Overview

  • Features: Indigenous cultural extravaganza
  • Opening Times:  9am to 5pm & 7:30pm to 10pm, daily
  • Best Time to Visit: Night show
  • Duration: 2 to 3 hours
  • Transport Options: Bus, shuttle transfers, car
  • Cost: A$33 adults, A$17 children 5–14, A$83 families (Day tours); A$112 adults, A$59 children (Night tours)
  • Address: Captain Cook Hwy, Caravonica, Queensland, Australia
  • Type: Cultural Centre

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What We Liked

Fireside night-time dance.

What We Disliked

‘Bush tucker’ is an acquired taste.

Summary

If you’re considering visiting the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park near Cairns, you should read this article. You will find ten reasons why it’s worth visiting this indigenous cultural extravaganza. Also, you’ll find out what you can expect to see at the Tjapukai by Day and Tjapukai by Night tours so you can decide which tour is for you.

Tjapukai: One of the Best Indigenous Cultural Extravaganzas in Australia

 

If you’re considering visiting the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park near Cairns, you should read this article. You will find ten reasons why it’s worth visiting this indigenous cultural extravaganza. Also, you’ll find out what you can expect to see at the Tjapukai by Day and Tjapukai by Night tours so you can decide which tour is for you.

 

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10 Reasons Why You Should Visit Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park

  1. Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is one of the best chances you’ll have to discover the history and culture of the Aborigines without going to Central Australia
  2. From humble beginnings in 1987, Tjapukai has become a slick, sophisticated production, which has won multiple international awards
  3. Tjapukai is one of Australia’s most informative cultural attractions
  4. It is one of the few cultural attractions in Australia that returns profits to the indigenous community
  5. This park offers many opportunities to learn about indigenous Tjapukai people through exhilarating dance performances, hands-on workshops in traditional fire-making, spear and boomerang throwing, didgeridoo lessons, and talks on bush tucker and natural medicines
  6. You can buy Aboriginal artworks, artefacts, and instruments (including didgeridoos) on-site
  7. Buffet lunches and four-course dinners are also available making it a complete indigenous experience
  8. There are two viewing options – Tjapukai by Day and Tjapukai by Night
  9. The excursion doesn’t take up a lot of time – expect to spend two to three hours at this cultural extravaganza
  10. Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is easily accessible from Cairns (15km north of the city centre)

 

 

What You Can Expect to See at a ‘Tjapukai by Day’ Tour

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The Tjapukai indigenous show is housed in a striking modern building that incorporates Aboriginal themes and colours; the Tjapukai experience will take at least 2 to 3 hours. Daytime tours run from 9am to 5pm.

The Tjapukai indigenous cultural show starts in the Creation Theatre, where performers use the latest in illusion, theatrics, and technology to tell the story of the creation of the world according to the spiritual beliefs of Tjapukai people. Actors work with special effects and holographic images to illustrate the legends. The production is performed in the Tjapukai language, translated through headsets.

The show then moves you through the Magic Space museum and gallery section of the complex to the History Theatre, where a 20-minute film relates the history of the Tjapukai people since the arrival of white settlers 120 years ago.

Outside, there’s a cultural village where you can attempt boomerang- and spear-throwing, fire-making, and didgeridoo playing, and learn about bush foods and medicines. Shows and demonstrations are planned so visitors can move from one to another easily, without missing anything.

 

 

What You Can Expect to See at a ‘Tjapukai by Night’ Tour

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Tjapukai by Night tours run daily from 7:30 to 10pm. They include interactive time in the Magic Space museum, a Creation Show performance, and an outdoor Serpent Circle – an interactive show featuring tap sticks for each guest to use, a join-in corroboree (an Aboriginal night-time dance), and a ceremony involving fire and water. Following are a buffet dinner and dance show, and the chance to meet the dancers.

 

 

Tjapukai Address

Kamerunga Road

Captain Cook Hwy. (beside the Skyrail terminal)

Caravonica

Queensland

Australia

 

Tjapukai Website

www.tjapukai.com.au

 

 

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