Visit Geraldton’s HMAS Sydney II Memorial and reflect on the 645 sailors lost when the Australian warship sank off the Western Australian coast in 1941. Its elevated setting provides space to pause above the seaside town.

The memorial’s sculptural elements honour the ship, its crew and the families left behind. This poignant chapter of Australia’s wartime history gives deeper meaning to the coastline beyond Geraldton.

Experience songs, stories and outback humour at the Katherine Outback Experience. This live encounter introduces the people and traditions connected with the Northern Territory’s pastoral country.

Rather than a conventional sightseeing stop, the experience brings everyday rural skills and personalities into focus. It offers a lively perspective on the Territory’s working-country culture and the communities that have made their lives across its vast pastoral landscapes.

Visit the Adelaide River War Cemetery to reflect on the lives lost during World War II in Australia’s north. Its carefully tended grounds provide a quiet setting for remembrance.

The Northern Territory played a significant role in Australia’s wartime defence and endured repeated air raids. This visit places the events of that period in a human context, offering a moment of reflection amid the region’s broader stories of landscape and culture.

AAT Kings

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

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

• Day 1 – flights to arrive prior to 12 noon into Perth AirportDay 19 – flights to depart anytime from Darwin Airport
  Return Airport to Hotel transfers are available to purchase on request.
  Flights to and from your tour are not included in the tour price.

• Extreme temperatures can be experienced in this remote region of Australia. Guests should be made aware that this trip is recommended to guests with a moderate level of fitness.
  In addition, the walk to Emma Gorge considered “Difficult” and not all guests will be able to complete the walk. Mimbi Caves have very low light and involves uneven surface, walking over rocks throughout the caves. It is recommended for guests with a good level of fitness only.

Explore Western Australia’s capital with your Travel Director, taking in Perth’s street art and the native plantings of Kings Park and Botanic Garden. Set above a bend in the Swan River, the park offers broad views across the city.

Visit the State War Memorial within Kings Park, a place of remembrance for Western Australians who served in conflict. The tour pairs Perth’s creative streets with its green spaces and commemorative heritage.

Meet your fellow travellers over dinner in Perth at the start of the journey. It is a hosted opportunity to get acquainted with the people who will share the West Coast and Kimberley adventure.

Conversation turns to the landscapes ahead, from coastal reefs to inland gorges. Unlike a routine meal stop, this welcome gathering gives the group a chance to connect before travelling through some of Australia’s most remote regions.

Walk among the limestone spires of the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, where thousands of pale columns rise from coastal sand. Their shifting shapes make this one of Western Australia’s most distinctive geological landscapes.

The formations developed over thousands of years as shell-rich limestone was exposed by erosion. Against the open sky and sand, the Pinnacles’ near-lunar scenery reveals a striking record of the coast’s changing environment.

Explore Kalbarri National Park and look out from the Kalbarri Skywalk over Murchison River Gorge. Elevated platforms open sweeping views of the river and the layered rock it has carved through the landscape.

The park also supports a remarkable diversity of wildflowers. In season, acacias, banksias and delicate orchids add colour to the surrounding bush, contrasting with the rust-red gorge walls below.

Discover the stromatolites at Hamelin Pool in the Shark Bay World Heritage area. These layered structures are formed by microbial communities and offer a rare, visible connection to some of Earth’s earliest life processes.

Hamelin Pool’s unusually saline water helps protect the living formations. Looking across its shallow shoreline, consider how similar microbial activity helped shape the planet’s atmosphere billions of years ago. Access and viewing conditions may vary to protect this fragile site.

Visit Shell Beach in World Heritage-listed Shark Bay, where the shore is made not of sand but of countless tiny white cockle shells. The bright expanse meets clear water in one of Western Australia’s most unusual coastal settings.

The shells have accumulated in extraordinary quantities under Shark Bay’s distinctive environmental conditions. Pause to take in the crisp contrast of white shoreline and blue water and see why this landscape stands apart from a conventional beach.

