• 7 Breakfast (B)
• 4 Dinner (D)
• 2 Lunch (L)

• A medium level of fitness is required.
  Wilpena Pound: This 6km hike to the Homestead will be suitable for most guests however the track has uneven surfaces and is rocky in places. Retractable hiking poles may be useful.
  Arkaroola: The Ridgetop 4WD tour: Guests will sit in the back of an open air 4WD. It is wheelchair accessible however due to the roads being quite rough in places, it’s not recommended for pregnant travellers or people with serious back problems. The tour will take approximately 4 hours and no toilets are available.
  Anna Creek Painted Hills: The Lake Eyre flight will touch down at Anna Creek Painted Hills and guests will have the opportunity to have a walk around the area. This is an extremely remote area and ground will be rocky and uneven. Guests with mobility issues may wish to choose to stay close to the aircraft.
  Adelaide to Coober Pedy and surrounds full day tour: Part of the tour will include walking down into mine shafts. Areas may have low lighting, and ground will be uneven in places with steep steps.

• Day 1: Flights to arrive prior to 11.00am into Adelaide AirportDay 8: Flights to depart after 5.00pm from Adelaide 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
  Sunglasses, sunscreen and hat
  Warm layers in cooler months
  Water bottle
  Camera

Visit Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club for a look at a course shaped by its desert setting. Instead of conventional grass fairways, the club makes use of sandy ground and an oil-soaked green—an inventive response to scarce water and intense heat.

The stop shows how familiar pastimes take on a different character in an outback mining town. It is a chance to see the course and its unusual playing surface; the itinerary does not specify a round of golf.

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Meet your fellow travellers over a welcome drink and discover South Australia’s capital on an organised city tour. Take in a cross-section of Adelaide life, from the sporting heritage of Adelaide Oval to the green spaces of the Botanic Garden.

The route also introduces the Art Gallery of South Australia and Adelaide Central Market, a longstanding centre of local food culture. Together, these places reveal a city shaped by sport, art, gardens and a lively produce scene; the tour does not specify entry to each site.

Taste Clare Valley wines at Knappstein Enterprise Winery in the region’s central township. A cellar-door visit offers a chance to explore local varieties and the styles produced in one of Australia’s oldest wine regions.

Knappstein’s roots reach back to 1878, giving the tasting a connection to generations of winemaking. The Clare Valley’s vineyards sit among rolling hills north of Adelaide, where a comparatively cool climate helps shape the wines’ character.

Explore Wilpena Pound in Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park and take in its sweeping form from Wangara Lookout. The viewpoint reveals a vast natural amphitheatre ringed by rugged ridges, with red rock and changing light giving the landscape its distinctive depth.

A walk towards the historic Homestead is also noted in the tour’s fitness guidance. Expect rocky, uneven sections on the approximately six-kilometre hike. The area is part of Adnyamathanha Country, where ancient geology and living cultural heritage meet.

Explore the night sky on an astronomy tour at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary. Away from major cities, look up at the Milky Way and a dense field of stars against the darkness of the northern Flinders Ranges.

Arkaroola is recognised as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, reflecting the exceptional quality and protection of its night skies. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience draws attention to the value of preserving natural darkness as well as the remote landscape below it.

Ride the Ridgetop Track by open-air 4WD with a local guide through Arkaroola’s steep, rocky terrain. Rough ascents lead towards high viewpoints over ancient ranges, deep gorges and the desert country stretching towards Lake Frome.

Your guide helps interpret a landscape with a geological history reaching back around 1.6 billion years, including plant life found nowhere else. The approximately four-hour ride is notably rough, offering an up-close sense of the remoteness that defines this wilderness sanctuary.

Visit the Ochre Pits near Lyndhurst, where bands of earthy colour mark the outback terrain. See how reds, yellows and other warm hues appear in the exposed ground, standing out against the surrounding arid landscape.

Ochre is more than a striking natural pigment: Aboriginal communities have used it in cultural and ceremonial practices for centuries. This visit offers a chance to appreciate both the vivid geology of the area and the continuing cultural significance of its natural materials.

Explore the remains of Farina, a former outback settlement near Marree. Its surviving buildings and ruins evoke the ambitions of nineteenth-century settlers who established a community in this demanding, dry country.

Farina’s near-empty streets and weathered structures offer a tangible contrast to the activity the town once supported. Learning why people came and why they eventually left adds a human dimension to the vast landscapes of South Australia’s interior.

Follow the Oodnadatta Track through remote South Australian country, tracing a corridor closely associated with the original Ghan Railway. This is a journey through outback history as well as open desert scenery, with traces of past transport routes set against a wide horizon.

The old railway helped connect isolated settlements with the rest of Australia. Travelling this historic route offers a sense of the distances faced by those who built and relied on those links, with Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre country adding a striking natural backdrop.

Take a scenic flight over Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre and the Anna Creek Painted Hills. From the air, Australia’s largest inland lake reveals its immense scale: often a pale saltpan, it changes dramatically when rare rains bring water into the basin.

Fly over the Painted Hills’ coloured outcrops, whose shapes rise from the surrounding desert plain. The aircraft lands for a walk among the hills, giving you a ground-level view of this exceptionally remote terrain. The surface is rocky and uneven.

Discover Coober Pedy’s underground world, where residents have made homes beneath the surface to escape the desert heat. Explore the town’s opal-mining story through mine visits and try your hand at fossicking for the gemstone that made it famous.

Descending into mining areas brings the practical realities of this unusual settlement into focus. Expect some steep steps, low light and uneven ground in the shafts, alongside insight into the resourcefulness required to live and work in the outback.

Explore Aboriginal-owned Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park near Coober Pedy, where sculpted mesas and stark, multicoloured terrain rise from the desert. The landscape’s cinematic appearance has made it a location for films including Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

See a section of the Dog Fence, also known as the Dingo Fence, a barrier extending roughly 5,300 kilometres across southern Australia. Together, the park and fence offer contrasting perspectives on this country: its enduring natural forms and the ways people have sought to manage life within it.

Experience the Big Winch 360º circlevision show in Coober Pedy, an immersive presentation of the region’s landscapes and history. The panoramic format brings the scale of the surrounding desert and the story of the opal-mining town into view.

The experience includes dinner as the sun sets over the outback. Changing light across the arid landscape gives the evening a distinctive setting, while the show adds context to the town’s unusual underground life and its relationship with the desert.

See the broad saltpan of Lake Hart, a stark South Australian landscape where pale ground stretches towards the horizon. Its open, largely treeless setting conveys the scale and isolation of the outback.

A community developed here in the 1930s, but little of that activity remains today. The contrast between the near-deserted lakeside and its human history makes Lake Hart more than a scenic view: it is a reminder of how difficult permanent settlement can be in this environment.

Explore Woomera township and learn why this remote stretch of South Australia became a centre for military and aerospace testing. Established in 1947 as part of a British-led programme, Woomera developed around an immense testing range.

Its history encompasses missiles and satellite-related projects, alongside the wider story of weapons testing in the region. The township offers a perspective on an often-overlooked chapter of Australian history and on the strategic value once placed on the outback’s isolation.

Taste local wines at Lambert Estate in the Barossa, with lunch and views across the vines. The winery visit offers a relaxed introduction to regional vintages in one of Australia’s oldest and best-known wine regions.

The Barossa’s long winemaking tradition is closely tied to generations of local growers and makers. Enjoying wine alongside a vineyard outlook brings that heritage into focus, connecting what is in the glass with the landscape and the people who produce it.