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Historical True Crime Walking Tour of East Sydney

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Historical True Crime Walking Tour of East Sydney

This two-hour walking tour uncovers East Sydney's ruthless criminal underbelly, when the neighbourhood earned the nickname 'Razorhurst' during the 1920s gang wars. You'll navigate the same streets where vice bosses, corrupt police, and murderers operated with impunity, exploring crime scenes, the former prison, and the homes of notorious operators. The tour weaves in the area's Victorian architecture, the underground jazz culture brought by American soldiers, and traces of hidden LGBT communities. You finish at Kinselas Hotel, originally a 1930s funeral parlour, with a digital casefiles eBook included.

Sydney City Walking Tour

A two-hour walking tour through Sydney's CBD that peels back layers of the city's turbulent past. You'll visit Australia's oldest European structures and learn about the convict era, Aboriginal dispossession, colonial rivalries, and the architects who shaped the skyline. The guide reveals lesser-known stories—corruption scandals, violent crimes, architectural ambitions—that built modern Sydney, moving through the CBD's most significant streets and laneways.

Alices Journeys Walking Tours of Daylesford 2.30pmFRI 11.30amSAT

Alice's Journeys leads small groups through Daylesford's architectural heritage and cultural landmarks, uncovering the town's layered past through a local guide's knowledge. The 90-minute walk visits significant buildings and sites, with entry included to the Daylesford and District Museum. Available Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, these tours suit families, groups and curious individuals wanting to move beyond the surface of this regional Victorian town.

Uluru Private Tour Aboriginal guided option

A four-hour private tour of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park led by guides with deep regional knowledge, available at sunrise or sunset. You'll navigate rock formations, waterholes and ancient art sites across the park. Optional: bring an Anangu guide to deepen your understanding of the land's cultural significance and storytelling. The operation is Australian-owned and works directly with the local Aboriginal community.

4 hoursfrom AUD $1100

★ 5.0 (35)

🛕 Culture & History

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Iconic Adelaide Walking Tour

A three-hour walking tour led by a lifelong Adelaide resident exploring the city's defining landmarks and lesser-known corners. You'll discover how Adelaide earned its reputation for progressive firsts—from political trailblazers to architectural gems—whilst understanding the forces that shaped its evolution. The route winds through the North Terrace Cultural Precinct, the Riverbank area, and past the Town Hall, revealing both celebrated monuments and hidden pockets locals know well. The pace is deliberately relaxed, with built-in stops to catch your breath and soak things in.

Taribelang Bunda Cultural Tours

Taribelang Bunda guides lead a three-hour cultural tour across the Bundaberg region, sharing knowledge of their 60,000-year connection to Country. Walk significant sites while learning language, artefact use, and the layered history of Indigenous and European settlement. Morning tea features native bush tucker prepared traditionally, offering a tangible sense of the landscape's cultural depth.

Badass Women of Sydney: Meet the Women Who Shaped the City

A two-hour walking tour through Sydney's Macquarie Street and The Rocks that centres the women whose actions rebuilt and redirected the city's trajectory. Led by She Shapes History, you'll uncover stories of publicans, nurses, writers, and Chinese migrants whose agency shaped neighbourhoods and institutions—the people absent from most Sydney history. This tour asks the uncomfortable question: where do women actually appear in this city's past?

Jellurgal Walkabout Small Group Tour

Walk Burleigh Headland with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander guide who shares Yugambeh country knowledge across two hours. The tour begins at Jellurgal Aboriginal Cultural Centre with audiovisual storytelling about Dreaming narratives, then moves into Burleigh Heads National Park to see sacred sites, traditional food sources, and coastal landmarks like Tallebudgera Creek. You'll hear how the Yugambeh people have maintained this landscape for millennia while watching for dolphins and sea eagles against Pacific views.

Perth's True Crime Tour

Walk through Perth's criminal underbelly on this 1 hour 45 minute guided tour of actual crime sites across the city. Your guide unpicks real cases—solved and unsolved—that shaped the capital's darker history, connecting infamous figures to the precise locations where events unfolded. You'll move between peaceful neighbourhoods and their violent pasts, gaining insider knowledge of the scandals and criminals that Perth has quietly absorbed into its urban fabric.

Ballarat City Tales Walking Tour

Wander Ballarat's laneways and backstreets on a 2 hour 15 minute guided walk uncovering the city's stranger stories. Visit the Town Hall, Mechanics Institute, and the spot where Peter Lalor fired up the Eureka rebellion, whilst a local guide reveals the oddities and histories tucked behind ordinary shopfronts. Stop halfway for tea, coffee or chai, then leave with a limited-edition art print of the city.

