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Connect to the timeless customs of the Yolngu people at the Garma Festival, held in north-east Arnhem Land in August. Enjoy ceremonial song and dance, immerse yourself in the region's rich and distinctive visual art or attend an academic forum. Hunt for bush tucker, bush medicines and bush dye with the women or learn to make and throw spears with the men. Non-Aboriginal guests are welcomed alongside local and neighbouring Aboriginal groups to this vibrant five-day showcase. It's held amidst the stringybark forest of Gulkula, where the spirit ancestor Ganbulapula forged the first didgeridoo. Gulkula is around 40km from Nhulunbuy township and 14km from Gove airport.