Harry Nanya Tours
Fast Facts
- Aboriginal tours of Mungo National Park
- 1,040 km west of Sydney, 34 km west of Mildura
Why go there
Mungo National Park, in far western New South Wales, is the site of the oldest known human remains in Australia, and has an Aboriginal heritage dating back 40,000 to 60,000 years. So who better to tell the story of Mungo than the traditional caretakers of the land.
Harry Nanya Tours has experienced Barkindji Aboriginal guides leading the way. Tours explore Mungo National Park, departing from Wentworth, Mildura, or Mungo Lodge – an Aboriginal-owned lodge with comfortable cabins on the edge of the national park. Road.
The Mungo tour takes you to the enormous flank of clay and sand that make up the Walls of China, and which surround part of the ancient dried-up Lake Mungo.
Another tour heads out to Lake Victoria, situated 60 km south of Wentworth, where Aboriginal skeletal remains reach back an estimated 10,000 years. Here you will see waterways floating with black swans, colourful parrots, and vast eroded cliffs on an Aboriginal-owned farm.
Incidentally, Harry Nanya Tours is named after Harry Nanya, one of the last aborigines in New South Wales to live by traditional hunting techniques. About 1860 Nanya left his camp and vanished into waterless country with two women and a steel axe. He reappeared more than thirty years later, with 27 children.
Don’t miss
- Your Aboriginal guide playing the didgeridoo at Mungo’s Information Centre
- Sunset at Red Top, where crinkled mud stacks change from khaki to blood red
- An evening of songs and stories, around the campfire at Mungo Lodge
