The wukulina Walk, Tasmania’s award-winning indigenous tourism experience, recently got included in Time Magazine’s list of the World’s Greatest Places.
Part of Discover Aboriginal Experiences, the palawa-owned attraction was vetted by the magazine’s editors and global correspondents.
What is the wukalina Walk?
wukalina Walk is a proudly Blak-owned business and different from anything else offered in Tasmania or even anywhere else in the world. Last year, it was hailed the winner of the Australian National Tourism Awards for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Tourism Experience.
Led by Aboriginal guides, the walk offers a rare window into Tasmania/lutruwita’s Aboriginal culture.
For the first two nights, hikers sleep at the architecturally designed standing camp, krakani lumi (resting place), in domed-ceiling huts designed to reflect the shape of the palawa shelters that once lined the east coast of Tasmania/lutruwita.
The third night is spent in a beautifully repurposed and restored lightkeeper’s cottage at the most northern end of larapuna (Bay of Fires).
A learning experience
Up to 10 people are led on foot by Aboriginal guides to learn about land and sea Country. wukalina guides have lived experience and thousands of generations of Ancestral connections to the knowledge they share. They share their knowledge and perspectives as they lead travellers through bushland and along the coastline of wukalina (Mt William National Park) and larapuna (Bay of Fires).
Hikers learn about the colonial history of Tasmania/lutruwita, and the brutal treatment of the palawa people. But the tour highlights their resilience, strength of culture, language and the ongoing connection that the palawa community has to Country.
