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Mandingalbay Authentic Indigenous Tours
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87 reviewsAbout
Mandingalbay Authentic Indigenous Tours offers a powerful and immersive connection to Country, culture, and community.
Led by the Mandingalbay Yidinji People, the tours take you from the city to the sacred—across the Cairns Harbor and into the heart of ancient rainforest and wetland Country east of Cairns. Guests enjoy exclusive access to an Indigenous protected reserve.
Through storytelling, ceremony, bushwalks, and traditional knowledge, they share their enduring relationship with land and culture. This is more than a tour—it's a living story of resilience, identity, and custodianship, delivered by Traditional Owners on their own land.
Sharing Culture. Walking Country. Living Story.
Join in for an unforgettable Indigenous eco-cultural experience.
What's Available
16 featuresECO Certified (Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
Available Tours
Deadly After Dark Sunset Cruise
Enjoy a Sunset Cruise like no other. As the sun begins to get low over the Great Dividing Range to the west of Cairns, meet your Mandingalbay Yidjinji guide and push off from Cairns Marina in our new, covered River Cruise vessel, bound for wetlands and mangrove forests of East Trinity Reserve. Discover an Indigenous Protected Area where ancient knowledge meets latest science to deliver world-first conservation programs. Cruise along an avenue of ancient mangrove forests. Upon arrival at the Stingray Shelter, enjoy the ancient Mandingalbay custom of a Welcoming to Country. Listen to Mandingalbay Yidinji rangers speak of ancient language, practices and traditional implements that are still made and used. Light Canapes and cold nonalcoholic beverages will be served throughout the evening by their team. After the event, cruise quietly through the beautiful mangrove lined waterways back into Cairns Harbour, revealing the beauty of the city lights from the water. Nothing compares to this unique nighttime cultural experience.
Half Day Hands On Country Eco Tour
Departing the Cairns Reef Terminal and glides across Trinity Inlet, dotted by yachts, and up Hills Creek to where the salty water meets freshwater flowing off the surrounding mountains. Welcome to an Indigenous Protected Area, the largest reserve of its kind in the world. The rainforest-clad mountains of Mandingalbay Yidinji lands is a bush supermarket and pharmacy abundant of food and medicinal plants used for sustenance and healing, which include edible flowers, sweet fruit and native herbs. The air is alive with a chorus of birds all year round, and in the winter months, a cloud of butterfly's filter the air with their wings as your guide takes you on a short trek at the base of Grey Peaks National Park.
Deadly After Dark Sunset Cruise + Outback Platter at Ochre
A new premium tourism package to elevate the way visitors are introduced to the Cairns and Great Barrier Reef region. Combining the magic of a Deadly After Dark Sunset Cruise with a specially curated and locally sourced Outback Menu at the award-winning Ochre Restaurant, this offering delivers a one-of-a-kind evening that celebrates Indigenous culture, local storytelling, and world-class cuisine.
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Reviews & Ratings
Colleen Lovett
Google review
Such an incredible morning spent with excellent hosts. This tour gives you experience on the water where we saw crocodiles and walking on Country and we learnt so much. Morning tea was great (scones with lashings of cream and delicious fresh fruit) and we ate this whilst watching a goanna visitor (or maybe he was watching us). We can highly recommend this tour.
Hattie McCann
Google review
The best thing we have done on our holiday. My mum and I absolutely loved this experience. The family are genuine and down to earth and they deliver a fantastically informative tour. I would have spent all day just listening to all of them. The youngest member of the team, Shirley, is a gem and an asset to the tour family. I cannot recommend this enough. Also, the scones were some of the best we had ever had and that is coming from someone from Devon, UK.
Lucie Cod
Google review
Absolutely amazing trip with the family. We were a family of 18 and it was just so special!!! Thank you again. We will be back!
Rob
Google review
Absolutely loved this tour. Staff were very friendly and knowledgeable. They were happy to answer any of our questions and made us all feel comfortable throughout the whole tour. Highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Thank you Mandingalbay Indigenous Tours 🙏
Kylie Brown
Google review
We thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the experience of the sunset cruise. The guides were wonderfully warm and welcoming on arrival, and we felt massively grateful for receiving the cultural knowledge they all shared with us throughout the evening. We were fortunate to have beautiful mild weather and calm waters, and despite it being almost dark and winter time, still had luck in having a croc pointed out to us swimming along near the mangroves. We hope this fantastic business continues to grow and provide even more opportunities for young first nations people to work and share their knowledge, and we hope to return sometime to experience the next phases of the infrastructure project at East Trinity reserve.
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Where you'll be
5/2 Pier Point Rd, Cairns City QLD 4870
Cairns City QLD 4870