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Mutawintji, Kinchega and Lake Mungo Arid Lands Eco Journey
10 Days/9 Nights
Moderate Grade
Accommodated and Camping
Ecotrek’s Arid Lands Eco Journey takes in three of Australia’s most important and impressive arid
area national parks, including an internationally significant World Heritage Area.
On our tour, you explore the Burke and Wills legend while learning about the rich aboriginal history
of these National Parks. The terrain is magnificent with gorges lined with river gums, glittering
waterways, the shifting sands of the desert, the “Walls of China” and the occasional rock pool to
discover.
Mutawintji National Park (68,912 ha) is located 130 kilometres north-east of Broken Hill and is the
tribal area of the Malynkapa and Pandjikali people. Aboriginal people have been using the
abundance of natural food and water resources at Mutawintji for thousands of years — the area
known as the Mutawintji Historic Site (486 ha) was the place where initiation, rainmaking and other
ceremonies were held.
On the Darling River, the Kinchega National Park is remarkable for its representation of massive
River Red Gums and rare Purple-Wood Wattle Shrub-lands. The glittering waterways are
superimposed onto red sand plains, where emus, kangaroos, euros, and the endangered kultarr
dwell. The restored Kinchega Woolshed is listed on the NSW Heritage Register and as at Mungo,
Lunettes have discolosed many Aboriginal artefacts and fossils.
Mungo National Park the focal point of the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area is a
surreal, mystical place steeped in and renowned for its Aboriginal past. Here a wheelchair
accessible boardwalk enables all visitors to contemplate the variegated “Walls of China” ancient
lunettes which encircle the ancient lake bed’s eastern shore. The shifting sands of these
crescent-shaped dunes have unearthed a chronicle of Australia's unique mega-flora (Pre-Ice Age)
and the habitation of the first peoples, including the oldest recorded evidence of human ritual burial
on earth.
This tour will introduce you to the unique Australian outback in a way that you have never
experienced before. Walking through this magical landscape and meeting the local people is truly
an unforgettable experience.
| 30.08.2008 |
AU$2950 |
| 29.08.2009 |
AU$3127 |
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