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21 Days in Australia - 25 to 35 years oldSydney – Cairns – The Red Centre – The Outback - Adelaide B = Breakfast L= Lunch D = Dinner
Departure from Italy
Arrival in Sydney. Welcome by your tour guide. Departure for a city orientation tour then ferry to Manly beach. Free time on the beach. Most of the famous Australian surf brands have shops in Manly: Mabi, Rip Curl, Quicksilver. Lunch 2 courses (main course + dessert) in Manly included. Return transfer on ferry then bus. Check into your rooms in the afternoon. Dinner 2 courses (main course + dessert) included. Night at the YHA Railway Square youth hostel. This youth hostel is located in the centre of Sydney, close to Chinatown and alongside Central Station. Opened a few months ago, it is furnished in a contemporary urban style, with a touch of its location; some rooms being set inside train carriages!!! Facilities include: • Air-conditioned rooms – 6 people per room • Internet Access • Swimming Pool Towels are not included.
Free day Selection of activities: • Kayaking in Sydney harbour • Jet-boating • Surf lessons in Manly – 2 hour lesson with professional surf teacher, return transfer included. Dinner 2 courses (main course + dessert) included.
Free day. Selection of activities: • One-day walking trip in one of Sydney’s national parks, including a ferry crossing on the Pittwater Estuary. • One-day trip to the Sydney Olympic Park: • Visit the Olympic Pool and free time to look around and a choice of: • Trapeze lesson or • Archery Dinner 2 courses (main course + dessert) included.
Flight Sydney – Cairns. Lunch on board. Arrival in Cairns. Transfer to your hotel, the SERPENT HOSTEL .This youth hostel is located 10 minutes away from the centre of Cairns, and it is only a 5 minute walk to the sea. Facilities include: • Air-conditioned rooms – 6 people per room. • Free tea and coffee • Huge tropical swimming pool • Bar & café • Internet access • Free shuttle to the city centre. Dinner 2 courses (main course + dessert) included. Night at the Serpent Hostel
A coach from Passions of Paradise company will pick you up at the hotel. Cruise on the Great Barrier Reef on an 18 metre long catamaran. See their website: www.passions.com.au Included: • Return transfer from your hotel • Buffet lunch • Visit two sites on the Great Barrier Reef: one on the outer reef (more sea-life and more colourful than the inner reef, closer to the coast) and one sand islet. • Professional diving/snorkelling instructors • Snorkelling equipment Dinner 2 courses (main course + dessert) included. Night at the Serpent Hostel
Free day in Cairns. Selection of activities: • ˝ day rafting • Bungy jumping Dinner 2 courses (main course + dessert) included. Night at the Serpent Hostel
Flight Cairns – Alice Springs. Lunch on board Alice Springs, real oasis in the middle of the desert, is a small modern city, isolated from the rest of the world by huge areas of desert. Regional farmers (the average size of a farm is 4 000 km2!!), aborigines, state employees and tourists all live together in this characteristically charming city. From the airport, depart to visit the Desert Park; a fantastic park recreating all the different habitats of the desert and providing shelter for wildlife from the area. The Park works as a rehabilitation program for endangered animals (50% of the Australian marsupials have disappeared since the Europeans first landed in Australia). It’s a great opportunity to meet reptiles and other animals from the desert. Check into your room in the afternoon. Buffet dinner with aboriginal show, to learn more about the way aborigines survived in these arid areas for thousands of years. Night at the Heavitree Gap Outback Lodge – The rock wallabies are frequent visitors at the hotel!
In the morning, visit to the World’s unique radio-wave school, essential for the numerous children living in isolated areas and not able to attend school: The school comes to them by radio-waves. Lunch on the way. After lunch, journey through the desert to the Watarrka National Park (Kings Canyon) An incredible sandstone landscape, with some rock faces reaching 100 ms in height. Night at the Kings Creek Station Campsite; one of the farms unique to the Red Centre.
An early 3 hour walk in Kings Canyon; possibility of swimming in the luxuriant gorge belonging to the Garden of Eden. After the walk, on the road again to Ayers Rock (350 km). Suddenly, in the distance appears, the sacred rock, Uluru, dominating the red landscape. Entrance to the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Parc, land of the Anangu aborigines. You will arrive in time to see the sunset, when the rock changes colours.
Walk around (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), to better discover and appreciate these rock formations. They have a very important place in the aborigine’s history and legends. Some free time to take advantage of the range of activities in the resort: panoramic flights, shopping, visit to the information centre. Night at Ayers Rock Resort, Camping
Journey through the centre of Australia on the Stuart Highway (the only road in the Centre anyway!), retracing the path of the first explorers, who were eager to discover the interior of this enormous continent. Visit to an aboriginal cultural centre, (possibility of visiting the school too). As you travel you will discover the desert landscape: red sand dunes, stony deserts… Then you will arrive at Coober Pedy, capital of Australian opals, and famous for its lunar landscape. Here, to protect themselves against the heat (50 degrees during the summertime) and the cold (below zero during the wintertime), the people live underground, where the temperatures are stable (around 24-26 degrees). Visit an opal mine. Night in the underground dormitories in Coober Pedy. In addition: In the evening, if the weather is clear, possibility of looking at the stars with an astronomer. Additional fees: $14 per person.
Begin the day on the legendary (and dusty!) track of Oodnadatta, following the path taken by the afghan camel driver during the late 19th century to deliver supplies to Alice Springs, 880 km further on … William Creek: Stop for the night in this typical Australian outback pub, lost in the middle of the desert. The closest city is…. 250 km away!!! Night in cabins at William Creek
Continue on the track to the Flinders Ranges National Park, ranges offering a breathtaking landscape. Night in the Angorichina Gorge.
The Parachilna Gorges are a real wall before the desert, which stretch as far as the eye can see. You will drive through several ghost cities, bearing witness to a past where pioneers’ dreams were frequently broken … Night at Wilpena Pound
You leave the Flinders Ranges to the south, driving trough the wine-growing region of Clare and the picturesque villages of Laura, Quorn, Melrose and Wilmington. Arrival in Adelaide in the afternoon. Night at Adelaide’s Youth Hostel
Early departure to Cape Jervis to catch the ferry to Kangaroo Island. KI, as called by the natives, is one of the most untouched areas of Australia in terms of its nature, and its coast offers incredible diversity. You will see some dramatic cliffs, breaker waves, desert beaches, sheltered bays and the ocean, with its fantastic deep blue colour. But most of all, KI is renowned for its fauna: the Australian sea lions which can be seen resting on the Seal Bay beaches, the koalas perched in the eucalypts, the echidna walking slowly across the tracks, or the wallabies, curious by nature, who will let you approach them. Night at Kangaroo Island.
Continuation of the visit of the island before taking the ferry back to Adelaide.
Transfer to Adelaide Airport with assistance for your departure.
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