Aboriginal Cultural Daintree Rainforest Tour from Cairns or Port Douglas

This was a very unique, lively, informative and fun experience. A romp through the Mongrove swamps and a hike along the ocean beach, all with a spear for catching and cooking a crab and fish lunch, was a very memorable event. Likewise, the one-on-one informal conversations with local Aboriginal peoples and their stories about their heritage were a special avenue for understanding their culture and history.

What an incredible, authentic, full day. Exceeded all of my expectations, and my expectations were high in the first place. First, we were picked up from our airbnb in Cairns. It was a beautiful drive to Daintree, and the entire time our driver Bridgette shared fascinating facts with us about everything from the native people, animals and plants to information about just about everything we passed by. Bridgette was such a kind and intelligent woman! Loved her! Our first destination was the visitors center at mossman gorge in Daintree. We had some snacks, tea and coffee than head into the rainforest where we met our next guide, Skip. Skip was equally passionate and knowledgable. He took us through a beautiful path in the rainforest which is so beautiful you feel like you're in a dream, all the while telling us even more about everything around us, and some fascinating family history. After the walk through the forest, we sat down for some native tea and biscuits while Skip blew all of my minds with a didgeridoo demonstration. I've never heard technique quite like him, he was making sounds with the didgeridoo that I've never heard in my life. It was awesome. Lastly, Bridgette took us to Cooya Beach where we met up with Brandon. Another fantastic, interesting, intelligent man who gave us a short spear tutorial, and than took us through the mangroves to find some food. The group of us speared crab, and fish, found mussels and even gathered snails to be cooked later at Brandon's house. This part of the trip was more physically demanding than I expected, as we eventually found ourselves in somewhat thick areas of the mangrove trees, where you have mud up to your ankles and you have to step over tree roots with a height of anywhere from 3 inches to 3 feet above ground. Everyone did great, even the old folks in the group kept up, but I'd be lying if I didn't hear some grumbles not everyone enjoys mud up to their ankles. We than left the trees to walk in the shallow waters and beautiful flat sandy beaches of Cooya back to Brandon's house. He took us inside his home, showed us how to cook everything, and added an extremely tasty blend of spices to what we had gathered from the several hours we spent at the beach. Everything was delicious, and to my surprise, especially the snails. A day, A crew. Small tour company with Aboriginal guides, hugely authentic exciting experience. Thank you to all three of our tour guides for making this tour a day that I'll never forget.

Fabulous tour and great tour guide

This was one of the best trips we took!!! We love our Driver/Guide he was just the best and so informative.our Aboriginal guide was wonderful and we loved our time hunting for lunch!! He cooked it up and it was so Delish!! My husband even managed to spear a Crab!!! Would defiantly recommend this trip!!!

I found that the customization of the tour by our first aboriginal tour guide was quite impressive. I doubt that on any other tour in my life, I will get to taste and smell green ants. Our tour guide who drove us to the Daintree and described a brief history of the aboriginals in the area and the language groups was quite articulate, kind, and open to questions. I would recommend this tour to anyone.