AAT Kings

• 3 Lunch (L)
• 8 Breakfast (B)
• 2 Dinner (D)

• Day prior: Flights to arrive anytime into Sydney Airport  Day 9: Flights to depart from 7.00pm (Domestic) and 8.00pm (International) from Sydney Airport.
  Airport to Hotel transfers are available to purchase on request.
  Flights to and from your tour are not included in the tour price.

• Comfortable walking shoes
  Warm layers in cooler months
  Sunglasses, sunscreen and hat
  Water bottle
  Camera

• A moderate level of fitness is required. Visiting the opal mine in White Cliffs involves descending 13.5 metres underground and walking along an unsealed path. The walk at Mungo National Park is on sandy surfaces.

Sample organic and biodynamic wines during a guided tasting at Lowe Family Wine Co. in Mudgee, one of New South Wales’ established wine regions. Enjoy lunch featuring homegrown and local produce alongside the tasting.

Discover how the region’s vineyards and farming traditions shape its food and wine culture. With time to discuss the wines as you taste, this is a closer introduction to Mudgee than a simple cellar-door stop.

Explore the museum in Nyngan’s historic railway station and uncover stories of pioneering life in inland New South Wales. The former station provides a fitting setting for learning about a town shaped by travel, trade and the demands of life far from the coast.

Rail connections helped regional communities move people and goods across long distances. This visit puts the surrounding outback landscape in human context through the experiences of those who settled and worked here.

Discover Cobar’s mining history at the Cobar Museum, where the town’s past offers insight into the people and industries of western New South Wales. Explore the story of a community closely tied to mineral discoveries and the work of extracting them.

Mining has long shaped Cobar’s identity, from its working landscape to its local heritage. The museum visit makes those connections tangible, giving you a deeper understanding of outback life beyond the mines themselves.

Look out across Cobar’s Open Cut Mine from Fort Bourke Hill Lookout. The elevated vantage point reveals the scale of mining in this part of New South Wales, with the excavation set against a broad outback horizon.

See how industry has transformed the landscape around a town with a longstanding mining legacy. This scenic stop gives a visual perspective on the scale of the work described in Cobar’s local history.

Descend into a working opal mine at White Cliffs, Australia’s oldest commercial opal field. Walk among the historic diggings and learn how miners continue to search for gemstones in this remote corner of New South Wales.

White Cliffs is especially known for white opal. Seeing the underground workings brings the town’s mining heritage into focus. The visit involves a descent of approximately 13.5 metres and walking along an unsealed path.

Walk through Broken Hill with a guide and discover the Victorian and Art Deco architecture of this far-western city. Learn how a remote mining settlement grew into a place recognised for its heritage, art and distinctive outback character.

The streets tell a story that extends beyond the mines: civic ambition, changing fortunes and a creative community all have a place here. A guided walk helps connect the city’s buildings with the people who shaped them.

Visit Broken Hill City Art Gallery, the oldest regional art gallery in New South Wales. Explore an artistic side of a city often defined by its mining history and see why Broken Hill is also known as a centre for outback culture.

The gallery offers a different way to engage with the region: through the perspectives and creative work it brings together. It is a worthwhile counterpoint to the city’s industrial landmarks and heritage streets.

View the 12 sandstone sculptures at Broken Hill’s Living Desert and Sculptures site, set high above the surrounding country. Take in the artworks and expansive views towards the Barrier Ranges in the changing light of evening.

The sculpted stone and open landscape create a setting unlike a conventional gallery. As sunset shifts the colours of the outback, there is time to appreciate both the artists’ work and the scale of the country around it.

Explore the heritage streets of Silverton, a former silver-mining settlement near Broken Hill, and visit the Silverton Gaol & Historical Museum. Wander through a town whose surviving buildings evoke its busy mining past.

Inside the former gaol, discover colonial artefacts, early mining equipment and stories of outback pioneers. Together, the streets and museum reveal how this once-thriving settlement became the quiet, character-filled place visitors encounter today.

Join an Indigenous local guide in Kinchega National Park to learn about Barkindji culture and the Menindee Lakes country. Hear ancestral knowledge and Creation stories that express the Barkindji people’s enduring connection to Country.

Discover traditional uses of native plants for food and medicine, and learn how bush foods have sustained Aboriginal communities over thousands of years. Guided by a local perspective, the lakes and surrounding landscape become places of living cultural knowledge.

Explore Mungo National Park through a visit to the Mungo Visitor Centre and a walk at the Walls of China with a local Aboriginal guide. See sculpted formations rising from ancient lakebeds in the World Heritage-listed Willandra Lakes Region.

Learn about more than 40,000 years of Aboriginal history and the discoveries of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, which provided some of Australia’s earliest evidence of human occupation. The guided walk brings cultural meaning to this striking, fragile landscape; expect sandy surfaces underfoot.

Watch a live shearing demonstration at Shear Outback and learn the language and working traditions of the shearing shed. The experience offers a close-up look at the skill behind an industry central to Australia’s pastoral history.

Discover how wool production and life on the land shaped rural communities across the country. Hearing the stories alongside the demonstration gives the work, its tools and its traditions a human dimension beyond the familiar image of the outback shearer.

Choose to visit the Royal Flying Doctor Outback Heritage Experience in Broken Hill to learn about the service that brings medical care to people across remote Australia. Explore the story of healthcare delivered over distances that make an ordinary trip to a hospital difficult.

The experience offers insight into a defining part of outback life and the people who support isolated communities. This optional visit is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Visit the Pro Hart Gallery in Broken Hill for a closer look at the work of one of the city’s best-known artists. The visit offers another perspective on a place where mining history and artistic expression sit side by side.

Pro Hart’s association with Broken Hill makes the gallery a compelling choice for travellers interested in the city’s creative identity. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Experience Broken Hill’s night sky with Outback Astronomy. Step away from the city’s daytime landmarks and turn your attention to the stars above the open landscapes of far-western New South Wales.

For travellers drawn to the region’s vast horizons, this offers a distinctive way to appreciate the outback after dark. The experience is optional, at additional cost and bookable on tour; ask your Tour Director for available details.