About Kingfisher Tours

EXPERIENCE THE AUTHENTIC KIMBERLEY WITH THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE

Kingfisher Tours embraces the adventure of the Kimberley region with our authentic and exciting tour experiences from the Bungle Bungle Range to the grand gorges in hues of red and orange, right out to the exquisite turquoise waters of the Northern Kimberley coast and the ancient landscapes at the Mitchell Plateau. With Kingfisher Tours, you have the opportunity to experience the uncommon beauty of these landscapes by Air, 4WD and on foot, with our local Aboriginal Custodian for country guides.

Kingfisher Tours is a local family company ; we have lived here for 30 years and have been operating Kingfisher tours as one of our businesses for the last 11 years in the Northeast Kimberley.

We have created unique products in partnership with the custodians of the country, you are submerged in the landscape, soaking in the ancient knowledge of the region with our knowledgeable Aboriginal guides who share the rich and diverse history of the Kimberley Region; the stories of the land and the Dreamtime are conversations that you will take with you.

Our ground tours boast local produce and some bush tucker for lunches, or our fresh Mango jams and chutneys from the local farms. Your guides will also point out local bush tucker and bush botanicals in the area. For those of our guests on our overnight tours and the Iconic Air Safari, your accommodation will be in APT’s Wilderness Lodges in Purnululu and the Mitchell Falls.

Kingfisher tours are very conscious of our pristine wilderness that we live and tour in. As such we have introduced several initiatives to minimise the single-use plastic in the business and continue to encourage other tour operators, in particular our partners to do the same.

We also aim to employ local staff from Custodian for Country tour guides to our reservation team, so our guests will be received by a local Kimberley resident.

Our guests always have a window seat when flying so as not to miss any elements of the immersive landscape and our 4WD’s on the ground are air-conditioned Toyota Prado’s.

We look forwarding to welcoming you on board an enriching Kimberley experience with us!

OUR ETHOS + SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

Kingfisher Tours is committed to treading lightly on the environment, embracing local culture and working to generate future employment for local people. We aim to ensure that future development of the region provides a positive experience for local people; local industry and visitors.

We are all about LOCAL in everything we do.

Kingfisher Tours are very conscious of our pristine wilderness that we live and tour in. As such we have introduced a number of initiatives to minimise the single-use plastic in the business, and continue to encourage other tour operators and our partners in particular to do the same. This includes our partnership with Project Pargo to supply high quality water bottles and keep cups for our tours.

Kingfisher Tours also have a probono program to help local Aboriginal Business development in the region. If as a guest you have skills that you are happy to share, legal, financial, management or marketing please let us know and we can link you with a number of local projects we support . Having professional links into the major cities is of enormous benefit.

Kingfisher Tours are committed to supporting the development of micro business within our Kingfisher tours family and are so proud of our Head Guide’s Purnululu Bush medicine label ‘Garingbaar Products’.

Kingfisher Tours has supported our head guide Bec Sampi to establish her business making beautiful soaps using traditional bush medicine from the Purnululu area. Samples of Garingbaar soaps can be purchased in the Kingfisher Tours shop. Wholesale enquiries for Garingbaar soaps can be sent to marketing@kingfishertours.com.au

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES LAST SEASON

Our guide was Bec who is a local Gija woman and whose “Country” we were lucky enough to visit and be part of for a day. Bec’s storytelling helped us paint a picture of Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) that only a local custodian could do. Letting us take a glimpse into the way of life, culture, lore and customs, traditions and song lines connected to ‘her country’. Once we were inside the Cathedral Gorge space and waterway. Bec made us all sit down, put our phones down and become silent as we soaked in the serenity and sacredness of the place. She then sang us a song in local language which I think was welcoming us onto this part of the country as well as honoring her ancestors. It was hauntingly beautiful with the stunning acoustics of the space. From here we made our way over to Echidna Chasm, which is at the other end of the park. It felt like we were entering ‘Jurassic Park’ as we made our way along the dry river bed, with majestic red rocks and massive palm trees towering over us as we entered the Echidna Chasm. Bec stopping and telling us stories along the way, she sang here too. Make sure you take plenty of water, sunscreen, camera, good hat and hiking shoes/boots, sense of adventure to soak it all in! I highly recommend Kingfisher Tours on their Bungles Day Trek which included Cathedral Gorge and Echidna Chasm.

July 2023

We were lucky enough to have two tours through Kingfisher Tours, the first was a day Off The Beaten Track with Rosie who was fantastic, vast local knowledge, fantastic scenery and great food to boot. The second was an Extended Day Trip To Purnululu visiting both the Southern Massif including Cathedral Gorge and and Northern Massif including Echidna Chasm. The whole day was amazing as too our wonderful guide Bec....simply remarkable and an absolute pleasure to have her educate us about this Sacred Place. Would highly recommend Kingfisher Tours and these tours to anyone considering them. Well worth it in all respects.

July 2023

I can very highly recommend Kingfisher Tours, especially a spiritual and cultural experience with the amazing Rebecca Sampi (known as ‘Bungle Bungle Bec’) in Purnululu National Park. Bec, a local Gija woman who was born and raised in the Kimberley, is the head guide for Purnululu with Kingfisher Tours. Listening to Bec share her stories and listening to her sing the ancient song lines for the area in the natural amphitheatre of Cathedral Gorge, is an absolute tour highlight!

July 2023

Our family of 5 was lucky enough to jump on a ground tour at Mitchell Falls with Kingfisher Tours, and we are so glad we did! The whole day was such an amazing experience and highlight for our family. Our Indigenous guide Kolya was very knowledgeable with a great sense of humour and we enjoyed learning about the culture of the area. He was great at engaging our 3 young children who especially enjoyed learning about bush tucker. Kolya was a very professional guide, whilst ensuring we had an enjoyable safe tour. Kingfisher tours were great to deal with and the booking process and communication was seamless. We highly recommend them and look forward to booking another tour with them in the future.

June 2022

Found Kingfisher and Rosie by chance late Sunday afternoon. Didn't much around, booked a trip to Mitchel Falls. Pilot's knowledge of the landscape and history was outstanding. I looked for a prompt sheet on the dash, none there! Spoken with enthusiasm and live of the country and her job, all on board enjoyed it. Met Kolya our guide upon arrival. No doubt we were the luckiest visitors there. Kolya's people are from nearby Warmun area. He was able to share insights of his proud family and culture which was very special to us.

August 2022