Holiday Overview
Outback Adventure - a superb Australia Escorted Tour
Discover the legendary Australian outback on a fascinating northbound journey from Adelaide, through the Red Centre and onto tropical Darwin in the Top End. The stunning beauty of Australia’s vast and varied landscapes including the rugged Flinders Ranges, ancient Uluru and Kata Tjuta and the lush wetlands of Kakadu National Park will provide memories to last a lifetime.
Choose This Trip If You'd Love To:
Experience sunrise over Uluru on a two-night stay.
Experience Earth Sanctuary with the Falzon family.
Explore outback towns of Coober Pedy and Tennant Creek.
Enjoy handcrafted experiences touring Nitmiluk & Kakadu.
2025 | Prices From |
Jun-10 | £4934pp Adult Twin £6320pp Single |
Jul-08 | £4934pp Adult Twin £6320pp Single |
Aug-05 | £4934pp Adult Twin £6320pp Single |
Sep-02 | £4934pp Adult Twin £6320pp Single |
Outback Adventure Escorted Tour includes:
- Transfers to and from Adelaide ( Before 12.30pm) and Darwin.
- 14 nights accommodation - see itinerary
- 14 Full Buffet Breakfasts
- 1 Be My Guest dinner
- 8 dinners with wine
- 1 Farewell Dinner
- Travel by luxury coach
- Experienced Travel Director and Guide
Day 1 - Welcome to Adelaide
On arrival today, explore the major sights of the city. Later, join a local food expert for a guided tour of the vibrant Adelaide Central Market. Relax this evening at a Welcome Reception and dinner.
Hotel: Crowne Plaza Adelaide Included Meals: Dinner with wine
Day 2 - Adelaide - Flinders Ranges
One of Australia’s oldest wine regions, the Clare Valley is all wide, open skies, rounded hills, rippling grape vines and native forest. It’s a postcard-perfect setting for historic Knappstein Enterprise Winery, producing sweet-scented rieslings and mineral-rich reds. The route north lands you at Hawker – it may be the gateway to the Flinders Ranges, but there are plenty of reasons to linger, including well-preserved heritage buildings and the Jeff Morgan Gallery. Jeff’s enormous panoramas capture the SA outback in a frame; he also collects rocks, model cars and random memorabilia. The best is still to come, as you arrive at Wilpena Pound Resort in the shadows of a staggering natural amphitheatre.
Hotel: Wilpena Pound Resort
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Day 3 - Flinders Ranges - Port Augusta
The soaring river red gums that envelop the restored Hills Homestead will leave you lost for words; equally mesmerising is the display inside the property, revealing the hardships of early settlers in this part of the state. You get here on a leisurely walk along Wilpena Creek and continue to Wangarra Hill Lookout for seemingly endless views over the pound’s rippling peaks and sweeping curves. The drama is echoed as you climb to Pichi Richi Pass – spare a thought for the workers who built the train line here in the 1870s, through deep rock that provides a snapshot of Flinders Ranges geology. Ease into Port Augusta, where more stories of yesteryear await at Wadlata Outback Centre.
Hotel: Majestic Oasis Apartments
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Day 4 - Port Augusta - Coober Pedy
With Port Augusta in the rear-view mirror, your journey continues into space. Well, sort of. The main attraction in Woomera is a former rocket-testing site, today stocked with rockets and missiles tested over the past 60 years. Speaking of space, you may will think you’ve landed on the moon as you travel through sun-baked country to isolated Coober Pedy, known as ‘the opal capital of the world’. Things get deep as you travel underground with a local to see how these gleaming gems are mined, and visit the town’s head-scratching subterranean facilities, from churches to schools and hotel
Hotel: Desert Cave Hotel
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Day 5 - Coober Pedy - Uluru
After a hearty breakfast, prepare to stay goodbye to South Australia as you cross the border into the Northern Territory and arrive at Australia’s spiritual heart, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park – it has World Heritage status for a reason. Under the gaze of the world’s mightiest monolith, toast the end of the day with a glass of bubbles and a camera full of sunset photos, the countryside transforming from ochre and orange to bruised purples and maroon with every ‘click’ of your camera.
