What to take with you
Get lost and rediscover yourself in the outback of Australia, the home of landscapes worn out by time and the never aging Aboriginal culture rhythms.
You can stay on the large cattle stations, take a camel ride in the vast desert or even enjoy an exhilarating scenic fly over the outback’s icons such as Kata Tjuta, the Kimberley, and Uluru.
Catch a glimpse of the six of towns of Australia’s outback from the Broken Hill located in the New South Wales state to Queensland’s Longreach. Alternatively you can go deeper to specific destinations and learn about the ancient Flinders Ranges or the Red Centre’s adventures. Experience Kimberley’s diverse regions in Western Australia.
Enlighten yourself with the rich and lasting Aboriginal culture which is a key part of your experience in the outback. The journeys in the outback give an idea of Australia’s interior vastness. The Gibb River Road and the never ending horizons of the Savannah will give you a challenge worth remembering. Take an acquainting trip in the Ghan rails.
Outback Australia
Learn more about outback Australia where plains run on to eternity and explorers can yarn through without end. Baptized the ‘sunburnt country’ it is truly amazing and refreshing to find ever green waterholes and purple vegetation in the sun beaten dry desert. Experience fiery sunsets in a background of red hills. Find dinosaur footprints, carvings of the Aboriginal, pubs and interesting and colourful people. An unforgettable experience awaits you in the open wide spaces of the Outback.
Red Centre
Chances are that you already know of the red monolith located at Australia’s Centre and that the Aborigines hold it sacred and also that it changes into some spectacular hues both at sunrise and at sunset as well. What you maybe do not know is that you can have this experience this the Aboriginal way. You will also be glad to know that there are more breathtaking sacred sites in the vast of Australia’s centre. Uluru and its cousin Kata Tjuta are located 40 kilometres of each other. The amazing Kings canyon is located near the Alice Springs. You will realize that the landscape has a mixture of red dusty roads, big rock slabs and some lush waterholes tat are surrounded by green vegetation.
You have to get to the Red Centre to comprehend the majesty and the splendour of this isolated place.
The Kimberley
Take a sundowner camel ride through the Broome’s Cable Beach or over and above the Bungle Bungle Ranges. Go cruise the big Lake Argyle and get to see tides as high as a building from Buccaneer Archipelago. A four wheel drive on the Gibb River Road will take you past beautiful gorges and rivers that are mighty. You can take red dirt roads to the Dampier Peninsula. You are bound to love Kimberley with its ancient gorges, golden beaches and vast horizons.
Flinders Ranges
Let the mighty Flinders Ranges connect you back to the earth’s memory. Get down to the ground and rummage for opals or soar up and have a scenic flight over the famous Wilpena Pound. You can rest your head overnight, underground in the Coober Pedy. Take a daring four wheel drive on sharp edged and steep tracks, go hiking on the Heysen trail or enjoy cycling on the Mawson track. The Oodnatta Track will lead you to the remote Lake Eyre which is often arid. Have a taste of the plants of the natives as you learn about the art of the Aborigines from the custodians of the land. Get to see the Rock Wallaby that is yellow footed and quite rare amongst a host of other animals and birds as well kept at the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary. The community’s pastoral history can be explored at the Wilpena Pound Station. Make whole new discoveries on the art of the Aborigines, barren lakes, national parks and moonscapes while at the Flinders Ranges.
Aboriginal Australia
Discover how to connect with the longest living culture in the world.
Learn of this culture the same way it was passed down generations for around 50 000 years. Through the use of their music art, different dances and the land itself. Take in their art and dance along in their contemporary dances while in the city then later retreat to the outback to enjoy Dreamtime stories around a fire. Catch fish the traditional way using home made spears or go snorkeling. The Aboriginals will lead you through their ancient land allowing you to understand its wonders and spirituality.