Watch for the wild dolphins that visit Monkey Mia’s shore in Shark Bay. Seeing these animals close to the water’s edge offers a memorable glimpse of their behaviour in a natural coastal setting.

Monkey Mia is known for its long-running, carefully managed dolphin interactions. The animals remain wild and free to come and go, so their appearance cannot be guaranteed. The encounter is a chance to appreciate the marine life of this World Heritage-listed region without treating it as a performance.

Join proud Nhanda man Darren ‘Capes’ Capewell in Shark Bay for a First Nations cultural experience. Hear about ways stories are shared and listen to a didgeridoo performance in the region his community calls home.

Aboriginal people have maintained connections with Shark Bay for tens of thousands of years. This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience brings a living cultural perspective to a place often celebrated for its beaches and wildlife.

Cruise over Ningaloo Reef from Coral Bay aboard a glass-bottom boat, viewing the underwater world without needing to enter the water. An onboard guide points out coral formations and the fish moving among them; turtles may also be seen.

The reef lies within the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Coast, renowned for its rich marine life and close-to-shore coral habitat. The clear viewing panels make its colours and movement accessible to swimmers and non-swimmers alike.

Explore Karijini National Park’s ancient gorges on a tour through the Pilbara’s striking red-rock landscape. Layered cliffs, gum trees and water-carved passages show the scale and variety of this vast national park.

The Hamersley Range records geological processes stretching back billions of years. Depending on conditions and the places visited, there may be an opportunity to cool off in a waterhole. Uneven terrain and heat make sturdy footwear and a moderate level of fitness important.

Pause at a coastal lookout near Port Hedland to scan the water for marine wildlife. During the appropriate season, migrating humpback whales or snubfin dolphins may be visible offshore.

The viewpoint offers a different perspective on the Pilbara, where the region’s mineral-rich red earth meets the Indian Ocean. Wildlife sightings depend on season and conditions, but the coastal outlook is rewarding in its own right.

Discover Broome on a city tour exploring its pearling heritage. Learn how the search for pearl shell drew people from across Asia and beyond, helping shape the town’s multicultural character.

Broome’s history is inseparable from the warm waters off the Kimberley coast and the people who worked its pearling fleets. The tour adds context to the town’s streets and coastal setting, revealing the stories behind Australia’s pearling capital.

Visit Gantheaume Point near Broome for a look at the dramatic Kimberley coastline and its prehistoric legacy. Dinosaur tracks preserved in the rock record life here more than 125 million years ago.

The point’s red cliffs stand against the blue Indian Ocean, making the setting as compelling as its geology. Footprint visibility depends on the tide and conditions, so the visit is an opportunity to appreciate both the site and the ancient story it preserves.

Explore the Mimbi Caves with a local Indigenous guide, moving through limestone chambers to see formations, freshwater pools and ancient rock art. Hear cultural stories over billy tea and damper during this MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience.

The caves are part of a reef system formed more than 350 million years ago. Low light and uneven, rocky surfaces make this visit best suited to travellers with a good level of fitness.

Discover Wyndham, Western Australia’s northernmost town, and take in the landforms and wetlands around this remote Kimberley settlement. The visit offers a close look at a small community framed by expansive northern scenery.

Wyndham sits near the meeting of several major river systems and the tidal waters of the Cambridge Gulf. Its setting gives a sense of the Kimberley’s vast river country, where rugged ranges, floodplains and changing water levels shape the landscape.

Go behind the scenes at family-owned Hoochery Distillery near Kununurra to see how its rum is made. The visit includes time with the people behind the operation and morning tea.

The distillery uses Australian sugarcane, rainwater and yeast, connecting its craft to crops grown in the Ord River irrigation region. It is a distinctive introduction to the agricultural ingenuity of the East Kimberley, told through a local business rather than a roadside stop.

Visit the Durack Homestead Museum to explore the lives of early pastoral settlers in the East Kimberley. The homestead offers a tangible view of domestic life in a remote region shaped by cattle stations and long distances.