Walk on Country at Taananeditj (Rotary Lookout)

Walk the Rotary trail at Taananeditj with a Nyungar guide who shares knowledge of seasonal plants, bush foods, and traditional land management practices across ninety minutes. Based in Esperance, Western Australia, this moderate walk reveals how Country sustains itself through the year—you'll learn plant names in language, taste what grows here, and understand preparation methods passed down through generations. A chance to see the landscape through different eyes.

Treasures of Broome Tour

Spend four hours tracing Broome's pearling heritage with a guide who knows the stories locals live by. You'll watch the pearl harvest at Cygnet Bay, sample fresh pearl meat, browse the Black Stump Gallery's art, and finish with sunset drinks at Cable Beach. Transport, lunch at Mr Saigon, and beverages throughout are all sorted.

Historic Walking Tour of Glebe

Explore Glebe on foot with a guide who unpacks the suburb's layered past—from grand Victorian and Edwardian architecture to the industrial grit and wealth that shaped it. This one-hour walk happens Saturday mornings and reveals how Glebe became Sydney's most socially complex inner neighbourhood. You'll read the built environment like a history book, spotting the fingerprints of workers, merchants, and wealthy residents across its streets.

Ancient Egypt Night Tour

Step into a three-millennia-old world with a night-time guided walk through Cairns' Tomb of the Pharaohs, exploring eleven burial chambers and the rituals surrounding death in ancient Egypt. This 90-minute after-hours tour peels back layers of Egyptian funerary custom, revealing how pharaohs and queens were honoured in the afterlife. You'll move through recreated tombs that bring mummification practices and burial traditions to life, gaining insight into beliefs that shaped one of history's greatest civilisations.

Historic and Cultural Canberra Private Walking Tour

Walk through two hours of Canberra's political and cultural heart with a local guide. Starting at Parliament House, you'll see the marble grandeur of both chambers, then move through Old Parliament House Gardens where Australia's democracy took root. The route takes in a rare 1297 Magna Carta, the National Library's collection, Commonwealth Place's flag displays, and finishes at the National Gallery to encounter the world's most significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art holdings. Architecture, governance, and artistic heritage come alive through ground-level storytelling.

Badass Women of Melbourne Walking Tour

This two-hour walking tour threads through [Melbourne](/places/melbourne)'s CBD to uncover the lives of women who built the city's institutions, sparked movements, and shaped its cultural landscape. Starting from Parliament House and weaving through Chinatown and Little Lon, you'll encounter the stories of artists, activists, and entrepreneurs whose contributions have often gone unrecognised. A local guide leads the way, revealing how these women—from hospital founders to cultural innovators—left their mark on the streets you walk today.

Private Adelaide Walking Tour

A two-hour private walking tour led by a lifelong Adelaide resident who introduces you to the city's layered past and present-day character. Starting from the CBD, you'll navigate main thoroughfares and encounter key sites like Adelaide Arcade and Town Hall, concluding at the Central Market. Beyond architectural landmarks, your guide shares how historical currents have shaped the city's contemporary vibe and offers insider tips for the rest of your visit.

Adelaide Walking Tour: East End Escapade

Wander Adelaide's East End with a local guide who unpicks the suburb's layered past. This 2-hour small-group walk threads together colonial-era buildings, private residences, and public landmarks, revealing how the city evolved from its frontier days. You'll hear stories about the people who shaped these streets and neighbourhoods, getting a genuine read on what makes Adelaide tick beyond the postcard views.

Aussie Football MCG Matchday Experience with a Local

Watch Australian Rules football at the MCG, a 100,000-capacity stadium where the sport was born. Your four-hour experience begins with a guided tour through [Melbourne](/places/melbourne)'s sports precinct, covering the game's history, rules, and Indigenous roots. A knowledgeable local sits with you during the match, breaking down the action and helping you understand what's happening on the field. You'll have match tickets, a meat pie, and Australian beer included.

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) guided tour

When Ben from our team ran the NGV guided tour, we got a proper crash course in how to actually *look* at paintings rather than just walk past them. The 3.5-hour experience takes you through the National Gallery of Victoria's Western art collection—from Byzantine through to Impressionism—with a guide who breaks down what you're seeing in a way that clicks. You'll stand in front of works by Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso and others, and the guide hands you a laminated analysis sheet to keep. It's pitched at people new to art who want context fast, and it works just as well for families as it does solo travellers or locals filling a gap in their knowledge.

