Mandingalbay Authentic Indigenous Tours — Attraction in Cairns North

This is an excellent tour, with friendly, engaging, and informative traditional owner guides. I was grateful for their welcome to the land that their families have lived on for generations, and for the insights they shared with us. As someone who has had a long-term interest in Australian cultural history, I valued being able hold and learn about the manufacture of traditional items and wares. It’s one thing to read about and see items in books and museums, but quite another to hold and learn about manufacture from people who know how it’s done. Feeling the weight of a bloodwood club, holding a rock-hard piece of tree resin that can be heated and manipulated to haft an axe or join blades to form an X-shaped boomerang, seeing how a woomera is actually used – wow! There’s nothing like “hands on” to really gain understanding. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Cairns. For me, it was the highlight of our time here. Yeah, there’s the reef, and the rainforest, but there is so much more here in Cairns – take a glimpse of the depth of Australian culture that Mandingalbay tours offers you and gain a fresh perspective of Australia’s quite chequered post-European history. Along with meeting some great people, it will (hopefully) also leave you with much to think about afterwards, and I mean that in a very...

We just spent a wonderful morning sharing and experiencing a terrific Eco tour. Well organised ,easy access onto an open boat, travelled across the Cairns harbour to the inlet , learning all the time from the very informative guides, Alicia. We even saw crocodiles, as well as many beautiful local birds , and wildlife. Landed at a stunning shelter beside the Bund/wall. So much to learn and see. A comfortable and again informative drive to the Ranger station, where we partook in a welcome to country , smoking ceremony. Another great guide Vic , explained , taught and regaled us with great information. A terrific interesting walk up through native plants , trees , bush foods to a midden. Finished with a lovely fresh morning tea. A terrific experience all around A superb way to learn and share some indigenous...

The tour was terrible. We missed the tour because of wrong meeting point and time were provided by viator.com. However, we contact the tour organizer via viator's text message multiple times and did not get any answers. The hotel tour desk managed to find the tour company and call the company. We were told that they already left without us (8 people). I don't understand why the tour company did not check and answer my message when they found 8 people missing. The hotel help desk told us that this happened a lot with viator.com. This ruined one day from our two and half day vacation at Cairns. TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE!...