Get Ready to Barunga Festival - It’s Just Awesome!

Get Ready to Barunga Festival - It’s Just Awesome!

Australia is regarded as the most happening and worth-visiting destination on the Earth by most people to have the finest and memorable holidays ever with the family and friends. And if you are planning your vacation for Barunga, then get a campervan rental in Darwin with which your trip will be awesome leading you to have the finest time of your life witnessing the amazing Barunga Festival.

Barunga Festival, an annual happening event that is celebrated on the Queen’s Birthday around June in Darwin and it is a long weekend event enjoyed here. This will be the 30th year of the event celebrated and has now earned its place as the important community festivals in regional Australia.

The festival involves a strong historical tale to showcase the Katherine region and support the indigenous communities to gather together and celebrate the community life’s positive aspects through music, softball, basketball, football, traditional arts and culture.

These festivities of the event encourage people from all the ages to enjoy and celebrate this opportunity to engage with a remote indigenous community. The festival this year in 2014 attracted more than 3,000 visitors from all across the world along with garnering the national and international level media coverage. Now, people are desperately looking for the 2015 event on this much-loved territory. This time, the event organizers have promised to deliver an incredible event of sports, culture, music, dance, art, workshops, kids activities, healthy food, and many more festive treats.

If you are also interested to join such a thrilling event, it is better to review in advance some important highlights of the event and the location.

An Acquaintance with the Location The location of Barunga is 70kms southeast of Katherine on the Central Arnhem Rd. It is a sealed road and you don’t need to bring the 4WDs. However, always remember to get your vehicle filled up in Katherine as the fuel is not available for sale at Barunga Community. The Barunga comes from the dry community and so you cannot expect the availability of drugs and alcohol in the event. In fact, drugs and alcohol are totally prohibited to carry in the event. Always be careful of the police checks on the road to Barunga as your car may be searched.

Barunga community enjoys great fun during camping in the nature’s arms. You can get better direction from the festival staff. Options of hotels/motels are also available there in Katherine if camping does not appeal you. You will be amazed to have a combination of the permanent and portable toilets in the event as an effort towards the convenience of the people and maintaining cleanliness. However, very limited showering facilities are made available there. A beautiful and croc free river is there to let you enjoy swimming and have total fun.

The organization behind the Barunga Festival 2015 runs a motto of healthy food policy.

The event makes available a variety of food options at the reasonable price charges all through the festival. The city hosts an incredibly stocked and surprisingly affordable general store to meet the routine needs of the people, easily. If you can, you should support the locals by buying their locally-made products. A certain amount of entry fee will be charged for the 4 day event. It includes the camping fee as well. This year, you can access the event from 10am Friday, 5th June to lunchtime Monday, 8th June. At the entrance gate, the visitors are supplied with the wrist banks and these bands should be kept on for the festival duration.