Savour a Kimberley sundowner as you meet your Travel Director on Cable Beach, watching the Indian Ocean swallow the sun. Clink glasses, swap first impressions, and feel the day cool as the sky drifts from tangerine to indigo over 22 kilometres of pearly sand and gentle surf.

Broome’s pearling heritage and rust-red pindan cliffs frame the scene, with fringing dunes and casuarinas catching the breeze. The laid-back ritual of sunset here sets the tone—relaxed, open, and connected to place—an easy introduction to the Kimberley’s vast horizons.

Discover Gantheaume Point, where the reef platform reveals ancient dinosaur footprints impressed into Broome Sandstone. When tides permit, trace these 125-million-year-old tracks along the wave-washed rocks and pause for photos and reflection beside a turquoise sea backed by fiery red cliffs.

This dramatic headland links science and story: sauropod and theropod prints testify to a primordial Kimberley, while interpretive signs and cliff-top replicas help you visualise the creatures that once roamed here. The coastal light adds theatre to every contour and ripple in the stone.

Explore the limestone passages of Mimbi Caves with an Indigenous guide, moving through cool chambers, delicate formations and crystal pools that are remnants of the Devonian Great Barrier Reef. Hear Dreamtime stories and learn how traditional knowledge maps this underground landscape.

On Gooniyandi Country, the experience deepens over billy tea and damper, with rock art, language and songlines illuminating ancient connections to land and water. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER experience fosters respectful understanding while showcasing the Kimberley’s geological and cultural time scales side by side.

Visit the family-run Hoochery Distillery to learn how Kimberley-grown sugarcane becomes small-batch rum in a rustic outback stillhouse. Meet the makers and sample regional spirits, discovering flavour shaped by climate, craft and country.

Set amid the Ord River farmlands, the distillery reflects the ingenuity that followed the Ord River Irrigation Scheme. Timber beams, corrugated iron and vintage farm machinery tell a hands-on story of persistence and place, where frontier grit meets slow, careful distilling.

Step inside Durack Homestead Museum, a stone homestead painstakingly relocated before Lake Argyle filled. Wander rooms furnished with pioneer memorabilia and photographs that chart the Durack family’s pastoral life across vast, isolated runs.

The building’s limestone blocks and verandas speak to endurance and adaptation. Exhibits trace epic cattle drives, station routines and the upheaval triggered by the Ord River dam—an intimate window into Kimberley history set against the immensity of Australia’s largest man-made lake.

Cruise Lake Argyle at sunset, gliding past rocky islands and flooded valleys as golden light softens the ranges. Scan the shallows for freshwater crocodiles and watch birdlife—darters, kites and cormorants—trace the warm updrafts over the water.

Formed by the Ord River Dam, this vast freshwater expanse reshaped the region’s ecology and livelihood. As the sky burns amber and the lake turns glassy, the Kimberley’s scale becomes tangible—quiet, expansive and intensely atmospheric.

Walk amid the banded sandstone of Mirima National Park (Hidden Valley), where short trails weave between layered domes often likened to a mini Bungle Bungle. Feel the warmth radiate from the rock and notice boabs and eucalypts clinging to shallow soils.

On Miriwoong Country, the formations glow in morning and late-afternoon light, revealing cross-bedded patterns etched by time and weather. This close-to-town escape delivers big geology in a compact setting, perfect for a contemplative stroll and quiet photography.

Experience the Katherine Outback Experience, a lively showcase of station life where skilled handlers work with stock horses and working dogs. Watch training demonstrations unfold to a soundtrack of bush ballads and yarns told with dry Territory humour.

Equal parts entertainment and cultural insight, the show distils the Top End’s pastoral heritage—resourcefulness, horsemanship and community—into an engaging, unscripted performance. Dust, leather and the sweet scent of hay set the scene for an authentic slice of outback character.

Cruise Nitmiluk Gorge through towering sandstone walls carved by the Katherine River. On Jawoyn land, listen for cultural stories tied to the waterway while watching shadows drift across ochre cliffs and tranquil pools alive with bird calls.

Part of a 13-gorge system shaped over millennia, Nitmiluk reveals folding strata, cycads and the quiet glide of freshwater crocodiles. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER experience blends geology and living culture, offering a respectful window into Country’s enduring significance.

Visit the Adelaide River War Cemetery, the solemn resting place of service personnel and civilians who lost their lives during the 1942 air raids on the Top End. Walk the immaculate lawns, read names and units, and pause for reflection amid frangipani and shady trees.

Managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the cemetery anchors the Northern Territory’s WWII story. Thoughtful memorials and precise headstones convey dignity and remembrance in a quiet rural setting just off the Stuart Highway.

Join a guided panoramic tour of Darwin, taking in tropical streets, the waterfront precinct and harbourside viewpoints. See Parliament House, the WWII oil storage tunnels and Stokes Hill Wharf, where wartime and cyclone histories intersect with modern, open-air living.

Stories of Larrakia Country, WWII defence, and Cyclone Tracy’s legacy shape an understanding of Australia’s northern capital. Bougainvillea and banyan trees frame the city’s easygoing energy, with sea breezes and big skies setting a distinctly Top End mood.

Visit a pearl farm near Broome to learn how Pinctada maxima oysters produce luminous South Sea pearls. Cruise or drive to the farm, step through hatchery and seeding operations, and handle shells as guides decode lustre, nacre and grading.

Broome’s pearling story blends Indigenous knowledge, Asian and European enterprise, and the tides of King Sound. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, with time to view finished pieces at the source.

Take to the air for a sweeping flight over the Bungle Bungle Range, where beehive-striped domes ripple across the savannah. An aerial perspective reveals the scale and geometry of Purnululu National Park, etched by erosion into orange-and-grey banded mounds.

Declared World Heritage in 2003 for outstanding natural values, the massif’s hidden gorges and fan-shaped drainages come alive from above. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour, with flight paths tailored to weather and airspace conditions.

Travel by 4WD adventure into Purnululu to stand among the striped domes and walk to Cathedral Gorge, an amphitheatre famed for its acoustics and cool shade. Feel the grit of sandstone underfoot and trace the curves where seasonal waters cut through the rock.

On Gija and Jaru Country, guides share cultural stories and the processes that created the banding—iron-rich layers oxidised alongside clay-rich greys. This immersive day is at additional cost and bookable on tour, with terrain and timings shaped by track conditions.

• 5 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Deluxe coach travel
• 3-star stays
• Selected hotel dinners

• Broome: Relax on Cable Beach
• Halls Creek: Explore Mimbi Caves with an Indigenous guide
• Kununurra: Cruise into sunset on the Ord River
• Katherine: Discover Katherine Outback Experience
• Nitmiluk National Park: Cruise on Nitmiluk Gorge

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