Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park

It’s a great cultural experience. They’re friendly share their knowledge. Especially, have to join the cultural creations and Indigenous Guided Bush Food Walk, traditional weave and Jewellery making,painting a boomerang and guide on a tour of the parklands learning about native plants, Finish Bush Food Walk having a taste of native fruits jam with bread and billy, it’s very delicious. Keep up the great work on sharing your culture!

This was a great cultural experience. Learned about the aboriginal culture in Australia’s rainforest. Everyone was very friendly and excited to share their knowledge. Can easily spend an entire day there, but half day is sufficient. Make sure to check schedule to be able to visit the shows. We paid a little extra for the cultural creations and were able to make a bracelet/necklace and paint a returning boomerang that we got to bring home. We were able to throw boomerangs and spears in an open field which was a lot of fun. For lunch, we got a tasting plate for 2 which had a great selection of Australian food (kangaroo, emu, crocodile, prawns, etc.). A must see for anyone wanting to learn about culture in Cairns area. Keep up the great work on sharing your culture!

Highly recommended experience with lots of different fun activities including spear & Boomerang throwing. The dance show was amazing as well. Special shout-out to the very friendly staff and guides!

Very interesting. The guided tour lasted 2.5 hours approximately with different stations. Our favourite being the boomerang and spear throwing (although we would have liked to throw more than 2 spears and 3 tries at the boomerang throwing, guessing this is because of the size of the last tour at 2pm for the day). We were disappointed that the boomerang painting was only at 11:30am. Also our guided tour didn’t do all the things promised in the brochure, we didn’t do the face painting or traditional oven demonstration and guessing other items listed were all done in the dance. None the less fun, informative and friendly staff. The cafe had delicious food for lunch as well.

This is a fun experience. The dinner show was fabulous. They interact with the audience. Our overseas visitors from California really enjoyed themselves getting involved in traditional tribal dance and fire making. Giving us all facial paint was also fun. The buffet food was fantastic. We planned it that we attended after catching the cable car down from Kuranda as it is located not far from there. Altogether a great experience and highly recommended.

I have a great interest in Aboriginal culture and this place blew me away. There is many displays to look at including a dance performance and guided experiences to take part in including boomerang & spear throwing, learning about bush foods and their rituals. There is a variety of experiences that are offered as extensions which I did both the creative experience & bush tucker & medicine walk which included lunch ($30) and afternoon tea.

We visited the tjapukai theater in the afternoon. After entering you see the hall where there is an exhibition of various things used by the aborigines, there art and culture. Then you enter the theater. Where a group of aborigine dancers welcomes you. Their leader was very funny and won over the crowd. They narrated their culture and traditions, their musical instruments and the importance of making fire using traditional methods. They were also gonna display the throwing of boomerang, but as it was raining heavily outside, they couldn't. But they displayed marvelous songs and dance of their culture. They also got the crowd involved, as their song had a nice rythm and beat to it. Has to say tjapukai theater is an impressive show.👌🏼👍🏻

We had the most amazing time here. Our personal guide was great and the chef was super accommodating in regards to food allergies. A fabulous place to learn about aboriginal culture.

I really enjoyed my time here! I went on a Thursday and got there right when they opened, so it was only me and two other people in our tour group, making it really nice. I bought the Full Experience which includes all of their activities in the day plus lunch! The boomerang and spear throwing were so much fun, and I feel like I learned a lot about the Aboriginal people and the rainforest. The food was really yummy and they had a wide selection! I would definitely recommend coming here at least once, and I would try to come on a weekday, because I'm assuming they are busier on the weekends!

amazing educational experience! kiera gave us a great tour. she definitely knew her trees, etc. it was so good to ask questions in a one-on-one setting. the demonstrations, especially spear and boomerang throwing were fun to experience. thank you so much for sharing your culture in such an open way!