Tiwi By Design Day Tour: Glimpse into Aboriginal Community and their Rich Traditions
4.5
135 Ratings
Larrakeyah
Explore Tiwi Islands' Aboriginal culture with a local guide. Enjoy traditional tea, learn rituals, and join an art workshop. Limited tourism, unique experience.
Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • SeaLink Northern Territory - Servicing the Top end since 2013, SeaLink Northern Territory provides a safe, comfortable and reliable ferry service with state-of-the-art high-speed catamarans and friendly qualified crew.

Built especially for remote locations, the SeaLink NT ferries are capable of beach landings, carrying large numbers of passengers in comfort, and are all equipped with kiosks, men, women and disabled toilets, air-conditioned cabins, and spacious outdoor decking.

  • Tiwi Design - After a rest and lunch in the shade, it’s time to re-visit Tiwi Design and participate in an exclusive ‘behind-the-scenes’ screen printing workshop. Choose from contemporary or traditional Tiwi design to print onto a take-home t-shirt, tea towel or fabric – a wonderful souvenir of your Tiwi visit.
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • On-board WiFi
  • Lunch
  • On-board restrooms
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Visit a traditional Aboriginal community on the Tiwi Islands, off the coast of Darwin. Accompanied by a local Tiwi guide, you’ll learn about local history and Tiwi rituals by visiting all the places of interest. Share a traditional morning tea with Tiwi Islanders before taking an art workshop taught by Aboriginal artists. Tourism is limited on the island, making this a rare chance to visit this Aboriginal community that holds on tightly to its traditions.

  • This is a walking tour, an easy stroll over short distances between the ferry landing, art centre and mission precinct. Please note that the Bathurst Island Museum is closed until 2022, and is no longer included in this tour
  • Covid Procedures: We have always had stringent and rigorous hygiene standards, cleaning procedures and health and safety practices. During this time, we have stepped our practices and procedures up even further. Where possible we have made additional hand sanitisers and cleaning stations available to our customers and employees to exercise good hand/hygiene practices. We have also placed hygiene communications in our vessels, vehicles, accommodation, food venues, shop fronts/counters/terminals from the relevant health authorities.
Location
Cullen Bay Ferry Terminal
Cullen Bay Ferry Terminal, at the end of Marina Boulevard, Cullen Bay, Darwin. 5 minutes drive from Darwin CBD, free all day parking in off-street carparks.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Paul_g
May 21, 2024
Crocodile rock - We really enjoyed the various animal dances. Welcome to Country and the smoking ceremony were inclusive. Screen printing was educational and fun. The staff were patient with the group.
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Z6938dxkarinb
Apr 29, 2024
A Must do don’t miss out on this - This is a must do. thank you to all the mob for welcoming us to your land. Such an amazing experience and full of history and culture so much to take away for this amazing experience. Our guide was just wonderful Viviam thank you so much for sharing your culture and land with us.
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Iwsdora
Apr 28, 2024
Special visit to an unusual place. Privileged to have visited. - Highly informative and enjoyable visit. Vivian (Buffy) was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Fantastic lunch. Great artwork Great experience
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Sophie_b
Apr 16, 2024
Authentic, educational, Thankyou - Amazing day trip, local guides and artists, it felt authentic and its was super educational! Great lunch, Trip tan very smoothly I learnt so much!
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Anonymous
Apr 7, 2024
Tiwi Islands experience. - I enjoyed the entire experience - the ferry ride, welcome ceremony, morning tea, tour and history of the islands, lunch and the screen printing. All of the people involved in the tour were fantastic. The artists spent a lot of time ensuring our screen prints were works of art.
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Sharon_b
Apr 6, 2024
Wonderful experience! - Seeing and experiencing the local culture and creating a screen print t-shirt souvenir to remember my tour.
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Elkeb891
Apr 5, 2024
A great cultural and artistic day - I did this tour today and it was fantastic. The tour combined a great mix of experiences including the history of the island, the cultural background and making our own screen prints. Everyone involved in delivering the tour experience was enthusiastic and knowledgeable. We had enough time to choose and create our screen print with fantastic input and guidance from several screen printing artists. It was interesting to see the different items produced by our tour group. I thoroughly enjoyed the day.
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Marcus_d
Nov 5, 2023
Amazing - Vivian was an amazing tour guide; he really made us feel like his family. Thanks so much Vivian - everyone on the tour thought you were amazing. Alan, thanks also for helping us so much for helping us with the screen printing. I love this tour - 10 out of 10.
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Candiceo344
Nov 2, 2023
Highly Recommend - Had an absolutely fabulous tour with Vivian, who was an informative and patient guide, especially while I struggled in the heat! I learnt a lot about the Tiwi Islands culture and history. The Welcome to Country ceremony was great, being NZ Maori, we have a similar ceremony and it was wonderful to experience another culture. The art centre was great, and I am going to frame the art we did with AJ when I get home. I hope to visit again.
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Barry_s
Oct 28, 2023
A must see for all - A brilliant day out to see the lovely Bathurst island and Tiwi people. I made a tea towel, eat a great lunch and purchased a beautiful painting.
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