Welcome

Our tour group will be on the land of the Yolngu people for the next 12 days. This morning, we were given a formal welcome.

Yolŋu culture in East Arnhem Land is among the oldest living cultures on Earth, stretching back more than 60 000 years. The earliest history of East Arnhem Land is recorded in the paintings, dances and songs of Yolŋu, which tell of creation ancestors bringing lands and waters, people, animals and plants into being and laying down the Law that governs them all.

Tomorrow we head into remote country. I may have no internet connection for a while.