Hotel: Desert Gardens Hotel
Included Meals: Breakfast
Day 6 - Uluru Sunrise - Kata Tjuta
Pre-dawn wake-up calls are worth it when you get to see an equally dazzling Red Centre colour transformation at sunrise. Marvel at the majesty of ‘the Rock’ as you circumnavigate its 11-kilometre base or join a guided walk to Mutitjulu Waterhole. This living cultural landscape takes you back to the beginning of time. Small wonder it’s a sacred place for eons of Anangu people. Over the millennia, they left behind rock art and snacked on native plants, with bush plums, tomatoes and figs, all still in abundance. More soul-salving landscapes spread before you at Kata Tjuta, cool relief found as you walk amid its domes to Walpa Gorge. If your SD card isn’t full of sunset photos yet, it will be after tonight’s dazzling display.
Hotel : Desert Gardens Hotel
Included Meals - Breakfast
Day 7 - Uluru - Kings Canyon
Another Uluru sunrise excursion awaits (should you wish), with this morning’s optional tour taking you to artist Bruce Munro’s Uluru Field of Light – a blanket of 50,000 glowing bulbs. What a way to start the day. There are so many record-breaking rock attractions in this part of the country that you may not have heard of Attila (Mt. Conner) before – but once you’ve glimpsed the table-like formation, you certainly won’t forget it. Stretch your legs again at Kings Creek Station, the largest exporter of wild camels in Australia. All your senses will be activated on the Kings Canyon rim walk, 440-million years in the making and forged through layers of sandstone and hard shale creating soaring domes and plateaus that plummet to an oasis of natural rock pools. It’s hard to gauge the immensity when you’re wandering, until you reach a lookout that is…
Hotel : Kings Canyon Resort
Included Meals - Breakfast and Dinner with Wine
Featured accommodation
Kings Canyon Resort & Holiday Park
Day 8 - Kings Canyon - Alice Springs
Things are bigger in the NT outback, from the cattle stations the size of a small country to the MacDonnell Ranges, which stretch like a dinosaur spine toward the character-filled town of Alice Springs. Aside from its plethora of Aboriginal galleries and art stores, Alice makes Australian history for her 1872 Telegraph Station, one of 12 along the Overland Telegraph Line that traverses a whopping 3,200 kilometres between Adelaide and Darwin. Glimpse it up close, then from afar as you ascend Anzac Hill for panoramic views that inspired many of those paintings in Alice’s galleries.
Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton, Alice Springs
Meals Included : Breakfast
Day 9 - Alice Springs
Aboriginal culture is strong in Alice Springs, as you’ll fast find on a tour revealing the history of the Arrernte people. The other thing that’s strong is community spirit – it has to be when there are so few people scattered over such a vast area of land. Enter the Royal Flying Doctor Service, its base a museum of sorts that goes behind the scenes of the life-saving health services it delivers to people living in remote realms. One of the benefits of being this far-flung is the lack of light pollution. And at Earth Sanctuary World Nature Centre, this equates to epic stargazing. Your BBQ dinner here with the Falzon family is enlightening and uplifting – think stories of self-sufficient living, astronomy and even a tune or two on the didgeridoo.
Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton, Alice Springs
Meals Included : Breakfast and Be My Guest Dinner
Day 10 - Alice Springs - Tennant Creek
1.3 million square kilometres – that’s the eye-watering distance the School of Air’s lessons are broadcast across daily. Watch a live session with kids who would otherwise have no access to public education. It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable you are, you might just believe in aliens when you pass Wycliffe Well, the self-proclaimed ‘UFO capital’ of Australia. But it’s the devil that awaits (well, his marbles) at Karlu Karlu, where precariously balanced boulders appear to have been superglued together. The most prized rock found in this part of the world is, however, gold, which is why your base for the night, Tennant Creek, exists.
