Pamagirri Aboriginal Experience

Pamagirri Dance Performance

Take your seat in the Rainforest Amphitheatre and admire the beautiful backdrop for the Pamagirri Dance Performance; a traditional dance performance depicting aspects of Aboriginal culture including animals, food gathering and hunting.
The rainforest serves as the theatre walls whilst sounds of wildlife provide accompaniment to the haunting sounds of the didgeridoo and clapsticks.

The Dreamtime Walk

The Dreamtime Walk is a half-hour guided tour along an all-weather walk-way modelled on the Rainbow Serpent gives you insight into Aboriginal traditions and beliefs and how several ancient implements were used.
Enter the Pamagirri Cultural Centre at Rainforestation and experience Tropical North Queensland through the eyes of the people who have been its custodians for tens of thousands of years.

Try your hand at boomerang throwing and after a demonstration and a few lessons, you’ll be ready to test your skills. The area is specially netted for your safety, as boomerangs do come back! Observe spear-throwing and be amazed at the distance your guide can throw spears using a Woomera. As a matter of fact, two of the Pamagirri Guides are in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest spear throws. Discover how the spear was used for hunting (imagine having to catch your own dinner for every meal!) and to uphold traditional law in tribal communities. Thankfully, punishments endured in the past bare no resemblance today.

In the midst of traditional Aboriginal dwellings, your guide will explain how didgeridoos are made and used in ceremonies, and then reveal the techniques used to play this haunting ancient instrument by imitating the noises of Australian animals like the Kookaburra and Kangaroo before you you try it yourself!

At the end of the tour, your personal Pamagirri guide will be available to answer questions and take photographs.

Extended Dreamtime Walk activities are available at an extra cost for groups to learn even more about the fascinating history of Australia’s Indigenous culture.

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This one hour experience is held daily at 12:00pm and 2:00pm (except Wednesdays when the park is closed).

The amphitheatre is wheelchair accessible and has a large protective canopy and tiers of comfortable wooden seats with the capacity for four hundred people. The dance programme is available in fourteen different languages.

Extended Dreamtime Walk activities are available at an extra cost for groups to learn even more about the fascinating history of Australia’s Indigenous culture.