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Visit two of the world’s best rock art sites during this five-day adventure with Venture North. Experience Injalak Hill and Art Centre, follow your local Aboriginal guide through numerous rock art shelters that have been home to Kunwinjku people since time immemorial. The shelters and rock walls are decorated with thousands of ochre paintings and your guide will explain the stories associated with these art works. Then wander through the Art Centre to see and buy contemporary art works from Gunbalanya Artists.  Then you will visit Ubirr and see the spectacular examples of West Arnhem Land x-ray art. Most of the x-ray paintings in this gallery are from the freshwater period, within the last 1,500 years. The main gallery at Ubirr also contains examples of Contact Art, images of the Creation Ancestors and an image of the extinct thylacine or Tasmanian tiger.