Kakadu Animal Tracks Safaris offer exclusive, 7 hour safaris within Kakadu National Park that combines wildlife and aboriginal bush food (bush tucker) gathering, and many other interactive aspects of aboriginal culture with a real bush aboriginal guide, culminating in a traditional aboriginal campfire bush food cook-up at sunset. This tour is for open-minded people looking for a personalised and earthy experience. We show you the Kakadu you imagined.

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Our safari has exclusive access to 170 km. sq. of wildlife rich wetlands and tropical savannah woodland within Kakadu National Park including exclusive access to a seasonal unbelievable bird gathering spectacle. Small groups (max. 12 persons). We provide a truly unique and authentic experience. We stand out from the rest by providing exclusive wildlife viewing access, in an open-sided 4wd safari vehicle and extensive personal teaching from our expert aboriginal guide with a focus on hands-on activities that utilise all of your senses.

KEY POINTS

WHERE - Departs Gagudju Lodge Cooinda (near Yellow Waters), Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.(Click here for suggestions on how to get to Cooinda and the advantages of self-driving and buses from Darwin).

WHEN - 1pm daily (Dry Season May-October) and returns 8.15pm

PRICE - 7 hour safari $165 adult ($125 child 16 yrs & under)

HOW TO BOOK - Click here or on the Contact Us icon at the top

ITINERARY

At 1pm daily we depart Gagudju Lodge Cooinda, Kakadu National Park, in our open-sided specialised 4wd safari vehicle, with a maximum of 12 passengers. We drive a short distance to the Kakadu Buffalo Farm reserve, a wildlife rich area of 170 km. sq. that only this Kakadu tour is permitted to visit. Our bush aboriginal guide will then join us and from there we commence our adventure. Our aboriginal guide is searching for wildlife, bush foods of plants and animals, useful plants for making baskets, mats and shelter as we safari. We stop for many hands-on activities. Under the guidance of our bush-wise aboriginal guide we hunt and gather food, experience various bush medicines, and countless other authentic activities. It is possible to view many wildlife species on this safari with the highlight being an amazing wetland called Gindjala (Goose Camp) where from roughly July to September you may watch the largest bird gathering in the Top End at that time. At sunset, we make a camp fire at a remote location/wild viewing point and our aboriginal guide prepares bush foods using traditional aboriginal cooking methods. We also enjoy hot billy tea and fresh damper and relax to an amazing Kakadu sunset watching birds and animals on the move.

ABOUT ANIMAL TRACKS SAFARIS

Our day tours commenced in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, in 2000. The senior aboriginal land owner (now deceased) requested we commence tours to enable the Kakadu Buffalo Farm to continue to provide preferred bush meats (buffalo, magpie geese, wild pig, fish etc.) to the aboriginal people of Kakadu. We are a small, family business. The tour pays a large percentage of gross tour proceeds to fund the Kakadu Buffalo Farm which has continued to provide bush food to smiling faces. The land is Aboriginal owned and Kakadu Animal Tracks tours has been granted special entry permission and other privileges that are not offered on other Northern Territory tours.

We are a team of Kakadu locals (aboriginal and non aboriginal) aiming to provide Australia's best authentic 'hands-on' aboriginal tourism experience, combined with a unique wildlife safari.

We have a small group, interactive approach. We believe this is the most rewarding way to show you authentic Indigenous Australian culture and encourage understanding and respect.

QUALITY KAKADU DAY TOUR

Our traditional aboriginal tour guide was named Winner 2003 Northern Territory Tourist Awards as best Interpretive Guide NT and our Kakadu Animal Tracks Safaris has been a finalist in the Brolga Awards for the Aboriginal Culture and Heritage Category 2003, 2004 and 2005 and also for the Adventure Tourism Category 2005. You're welcome to look at our Guest Comments page for other guests opinions about this tour in Kakadu.

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