Top End Dry Season Tours
Posted on 01 May, 2025 inMay officially starts the 'dry season' in the Top End. The temperatures are cooler, and the humidity drops. Rain becomes less frequent, and rivers start to recede. Warm days and cool evenings bring misty mornings on lily-covered billabongs. This time of year is known as "Yekke." For the local Binnij/Mungguy people, it's not the calendar but mother nature that dictates this change of season. Subtle changes in the environment, such as the bright orange flowers of the Darwin Woolybutt in bloom and dry winds, signal the dry season is here! This month also marks the start of Venture Norths award winning small group 4WD tours!
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Arnhem Land Tours into Mt Borradaile
Posted on 11 July, 2024 inMt Borradaile is a magical place. It's a registered Aboriginal sacred site in a remote 700 sq-km area of western Arnhem Land. Here, you'll see towering Arnhem Land escarpment and stone country containing some of the oldest and most spectacular rock art anywhere in the Northern Territory. As well as paperbark swamps and lily-fringed billabongs teaming with bird life, fish and saltwater crocodiles. Situated amongst...
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Cobourg Coastal Camp, our camp on Madjunbalmi land
Posted on 18 September, 2023 inAt the very top of the Northern Territory in Arnhem Land on the Cobourg Peninsula, the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park. This extensive Park includes the entire Peninsula, the surrounding waters of the Arafura Sea and Van Diemen Gulf. The landscape is rugged and remote, boasting pristine waters and white sandy beaches. The marine life is rich with coral reefs and seagrass meadows. Heralded as one of the best fishing destinations in Australia, Venture North Safaris are fortunate enough to have been granted permission by the Traditional Owners, the Madjunbalmi clan to operate a Tourist Camp here...
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Where to stay on the Cobourg Peninsula (Garig Gunak Barlu National Park)
Posted on 21 August, 2023 inCobourg Penunsula, Garig Gunak National Park. It's rugged, isolated, and boasts some of the world’s best fishing. Over 2,000 square kilometres of primarily uninhabited coastline, this diverse Peninsula offers brilliant white beaches, coastal mangroves, sea meadows and coral reefs teaming with abundant sea life. If you like to travel off the beaten track and experience some spectacular wilderness, this is your spot! With such seclusion, accommodation options are limited.
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Nitmiluk National Park
Posted on 03 March, 2023 inWith its rugged sandstone landscapes, walking trails, waterfalls and network of 13 gorges with spectacular cliffs that change with the light, Nitmiluk National Park is a nature-lovers playground. The question is, do you cruise, canoe, walk or fly?
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