Hotel: Bluestone Motor Inn
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Day 11 - Tennant Creek - Katherine
Since the 1930s, the time-tested Daly Waters Historic Pub has been dishing up schnitzel's, barramundi burgers and hearty steaks. The walls here are lined with treasures that passers-by leave behind, from bras to boots. What can you contribute over lunch? ‘Land of the Never Never’ awaits at Mataranka. Yes, you can visit a replica of the Elsey Homestead, used in the filming of 1982 Aussie drama We of the Never Never, an autobiographical flick about life in the outback. Or wander palm-lined walkways to take a dip in the region’s steamy thermal springs – the ultimate antidote to weary limbs before arriving in Katherine.
Hotel: Contour Hotel, Katherine
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Day 12 - Katherine - Kakadu National Park
The Jawoyn have called Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge home for millennia. You can feel their presence while cruising this mighty waterway that’s home to more than a few resident crocs. This is not the last time these scaly creatures will be in your company – they’ll make another appearance on your Kakadu tour, when you jump in yet another boat for a Yellow Water Billabong cruise. You don’t need binoculars to spot the sea eagles, brolgas and kingfishers that colour this part of the Top End; they’re everywhere you look.
Hotel: Mercure Kakadu Crocodile
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Featured accommodation
Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel
Day 13 - Kakadu - Darwin
Decisions, decisions: optional morning flight over Kakadu and Arnhem Land, or a sleep in. We vote for the former, to get some perspective before you venture toward Ubirr and its astounding ancient Aboriginal rock art. Scamper to the top of the rocky outcrop for seemingly endless views over floodplains backdropped by sheer escarpments. If it looks familiar, that’s because it played a starring role in 1986 Aussie film, Crocodile Dundee. The night is yours in steamy Darwin, where the characters are as large as the shadows cast at sunset. First stop: the Mindil Beach Sunset Market for dinner with your feet in the sand..
Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn Darwin
Included Meals: Breakfast
Day 14 - Darwin Free Time
It’s fitting that your final full day in the Northern Territory is sultry – the steamy climate demands it. Today, go your own way. That might mean sleeping in, then heading out for a delicious tropical breakfast. Or signing up for optional experiences, like explorations into Litchfield National Park. This pocket of the NT is a staggering union of magnetic termite mounds and waterfalls, not to mention the waterholes where you can cool off with a refreshing dip (swimming is seasonal). Alternatively, head north to the Tiwi Islands, where you take a deep dive into Indigenous history and art with First Nations guides (both own expense). Whichever route you go, we’ll see you at the Farewell Dinner.
Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn Darwin
Included Meals: Breakfast, Farewell Dinner
Day 15 - Farewell from Darwin
Bid a fond farewell to your fellow travellers when your holiday comes to an end this morning after breakfast.
Included Meals: Breakfast
Kings Canyon Resort & Holiday Park Holidays
Situated between Ayers Rock and Alice Springs, Kings Canyon Resort offers 2 restaurants, 2 swimming pools, and a petrol station. It features outback campground rooms and a unique outdoor dining experience.
DoubleTree by Hilton Alice Springs Holidays
Experience eco-friendly luxury and enjoy stunning views of the majestic MacDonnell Mountain Ranges when you stay at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Alice Springs. Conveniently located just off Stuart Highway, the hotel is only 15 minutes’ drive from Alice Springs Airport and within walking distance of downtown.
Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel, Kakadu National Park Holidays
Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel is an idyllic retreat located in the wilderness of Kakadu National Park. Situated in the township of Jabiru, this hotel is the perfect base to start exploring many of Kakadu's most significant natural attractions such as Ubirr, Nourlangie, Cahills Crossing & Mamukala Wetlands.
Image Gallery
Field of light and Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Flinders Range
Kangaroo
Kings Canyon
Wilpena Pound
Wilpena Pound
Field of Light Uluru
Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Uluru and camels
Kings Canyon
Alice Springs
Kakadu National Park
Darwin Crocodiles
Darwin
Litchfield National Park - Florence Falls
Adelaide
Kakadu National Park
Adelaide at night
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