VISITING ULURU
Tjukurpa is the Law relating to appropriate behaviour of people to each other and people to the land. It is very important that visitors understand and respect the proper way to behave, especially with regard to photographs, sacred sites and climbing the rock.
	The existing Uluru climb is the traditional route taken by ancestral Mala men on their arrival at Uluru. Because this path is of great spiritual significance, Anangu rarely climb Uluru. Although Anangu have given permission for visitors to climb Uluru, Anangu prefer if you choose to respect the cultural significance of Uluru and do not climb. As well, the traditional owners have a duty to safeguard visitors. Anangu feel great sadness when a person dies or is hurt on their land.
Do not enter or photograph Sacred Sites. Sacred sites are distinct areas where, according to Tjukurpa, only particular Anangu women and/or men are allowed to go.
These places are particularly powerful and have been fenced off around the base of Uluru. In Anangu Law it is both unsafe and forbidden for men to enter or look intently at women's sacred sites, and for women, children and uninitiated men to enter or look at men's sacred sites.

 

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