South Australia is renowned for its wine regions, festivals, opals, breathtaking caves and vast desert landscapes. The Coonawarra Wine Region plus the World Heritage–listed Naracoorte Caves National Park’s limestone caves and an amazing Bat Cave where mass migrations of bats cloud the sky.
Fleurieu Peninsula offers top-class beaches, skydiving, the Wine Region of McLaren Vale, diving at Yankalilla Bay, sea lions at.Seal Bay and Kangaroo Island, a haven for kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, possums, koalas, platypus and echidnas plus more than 240 species of birds. The Barossa and Clare Valley Wine Regions are a short drive from Adelaide as are the majestic peaks of Flinders Ranges National Park.
Adelaide, Australia’s festival capital, is a vibrant cosmopolitan city nestled between sea and hills. A graceful city of wide streets, elegant buildings and parkland, it is known for its cultural activities, good food and wine. The South Australian Museum houses the world’s largest exhibition of Australian Aboriginal culture.
There is no greater haven than the Northern Territory for those looking to make a connection with nature - the World Heritage National Parks of Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta (Ayers Rock), flora and fauna as diverse as desert blooms are to lotus lilies, fearsome saltwater crocodiles & the Brolga, the elegant dancing bird that is the Northern Territory’s emblem. Set on a harbour twice the size of Sydney’s, Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, is a modern, tropical city with great restaurants, fresh seafood and fine shopping including croc-leather products and the renowned Paspaley pearls.
Australia’s most culturally diverse city. Darwin is the gateway to the Northern Territory’s Top End, infused with Aboriginal spirituality, encompassing Litchfield National Park and the Tiwi Islands. Kakadu, with Jabiru mining township at its centre, with its wetlands, plunging gorges and waterfalls, has one of the highest concentrated areas of accessible Aboriginal rock art sites in the world. Arnhem Land bounded by Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, has wild coastlines, deserted islands, rivers teeming with fish, rainforests, soaring escarpments and savanna woodland. The population is predominantly Aboriginal people whose traditional culture remains largely intact.
The outback town of Katherine, about 320 kilometres south of Darwin, is the home to the majestic Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk) in the Nitmiluk National Park.
Tennant Creek, with its gold mining heritage, is situated 1,000 kilometres south of Darwin. Tennant Creek is the main service centre for cattle stations in the surrounding Barkly Tablelands.
The rugged MacDonnell Ranges stretch like a spine for 400km to the east and west of Alice Springs. Beyond the Ranges is the remote desert wilderness of the Simpson Desert.