The building was moved and reconstructed before its original site was flooded by the Ord River irrigation project. Its preservation adds a human story to the creation of Lake Argyle and the transformation of the surrounding countryside.

Cruise Lake Argyle towards sunset, watching the light change across the water and surrounding East Kimberley ranges. Keep an eye out for waterbirds and freshwater crocodiles as you travel through this expansive inland setting.

Lake Argyle was created by damming the Ord River as part of the region’s irrigation scheme. From the water, its scale becomes clear: a vast lake set within rugged country, where wildlife and the engineering history of the Kimberley meet.

Walk through Mirima National Park with your Travel Director near Kununurra, learning how its weathered rock formations took shape. The compact park is often nicknamed the ‘mini Bungles’ for its distinctive sandstone scenery.

Paths among the rock outcrops provide a close-up view of the East Kimberley’s colours and textures. This guided walk is the included way to explore the landscape for travellers who do not choose a Bungle Bungles flight or 4WD excursion.

Cruise through Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge on Jawoyn Country, looking up at sandstone walls that change colour with the light. The river journey reveals the scale of a gorge system carved through Nitmiluk National Park.

This MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® experience brings attention to the Jawoyn people’s enduring connection to the gorge, alongside its natural history. Travelling by water allows time to observe the cliffs, quiet reaches and cultural significance of the landscape.

Discover Darwin on a city tour that introduces the Northern Territory capital’s architecture and the events that shaped it. Its tropical streets and waterfront setting provide a vivid contrast to the inland country of the Top End.

Darwin’s story includes the World War II bombing of the city and later rebuilding after Cyclone Tracy. The tour helps explain how history has shaped modern Darwin, giving context to the city’s resilient character.

Gather with fellow travellers for dinner at a Darwin waterfront restaurant. The shared meal is a chance to exchange stories from the coast, reefs, gorges and outback communities visited across Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Darwin’s warm evening atmosphere provides a fitting setting for a hosted farewell gathering. It is the tour’s closing social experience, rather than simply an independent restaurant meal.

Snorkel in search of whale sharks on a seasonal excursion along the Ningaloo Coast. Local operators conduct the encounter in open water, where these enormous, plankton-feeding fish may be seen moving beneath the surface.

Ningaloo is one of the world’s best-known places for seasonal whale shark encounters, but sightings depend on nature and conditions. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; availability depends on the time of year and operator schedules.

Join a seasonal in-water humpback whale experience along the Ningaloo Coast, operated under wildlife-interaction guidelines. An encounter offers the rare chance to observe these migrating whales in their ocean habitat.

Humpbacks travel along the Western Australian coast at particular times of year; conditions and the whales’ behaviour determine whether swimming can take place. The excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to seasonal availability and the operator’s requirements.

Cruise the Ningaloo Coast at sunset for a water-level view of the shoreline as the light softens. Watch the sea for dolphins and, in season, migrating humpback whales; sightings remain unpredictable.

This is an alternative way to experience Ningaloo’s marine setting without snorkelling. The combination of open water and changing evening colour gives the coast a different character. The cruise is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability.

Visit a Broome-area pearl farm to learn how pearls are cultivated and why pearling became central to the town’s identity. See the care and skill involved in producing gems from oysters raised in coastal waters.

The experience adds a working-industry perspective to Broome’s multicultural pearling history, connecting a finished pearl to the people and processes behind it. This excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to availability.

Fly over the Bungle Bungle Range on a scenic excursion from the Kununurra region. An aerial view reveals the scale and patterns of the sandstone domes within Purnululu National Park.

The range’s distinctive banding and deeply dissected terrain make it a compelling landscape to view from above. This flight is an alternative to a ground-based 4WD visit and is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to weather and availability.

Explore the Bungle Bungle Range by 4WD on an optional excursion into Purnululu National Park. Travelling overland provides a ground-level perspective on the Kimberley terrain and its remarkable sandstone formations.

The domes are known for their alternating bands of rock and the immense geological timespan recorded in the range. This tour is an alternative to the scenic flight and is at additional cost and bookable on tour, subject to road conditions and availability.