Mandingalbay Authentic Indigenous Tours offers a powerful and immersive connection to Country, culture, and community.
Led by the Mandingalbay Yidinji People, the tours take you from the city to the sacred—across the Cairns Harbor and into the heart of ancient rainforest and wetland Country east of Cairns. Guests enjoy exclusive access to an Indigenous protected reserve.
Through storytelling, ceremony, bushwalks, and traditional knowledge, they share their enduring relationship with land and culture. This is more than a tour—it's a living story of resilience, identity, and custodianship, delivered by Traditional Owners on their own land.
Sharing Culture. Walking Country. Living Story.
Join in for an unforgettable Indigenous eco-cultural experience.
Hands On Country Eco Tour
Departing the Cairns Reef Terminal and glides across Trinity Inlet, dotted by yachts, and up Hills Creek to where the salty water meets freshwater flowing off the surrounding mountains. Welcome to an Indigenous Protected Area, the largest reserve of its kind in the world. The rainforest-clad mountains of Mandingalbay Yidinji lands is a bush supermarket and pharmacy abundant of food and medicinal plants used for sustenance and healing, which include edible flowers, sweet fruit and native herbs. The air is alive with a chorus of birds all year round, and in the winter months, a cloud of butterfly's filter the air with their wings as your guide takes you on a short trek at the base of Grey Peaks National Park.
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Hands on Culture - 2 Day, 1 Night Camp
An opportunity to escape to another world, where the Mandingalbay Yidinji lands offer truly wonderful sights, sounds and live experiences that are sure to captivate you.
Let their highly qualified guides show you the lands like you have never seen before. An unforgettable overnight adventure that will create long-lasting memories.
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Deadly After Dark Sunset Cruise
Enjoy a Sunset Cruise like no other.
As the sun begins to get low over the Great Dividing Range to the west of Cairns, meet your Mandingalbay Yidjinji guide and push off from Cairns Marina in our new, covered River Cruise vessel, bound for wetlands and mangrove forests of East Trinity Reserve.
Discover an Indigenous Protected Area where ancient knowledge meets latest science to deliver world-first conservation programs.
Cruise along an avenue of ancient mangrove forests. Upon arrival at the Stingray Shelter, enjoy the ancient Mandingalbay custom of a Welcoming to Country. Listen to Mandingalbay Yidinji rangers speak of ancient language, practices and traditional implements that are still made and used.
Light Canapes and cold nonalcoholic beverages will be served throughout the evening by their team.
After the event, cruise quietly through the beautiful mangrove lined waterways back into Cairns Harbour, revealing the beauty of the city lights from the water.
Nothing compares to this unique nighttime cultural experience.
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Mandingalbay Authentic Indigenous Tours
2 Pier Point Road,
Cairns City,
Cairns Area
Queensland
4870
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