang. Mine came back, but went approximately 20 yards behind me.

  • 4

    A day in Kuranda

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    We took the Katoomba Scenic Railway up to Kuranda (a village in the World Heritage Rainforest) and the Skyrail back down. We visited the Butterfly Sanctuary, Bird World, Koala Gardens, and Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park.

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    Horseriding and a day in Kuranda

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    ... Railway. We were picked up from our hostel and taken to the Skyrail terminal. We had also booked tickets for the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, which is just next to the Skyrail terminal, so we went there first. The park gives a complete picture ...

  • 2

    Northern Queensland

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    ... its advantage, with the construction of several small theme parks for tourists. Among them are Rainforestation Nature Park, Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, and Kuranda Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, which extends for 7.5 km (4.7 mi) over World ...

  • 3

    Getting Whacked with a Boomerang

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    ... a grunting, pig-like noise, can poop while sleeping, and sleep while clinging precariously to the tree branches.   Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park - Tried my hand at tossing a boomerang.  Mine came back, but went approximately 20 yards behind ...

  • 4

    6 nights in and around Cairns

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    ... snorkelling in Fiji was good but, possibly, this was even better ? Day 3 began with an unscheduled visit to the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park. We were vaguely interested in seeing what it was all about, so were just milling about ouside the entrance ...

  • 5

    The Reef and the Rainforest

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    ... ride down the mountain in the afternoon.  We ended the afternoon with a very interesting visit to the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park.  There were several presentations  on the native religious beliefs on how the world was created ...

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    Cairns, Day 4

    ... I was glad to be back on the ground! Once we got down, we went next door to the rail station to the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park.  They tell historical aboriginal stories and do dances and there was tons to learns there! They had lessons on how to ...