The experience combines the latest in theatrics and technology with interactive activities with local Aborigines, featuring traditional culture and customs.

Tjapukai appeals to all ages, is both fun and educational and most of all, it changes the way people think about Aboriginal culture. It is an inspirational New Age experience presented for today's traveller by the Tjapukai, the people of the rainforest, who themselves have a majority shareholding in the park.

For more detailed information about Tjapukai:

• Company Profile
• Our Philosophy
• Employment
• The History Of Tjapukai
• Awards

Some Quick Facts

• Tjapukai is a partnership between the long term employees, the Tjapukai speaking communities and several private business people with the indigenous shareholders holding just over 50% of the company
• Tjapukai began in 1987 in the basement of a shopping centre in Kuranda. Created by Don and Judy Freeman together with David and Cindy Hudson, it was a unique partnership between black and white.
• The land that Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park stands on is owned by the Djabugay and Irukanydji people
• Tjapukai is the largest private enterprise employer of Aboriginal people in Australia. The Park provides economic benefits to the Aboriginal people who work there and who own a stake in the park
• Tjapukai is in the Guinness Book of Records as The Longest Running Show in Australia.
• A decade ago, the Tjapukai language was on the edge of extinction. Today it is spoken in the Creation Theatre and throughout the park
• There are 2 spellings of Tjapukai. The spelling Djabugay is the one adopted by the Djabugay Tribal Aboriginal Corporation, while the spelling Tjapukai is used for the company and the brand name.
• The Creation Theatre is performed in the Tjapukai language and translated into 8 languages via personal headsets
• Tjapukai's park has been designed to change the way people think about Aboriginal culture
• Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is the only authorised presentation of Aboriginal culture in the Cairns region and has been, and still is, a working example of 'Reconciliation in Practice'
• Tjapukai has won the Queensland Tourism Awards in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2005, and was inducted into the Queensland Tourism Awards Tourism Hall of Fame in 2000
• Tjapukai has won 7 national Australian Tourism Awards in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2000
• Tjapukai has won more than 25 major state, national and international awards for tourism excellence and in 1999, Tjapukai received the PATA Gold Award for Culture, celebrating the best cultural presentation in the world
• In 2001, and again in 2004, Tjapukai won the ATEC Award for Attraction Excellence voted by the Inbound Tour Operators Of Australia.
• In 2005, Tjapukai won the Queensland Tourism Award for Best Significant Attraction, The Premier's Award for Reconciliation and the inaugural Gnunkai Award for Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Tourism.