Port Douglas Sunset Photography Walking Tour

Walk Port Douglas as light fades across the coast, learning to frame shots that work with your camera or phone. A three-hour guided tour that pairs photography technique with local knowledge, hitting key vantage points around town whilst a guide unpacks the area's history and cultural landmarks. You'll leave with both better images and a clearer read on what makes this corner of Far North Queensland tick.

Sydney Queer Walking Tour

A two-hour walk through Sydney's queer past and present, tracing hidden Indigenous perspectives through colonial suppression to the radical 1970s uprising. You'll discover the stories behind Australia's most visible LGBTQ+ figures, the watershed 1978 Mardi Gras, and how the community navigated the AIDS crisis. Coffee or tea included.

Wunyami Cultural Tour on Green Island's Eco Adventure

Explore Green Island with indigenous guides who share traditional stories woven through the reef and land. This 7-hour experience departs from Cairns aboard a catamaran, taking roughly 45 minutes each way. You'll hear saltwater legends and Reef knowledge passed down through generations, led by Wunyami custodians committed to keeping culture alive whilst creating pathways for their community. Snorkel gear or a glass-bottom boat tour lets you move at your own rhythm, with cafés and a bar on the island for sustenance.

Hidden Adelaide: Laneways and Street Art Tour

A two-hour walking tour that navigates Adelaide's laneways and back alleys to reveal street art, murals, and the stories woven into the city's urban fabric. You'll encounter lesser-known historical figures, discover curious landmarks like Adelaide's tiniest door, and learn how local artists have transformed forgotten corners. The guide shares insider knowledge of the evolving creative scene whilst mapping out additional art spots and recommendations for your stay. A donation supports local charities.

Paint and Sip in Torquay VIC - BYO food and drinks

Spend three hours at C&C on Torquay's Bell Street, where you'll paint whilst your mates chat and sip. The studio provides all your art supplies, chilled wine glasses and ice buckets—you bring the food and drinks (or grab snacks on-site). It's a low-key spot to create something you'll actually want to hang on your wall, no experience needed.

Cassowary Coast Goondoi Culture Tour

Spend eight hours in Far North Queensland's wet tropics rainforest with Goondoi Culture Tours, learning directly from Indigenous guides about traditional land management, ecology and cultural practices. This operator holds Ecotourism Australia certification and reinvests in conservation efforts across the region and reef systems. You'll move through ancient forest, hear stories rooted in thousands of years of knowledge, and break bread with guides who know this country intimately. It's slower travel—the kind that actually sticks.

Cammino di Hepburn (Hepburn Walking Tour) at 5pm each Friday

A Friday evening walk through Hepburn uncovering the Swiss and Italian foundations of this Victorian village. Your guide explores how European settlers shaped the local architecture, institutions and character, whilst acknowledging the Gunditjmara people whose Country this is. You'll access heritage buildings normally closed to the public, finishing at a local pub. The tour runs 60 minutes and supports the Swiss Italian Fiesta community festival.

Ancient Egypt Sunset Tour

Step inside Cairns' Tomb of the Pharaohs for a 90-minute guided tour through 11 burial chambers, exploring three millennia of Egyptian death customs and royal rituals. Your guide walks you through recreated tombs of pharaohs and queens, decoding the artefacts and practices that shaped ancient funerary traditions. Time your visit for sunset to catch the atmospheric lighting, then settle into an optional three-course Egyptian-themed dinner at the on-site Squires Loft restaurant.

Historical Alice Tour

This 4.5-hour guided tour traces Alice Springs from its frontier origins through to its present-day character as the outback's nerve centre. Beginning with accommodation pickup, you'll visit key historical landmarks that shaped Mparntwe (the Arrernte name) and understand how the town evolved from its early Stuart settlement days. Your guide unpacks the stories behind the buildings and sites that anchored development across the red centre, with afternoon tea included and all entry fees covered.

Sydney Photography Masterclass - Private Photography Lesson

A three-hour private photography lesson in Sydney tailored to your interests, led by a professional photographer who'll teach camera fundamentals and composition while guiding you through the city's best-lit locations. Work through aperture, ISO and shutter speed settings, learn to frame compelling shots, and master night photography techniques as you move between landmarks like Luna Park, Circular Quai, Kings Cross and Mrs Macquarie's Chair. Groups of up to four shoot together, with time built in to review your work and refine your approach.

