The Garma Festival is an invitation to the clans to join in the diplomacy of kinship. It’s also a rare chance to engage with the world’s oldest living culture.
Camp is a sacred place: an escarpment that curls like the spine of a crocodile along the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory.
Travellers who come as outsiders and enthusiasts to experience the largest Indigenous celebration of art, politics and life in Australia will not find it bundled easily into a glossy travel brochure. This is a gift to be unwrapped slowly. Slow like the snaking line for food served from bain-maries and the queue for the cold-water showers. Loud like the bands that play until 11pm and the generators that snarl through the dark hours.
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