Why International Visitors Choose Bookabee Australia

If you're heading to Adelaide and looking for more than just food, wine, and festivals, there’s one experience visitors from all around the world keep calling unforgettable, a cultural immersion tour through the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum, with Bookabee Australia.

This isn’t your typical guided walk. With a local Aboriginal guide leading the way, you’ll explore one of the city’s most beautiful green spaces while learning about the deep and living connections between Aboriginal people, plants, and place. For many travellers, it becomes the most meaningful part of their Australian adventure. A part where their visit takes on cultural perspectives, and they appreciate viewing the world around them through a new and different cultural lens.

“It’s amazing to watch people’s eyes open when they realise this is not just a garden. It’s a library of knowledge”, says Bookabee tour guide, Iteka Ukarla Sanderson-Bromley “Every plant has a purpose; every place has a story.”

Stories That Stay With You

As you move through the gardens, you’ll hear how native plants were traditionally used for food, healing, tools, and ceremony, some of which are still used today. What might look like just a tree to most visitors suddenly becomes a pharmacy, a kitchen, a traditional resource or a link to a sacred story.

In the Aboriginal Cultures Gallery, your Bookabee guide will bring over 3,000 remarkable artifacts to life, including boomerangs, bark paintings, shields, early recordings, rare intact bark canoes, and the culturally significant Yuendumu school doors. Through personal stories and cultural interpretations, you'll gain a far deeper understanding of the exhibition than you would visiting on your own.

“We share knowledge from our own families and communities,” Iteka explains “It’s a privilege to help people connect with this land in a respectful and meaningful way.”

The tour is warm, engaging, and personal. You’re encouraged to ask questions, reflect, and take your time, no rushed scripts or rehearsed spiels. Whether you’re travelling solo or with family, it’s a chance to slow down and take in a different kind of learning, one that stays with you long after you leave.

Walk With Awareness

Importantly, Bookabee delivers this experience with cultural sensitivity, respect and care. While the stories shared may include knowledge from the Adnyamathanha people and other Aboriginal Nations, the tours take place on Kaurna Country, and recognition of this is acknowledged throughout the experience.

For international visitors wanting to understand more about Australia’s First Peoples, their continuously living culture and their unbroken connection to land, Bookabee’s cultural immersion tours offer something truly special. This is not just sightseeing, it’s an immersive experience enshrined with story listening, truth telling, and a chance to walk with deeper awareness, understanding and respect on Country.

In a world where travel often skims the surface, this is the kind of experience that rewrites your understanding of place. You don't just visit Adelaide when you are with Bookabee - you're invited to see it through eyes that have been watching this land for 65,000 years. And that invitation, extended with such generosity and care, is exactly why visitors from every corner of the globe keep calling it unforgettable.