Aboriginal Cultural Tours

Maruku Arts Dot Painting Workshop provides a fun introduction to Western Indigenous Art.

Join Indigenous artists and learn about the different symbols used to create beutiful works of art depicting Creation Time (Tjukurpa) stories. Create your own artwork to take home as a memento of your experience.

NB: No workshops are held during February due to extreme heat

Join the Traditional Uluru Family in their homelands and experience their culture and family history. Hear from the Traditional owners themselves on how Paddy Uluru fought for Aboriginal lands rights to where Uluru is today. See the waterholes his sons drank from on their first sighting of the rock. Try spear throwing and witness modern hunting and fire stick farming.

Your guide Sammy Wilson's traditional name is Tjama Uluru. He is the son of Yankunytjatjara woman named Nellie Kalkulya Wilson Uluru. A community chairman and government advisor, Sammy is also the first born grandson of Paddy Uluru the senior traditional custodian of Uluru throughout the fight for land rights in the 1970's. Sammy has worked as a tour guide for more than 14 years in Uluru and wants to share knowledge of his land so you enjoy more than just the tourist side of the rock.

Pukulpa ngalya yanama, nganampa ngurakutu... "Welcome to our country"

Come for the rock, discover the people.

Experience the oldest culture on earth with an Anangu (Aboriginal) guide and interpreter. Learn how the Anangu live in this extraordinary environment and connected with the land, as your guides share traditional stories passed down from elders and interpret rock art.

You will be collected by airconditioned coach and travel to the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre, where you’ll be welcomed by your Indigenous guide and interpreter.Your guide is Anangu (pronounced arn-ung-oo) and is part of the Mutitjulu community, the traditional owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

Enjoy a guided Mala Walk, you will enter the caves where the Mala (rufous hare-wallaby) people camped when they first arrived at Uluru and see the kitchen cave where they prepared their meals. You’ll see fine examples of rock art along the walk before arriving at Kantju gorge, a place of profound peacefulness surrounded by sheer vertical walls.

You will then drive around Uluru where your guide will point out important Aboriginal landmarks.

Finally you will join Maruku’s local Anangu artists for a fun introduction to the unique desert art form, dot painting. Be inspired as you learn about the symbols and painting styles used to create beautiful works of art.