Batji Tours - Walking Tour of Darwin
Experience Darwin through the eyes of it's Traditional Aboriginal Owners, the Larrakia. Robert Mills is a senior Larrakia man who uses his tour to educate visitors about the Aboriginal history and significance of the area.
Learn about the Larrakia Traditional Owners of Darwin with Batji Tours.
Walking Tour
Robert Mills Banyan tree Lameroo Beach
Daily departure walking tour (bookings must be made by 5pm previous day)
Learn about the flora, fauna and Aboriginal history of Darwin and its harbour.
Find out more about the different styles of Aboriginal art.
Itinerary
- 1000 Meet at the interpretive shelter at the end of Darwin's Esplanade (across from Holiday Inn)
- Your Larrakia guide will greet you and provide a verbal (in English) Welcome to Country on behalf of the Traditional Owners of Darwin.
- Begin the tour by taking in Darwin's enormous harbour from a vantage point on the Esplanade. Covering some 1000 square kilometres, Darwin Harbour once supported large numbers of Aboriginal people.
- Your guide will point out sites of cultural significance around the harbour and along the Esplanade.
- As you move along the Esplanade your Larrakia guide will bring the place to life with stories of its historical and cultural significance.
- Discover native flora along the way and learn more from your guide about the significance and uses of various plants to Larrakia people.
- Below the Esplanade, through a pocket of rainforest is Lameroo Beach where you will learn of the various marine animal totems of the Larrakia.
- Back on the Esplanade the tour takes you to historic Lyons Cottage which, was once part of the British Australia Telegraph Company’s network of stations.
- It now houses Aboriginal Bush Traders, is an organisation promoting Indigenous tourism experiences as well as arts, crafts and bush harvest items.
- Lyons cottage is also home to an historic photographic display of early Darwin including many images of Larrakia people from the first days of contact.
- Tour finishes at Tourism Top End (Darwin Visitor Information Centre)
Price per person is AUD35.00
Reasonable level of mobility is required.
Minimum departure = 1 -
Children under 15 accompanied by paying adult are free
Group rates are available by prior arrangement.
Batji Walking Tours AUD35.00 per person
See Darwin's Esplanade in a different light.
Traditional Larrakia Welcome to Country
Learn about the flora of the Darwin area.
