Mungo NP NSW

After the disappointment of last year’s tour attempt being cancelled, today we were excited to be up before daybreak to make the 1.5 hour drive out to the World Heritage listed Mungo National Park, where we joined a local guide for a tour of the Mungo Lunettes - a truly remarkable outback landscape, a bit like the Pinnacles in WA but with more of a surface of the moon vibe.

Along the way we learned about Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, both ancient Aboriginal remains discovered at Lake Mungo and among the oldest human remains in the world, dating back over 40,000 years. Their stories reveal remarkable cultural practices and rituals, including Mungo Lady’s cremation and Mungo Man’s ochre burial.

Happily, the road out to the visitor centre had been recently upgraded, which meant the 86 km of corrugated dirt track we’d been mentally preparing for was reduced to just 44 km of fairly decent driving - save for a 3 km stretch where even the NPWS felt compelled to warn of ‘rough conditions’.

The early start was worth it, but definitely only because of the tour. If not part of a tour group you can only access the boardwalk viewing platform, which barely scratches the surface of how incredible the landscape really is.

The rest of the day was spent floating at the river, before dinner at the Mildura Brewery Pub (home of the Mallee Brewing Co.). A definite winner and fabulous way to end our repeat visit to Mildura 😊Read more