Brisbane City Art and Design Walking Tour

This three-hour private walking tour traces Brisbane's vibrant street art scene across the city's streets, guided by someone who knows the work intimately. You'll move at your own pace with up to three companions, discussing what you encounter with a local guide who thrives on how each person reads the pieces differently. The tour wraps at QAGOMA—Queensland's premier art museum—leaving your afternoon open, or your guide walks you back to Queen Street.

Melbourne Sports Experience + Free Australian Sports Museum entry

Explore [Melbourne](/places/melbourne)'s sporting legacy and present-day facilities on a guided 3.5-hour tour led by locals who know the game. You'll visit iconic venues across the city, take a break for coffee and a bite at a stadium café, then spend time in the Australian Sports Museum—a one-of-a-kind collection that reopened in 2020. It's a chance to understand how deeply sport runs through this city's veins.

Private Melbourne’s History with a Drink Tour

A three-hour private walking tour of [Melbourne](/places/melbourne) that pairs the city's layered past with its thriving bar culture. Your local guide will steer you through the stories of the characters and events that shaped the city, taking you to three distinctive establishments along the way. You'll navigate Naarm's neighbourhood laneways and discover watering holes favoured by locals, piecing together how Melbourne's bar scene became what it is today. Drinks are yours to purchase as you go, keeping the tour price accessible.

Broken Head Aboriginal Tour

Walk the headland at Byron Bay with an Arakwal Bundjalung guide who shares Country knowledge spanning coastal rainforest, wave-carved cliffs, and sheltered inlets. The 90-minute circuit pairs landscape with cultural storytelling, finishing with native bush tucker and tea. You'll move at a steady pace across natural terrain, learning how the land sustained people for thousands of years before the town existed.

Skip the Line: Cairns Museum Admission Ticket

Gain direct entry to Cairns Museum in the city heart, bypassing queues to explore Far North Queensland's frontier heritage. The air-conditioned galleries hold artefacts, photographs and interactive displays tracing the region's colonial past, Indigenous cultures, environmental shifts and tropical boom years. Staff and volunteers share stories that anchor the objects to real lives and places. The upstairs verandah delivers city views and a natural pause point mid-visit.

Kalgoorlie Heritage Tram City Highlights Tour

Roll through Kalgoorlie-Boulder in an open-air heritage tram, exploring the town's gold-rush roots across two and a half hours. Your guide unpacks stories of the 1893 strike and the characters who built this Outback mining hub, stopping at the colossal Superpit, grand Victorian buildings along Hannan and Burt Streets, and the Museum of the Goldfields to see Western Australia's heaviest nugget. Designed for those wanting genuine local insight rather than rushed sightseeing.

Gold Coast and Wavebreak Island Cultural Small Group Cruise

A 2.5-hour cruise across the Gold Coast Broadwater aboard the Kokomo that centres First Nations perspectives on this waterway. You'll hear stories from an Aboriginal guide about cultural ties to the land and sea, begin with a formal Acknowledgement of Country, and join a Yarring Circle at Wavebreak Island where conversation flows freely. The boat moves through striking coastal scenery while you learn how this region has been understood and inhabited for thousands of years.

Old Stories of Melbourne's Chinatown

Trace [Melbourne](/places/melbourne)'s Chinatown through two centuries of underworld intrigue, from the 1850s gold rush onwards. Your guide draws directly from archival police records—15 years of research—to unpack the smuggling networks, illegal gambling dens, and protection rackets that shaped this neighbourhood. You'll walk streets where extortion and gang violence played out in plain sight, while authorities turned a blind eye. The included booklet features mugshots, confiscated artefacts, and hand-drawn crime maps that bring these stories into sharp focus.

Poihakena tours: stories of Maori in Sydney

Walk through The Rocks with a Māori guide who'll reveal over two centuries of Māori presence in Sydney—trading posts, homes, meeting places woven into this historic precinct. You'll hear stories from people who know them firsthand, not from textbooks. This is the only Māori-led tour in Australia, a country where one in five Māori now call home. Two hours, ground level, no fitness barriers.

All Inclusive Twilight Nights Little India Half Day Tour

Experience Harris Park's Little India as it transforms at dusk on this three-hour guided tour. Your local guide opens doors to family-run shops, street vendors and community spaces tucked away from main thoroughfares. Sample regional dishes prepared fresh, try henna application and jewellery, learn Hindi phrases from residents, and participate in a short cooking demonstration. The tour bundles hotel collection, all food and drink, cultural activities and a professional photo session into one outing.

3 hoursfrom AUD $299

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