Family Vacation: Australian Outback Adventure

This Australian adventure travel package is 100% customizable.  We are Australian travel experts.  We are either from there or travel to the South Pacific every year.  Contact us and tell us about your vacation requests.  We'll match your travel style and time of year, to the hotels and experiences you will love.  We understand your need for someone who listens, provide answers to help you plan, takes care of the arrangements, and makes your trip a perfect experience.

Day 1  Sydney 
Your Australian travels begin in Sydney, Australia’s largest city. Spend three nights exploring the sites and local culture.  Optional touring: historical Sydney walk; Kuringai National Park; half-day city tour; gallery tour.
4-star hotel in Sydney or beach resort 

Day 2  Blue Mountains (L)
Wake up and head out on a guided 4WD Blue Mountains tour exploring the ancient history of the Great Dividing Range. Discover kangaroos in the wild, waterfalls and other exotic wildlife.
4-star hotel in Sydney or beach resort 

Day 3  Sydney 
Day at Leisure.  Optional touring: Sydney bridge climb,  Roar and Snore at Taronga Zoo, guided city bike tour, Sydney Opera House,  Learn to Surf Bondi Beach.
4-star hotel in Sydney or beach resort 

Day 4  Kangaroo Island
Today you’re off on a flight to the Galapagos of Australia, Kangaroo Island. Over the next two days, our mate Craig, an excellent local guide, will reveal the island’s essence. Optional nocturnal wildlife spotting tour.
4-star Boutique Hotel on Kangaroo Island

Day 5  Kangaroo Island
Spend the day touring Kangaroo Island by 4WD vehicle. Highlights include redgum forests, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, sea lions and the endangered glossy black cockatoo. Dine on local seafood BBQ and fine South Australian wines.
4-star Boutique Hotel on Kangaroo Island

Day 6  Kangaroo Island - Adelaide
Touring Kangaroo Island. Today’s highlights include Flinders Chase National Park, Remarkable Rocks, Rocky River Homestead. You’ll see possums, fur seals, goannas, echidnas, koalas, platypus and many birds including the rare Cape Barren Goose. Then it’s on to Adelaide for a night’s rest before your next adventure.
4-star hotel in Adelaide

Day 7  Flinders Ranges, South Australia (B,L,D)
Your family vacation continues on a 4-day Outback tour exploring Aboriginal culture and the region’s scenic beauty.  Travel north to the picturesque Flinders Ranges. Enjoy morning tea on the Port Augusta foreshore. Visit Wadlata Outback Centre for hands-on interpretative displays about the history and culture of the Flinders Ranges. Travel on to the outback towns of Leigh Creek and Copley.
Accommodation in an Aboriginal village

Day 8  Outback, South Australia (B,L,D)
After Breakfast, start the morning with a visit to a spectacular and secluded Aboriginal engraving and etching site.  Walk through the creek bed and marvel at ancient artwork dating back many thousands of years. Enjoy your bush foods morning tea in this peaceful location. Learn the early history of the Adnyamathanha people. See the remnants of Mineruta a former location of an Aboriginal community. After lunch, visit an Aboriginal site renowned for its timeless cave paintings.
Outback Accommodation

Day 9  Outback, South Australia(B,L,D)
Set out for an early then stop for morning tea in a gum tree-lined creek bed. At Ithala Awi (Italowie Gorge), you’ll rest to learn about native bush foods and experience remote, timeless Aboriginal engravings and rock etchings. Hear a creation story that explains geographical features of the surrounding area. Look for the endangered yellow-footed rock wallabies and other wildlife. Arrive at Wilpena Pound, settle in for dinner before retiring to your deluxe accommodation.
Outback Accommodation

Day 10  Wilpena Pound - Adelaide (B,L)
Today, visit local Aboriginal rock art site depicting the creation of Wilpena Pound (1.5 hr moderate walk) or sleep in and relax at your resort. Depart for the historic town of Hawker and have lunch. Visit the Wilpena Panorama Gallery and enjoy locally produced art, craft and food.  On your way back to Adelaide, visit a cellar door for a quick wine tasting in the Clare Valley.
4-star hotel in Adelaide

Day 11  Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory (D)
This morning, fly north to Darwin and board connecting scenic flight to your luxury wilderness lodge, Bamurru Plains. Your accommodation is located just to the west of Kakadu National Park on the Mary River floodplains. An astonishing array of birds and wildlife are on the doorstep of your luxury bush camp.
Bamurru Plains

Day 12  Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (B,L,D)
This morning, take a 20 minute chartered flight to Jabiru in Kakadu National Park. You will meet up with your guide a day immersed in the Aboriginal culture of Arnhem Land. Arnhem Land is perhaps the one area in Australia where Aboriginal culture is still dominant, despite a long history of interacting with other cultures. A local guide will show you excellent examples of rock art on Injalak Hill (Long Tom Dreaming), an area that has some of the best rock art in the country. The view from the top of the hill is simply breathtaking, looking out around the escarpment and across the floodplain. In the afternoon explore a remote valley - stunning scenery, billabongs, and a place to imagine the life of the Aboriginal people who have been at home here for 50,000 years or more.
Bamurru Plains

Day 13  Daintree Rainforest, Queensland (B)
Board a short flight to Darwin and connect on to Cairns. You’re headed to the Daintree rainforest. You’ve got three nights of boutique lodging in the world’s oldest living rainforest. The spa features Aboriginal massage techniques and products.
4-star Eco lodge

Day 14-15  Daintree Rainforest, Queensland (B)
Over the next two days, let the expert staff take you out on guided nature walks. The property's natural waterfall is said to possess healing powers significant to women. Your guides will point out bush medicines, foods, and discuss traditional life and history. You will also learn about traditional weaponry and artifacts and experience a cultural workshop. You can take a cruise along the Daintree River, go bird watching, take a 4WD tour, fish, or ride horses. And since you’re so close, you can also take a Great Barrier Reef Cruise.
4-star Eco lodge

Day 16  Depart (B)
Early morning departure.  Transfer to Cairns airport, where you will begin your journey home to Los Angeles, arriving the same day. The international date line is a funny thing.

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