In this four-day tour, travellers can discover the Northern Territory’s superb landscapes and sites, including the town of Alice Springs, the ancient rock formations of Kata Tjuta and Uluru. This is Anangu land, so best let the local Mututjulu community show you the ropes. You’ll join an Indigenous guide on a Mala walk around the base of Uluru, dine under the stars and camp within privately owned sites on the Outback. Travellers will wander the immense landscape of the West MacDonnell Ranges, watching for wildlife at every turn, and hike through the natural amphitheatres, rocky chasms and oases of Kings Canyon, all the while learning the spiritual and cultural importance of the land to the local Aboriginal people. Throughout the tour, you’ll enjoy meals created using locally sourced and sustainably supplied ingredients, including kangaroo, emu, lemon myrtle, desert lime and wattle seed.
Natural swimming holes, laughing kookaburras and canyons that rival the world’s best: the Australian Outback has all this in abundance, along with the opportunity to engage with the world’s oldest continuous culture. Hop on a tour and you’ll experience the sights and sounds of the Outback – but have you wanted to taste the Outback too?
Intrepid Travel is giving travellers the chance to experience native Australian food on several of their Northern Territory trips. These native ingredients have been used by Indigenous communities for hundreds and thousands of years, but it’s only now that they’re poised to enter the mainstream.
This bush food experience was developed in consultation with Aussie bush tucker specialist Andrew Fielke with mindful guidance from local Indigenous communities. Intrepid and Fielke have intentions to put native foods in the spotlight, celebrating and preserving these traditional practices for future generations. They're doing it by engaging with Indigenous groups on projects and making special efforts to purchase menu items from Indigenous and ethically sourced suppliers.
Not many people know that Australia is home to nearly 5,000 edible plant species and the following four Intrepid tours showcase the best of the lot, all the while experiencing the sights and paying respect to the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet.
