Private Tour: Hidden Darwin

Available any day. Contact us to book your date.

You can customise this private tour to suit what interests you. If you'd like a gourmet tour, for example, we'll take you to top restaurants, where you get to try several tasting plates. You'll get a full Outback meal including delicious crocodile and other local delicacies.

Or you might prefer to spend more of your time spotting wildlife at Darwin’s top sightseeing spots, or any combination of activities. We’ll begin your tour by presenting you with a range of options for your day and weaving your preferences into the fabric of the tour.

Your experienced local guide will pick you up from your accommodation.

Customise your tour with one or all of these iconic Territory activities:

(Kindly note some activities may attract an additional charge.)

·      Gourmet dining

·      Distillery tasting and tour

·      WWII history, sites and sights

·      Aviation Museum

·      Royal Flying Doctor

·      Wild fish feeding

·      Chinese history, temple, museum

·      Architecture

·      Beaches

·      Aboriginal art

·      Museum & Art Gallery

·      Parliament House

·      Private tropical gardens

·      Birding and wildlife spotting

·      Botanic & Community Gardens

·      Jumping crocodiles

Or if you prefer, we can suggest a fun and interesting itinerary with a wide range of activities.

What's included if you want this to be mostly a Gourmet Food Tour?

• Darwin’s best food in a 4-hour tour

• Two top restaurants

• more than 10 tasting plates

• all drinks including alcohol, cocktails, soft drinks, coffee and tea included throughout

• staff talk to us about the food (chefs too, where possible)

• local produce and food culture

• see Darwin's street art come to life with augmented reality

• includes info on culture, history, WWII, architecture

• lunch tours include a stop at an Aboriginal art gallery and store

• short easy walks between restaurants

• vegetarian, gluten-free, and other dietary options

• there’s lots to eat—we’ll fill you up

• tasty tropical desert to finish

• sightseeing central Darwin.

What’s the food like?
Some tours feature food. You’ll enjoy a variety of gourmet dishes. We cater for dietary preferences including vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free, allergy-related and others. Below is a wide selection from several of the restaurants on our tours that’s indicative of some of the gourmet dishes you can expect, depending on the format of the tour. Selections may vary from tour to tour.

Menu samples of locally-sourced produce

• NT crocodile dumplings

• Line-caught smoked mackerel pate

• Rum Jungle buffalo croquettes

• Skull Island prawns

• Thai-style local fish cakes with nam jim

• Loligo calamari
  

• Char grilled beef in local wild betel leaf

• Garlic kai lan

• Vegetable laksa

• Whole chargrilled snapper with cashew sauce

• Kang koong water spinach with garlic and chilli sauce

• Green papaya salad

• Kangaroo spring rolls

• Berber spiced kangaroo with tomato jam

• Whole char grilled goldband snapper with cashew sauce

• Barramundi in turmeric, lemongrass, fresh curry leaves, coconut

• Salt and pepper marinated crocodile

• Eggplant with a sweet and sour dressing

• Caramelised wattleseed banana with roast macadamia topping and vanilla bean ice cream

We can host more guests with additional pricing.

Contact us for more information or to get advice on what to see and do in Darwin to suit your tastes.

PS We also have Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish-speaking guides. Contact us for rates.