Flinders Ranges & Lake Eyre 2024

Wednesday, 8th - Thursday, 16th May, 2024

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Tuesday, 22nd - Wednesday, 30th October 2024

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Wednesday, 30th October - Thursday, 7th November, 2024

9 Days   -   $6,390 per person twin share

              -    $990 Single Supplement

Includes return flight to Adelaide, airport shuttle (in pick up zones), accommodation, 4WD tours and scenic flights, all breakfasts and dinners and entry as per itinerary.

• Day 1 - Holly and the airport shuttle will transfer you to Sydney Airport for your flight to Adelaide where Scott will be waiting to take you to Clare Valley Country Club (2 nights)                                                                                                                                 
• Day 2 - Today we explore the wonderful Clare Valley region. We’ll admire the Georgian mansion Martindale Hall, go hunting for the Monster of Lake Bumbunga, say hello to Snowtown and visit Sevenhills Winery and learn about it’s very spiritual history.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Day 3 - Alligator Gorge Lookout this morning. We journey through Quorn & Hawker to arrive at Wilpena Pound Resort for a 2 night stay.                                                                                                                                                                                                
• Day 4 - We start the day tracing more than 100 million years of geographical history in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges with the Time Travel & Gorgeous Gorges 4WD tour. After lunch our experienced Yura guide takes us on an informative stroll to Old Wilpena Station, one of South Australia’s oldest and best preserved pastoral settlements. Walk along Wilpena Creek past magnificent river red gums understanding the land from the perspective of the Adnyamathanha people.

• Day 5 - A leisurely walk into Wilpena Pound. See the pioneering heritage at Hill’s Homestead. This afternoon we’re off on a mini break. Over the next few days we experience the area in a unique way, by private planes! A scenic flight this afternoon takes us over Brachina Gorge, the Northern Flinders Ranges and Lake Frome before arriving at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary (1 night). Tonight we step into the Ningana Imaging Observatory to Explore the Cosmos                                                                                                            
• Day 6 - This morning we join the award winning Ridgetop 4WD Tour that takes us over the rugged and arid mountains to the very top of Sillers Lookout. Our private planes await to fly us 40mins up to Maree, gateway to Lake Eyre. Maree Hotel  (2 nights )                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
• Day 7 - A full day out in the planes today. The classic outback experience, stopping at the Pink Road house in Oodnaddata for morning tea. Swimming in the natural Dalhousie Springs in the Witjira National Park. Lunch at Mt Dare. Lake Eyre, the
  Marree Man and lots more.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
• Day 8 - We head back down south today. A stop at the famous Prairie Hotel at Parachilna. This afternoon we board a restored diesel railcar and take an exclusive trip along the original Ghan route from Quorn to Port Augusta on the heritage Pichi Richi
  Railway. The Standpipe Golf Motor Inn (1 night )                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
• Day 9 - Leaving Port Augusta this morning, we make our way to Adelaide for a flight to Sydney where the airport shuttles are waiting to take you home.