Australia Encompassed

 

Day 1: Your Darwin airport transfer will take you directly to our joining hotel, ready for an early start tomorrow. Today you will meet your crew for your tour briefing and welcome dinner.
Day 2: Today’s ride will see us depart Darwin for a three hour ride into the heart of Australia’s largest and one of its most spectacular national parks, Kakadu.
Day 3: A full day is spent in Kakadu allowing us time to explore the park, go on a sunrise cruise of the Yellow Waters and visit 20,000 year old rock art sites.
Day 4: Riding south we reach the sub tropical town of Katherine where we shall visit the amazing 20 million year old Nitmiluk National Park (Katherine Gorge). and cruise along some of the 13 gorges that make up this remarkable landscape.
Day 5: Today will see us continue south through the quirky Daly Waters Pun and onto the fascinating Newcastle Waters with its hotel made of abandoned windmills. Our destination is Tennant Creek.
Day 6: We shall visit one of the territories most recognizable rock formations the Devils Marbles and the remote Barrow Creek Hotel, dropping into the self proclaimed UFO capital of Australia at Wycliffe Wells before arriving in the heart of Australia at Alice Springs.
Day 7: A free day to explore “the Alice”, where we can visit the superb Transport Halls of Fame for all the trucking tragic's or ride out to the amazing rock formation known as Stanley Chasm in the spectacular West McDonnell Ranges
Day 8: Leaving Alice Springs we ride south, then west, to one of the territories most spectacular sights, the majestic Kings Canyon. We overnight at a wonderfully remote station.
Day 9: After a wonderful "rim walk" for epic views of Kings Canyon, it’s a half-day ride to one of the world’s greatest natural attractions, Uluru or Ayers Rock. Watching sunset over the rock is one of life's great experiences and must be seen to be believed.
Day 10: A full day is spent at the "rock" exploring the Uluru - KataTjuta National Park allowing us time to ride out to the impressive rock formation known as Kata Tjuta, enjoy a walking track to the Valley of the Winds, or take advantage of one of the many optional excursions available; ride a camel, catch a helicopter or join a cultural tour.
Day 11: Today we cross into South Australia and ride into the mulga scrub lands that this region is noted for. We spend the night at the opal mining capital of the world Coober Pedy where over half the population lives underground, as is our hotel.
Day 12: A free day off the bikes today with an opal mine tour that offers us a fascinating demonstration of how the opal is extracted and exploring this very unique town in the remote desert.
Day 13: Continuing south we visit the Woomera, a town faomous for its rocket testing program that only recently finished. Continuing south on the Stuart Highway we arrive at the town of Port Augusta, located on the top of the Spencer Gulf where we can visit the Matthew Flinders Red Cliffs lookout for a wonderful sunset
Day 14: Leaving "the port" we ride north again to Rawnsley Park Station located on the southern end of the Flinders Ranges National Park, via the stunning Moralana Drive dotted with wonderful century old river gums.
Day 15: Today we will explore the magnificent Flinders Ranges National Park via a number of scenic paved and off road tracks. We visit the one horse town of Blinman for their quandong pies and explore this 350 million year old landscape.
Day 16: Riding south we farewell the "outback" as we enter the scenic Clare Valley before reaching Australia’s foremost wine region of the Barossa Valley. We overnight in Lyndoch with its own cellar door.
Day 17: Leaving Lyndoch we ride the beautiful Adelaide Hills, a biker’s paradise with its amazing twisties and the amazing Birdwood Museum. We reach the coast where we enter a world of lagoons, sand dunes and lakes as we ride through the beautiful Coorong National Park before reaching our stay at Robe.
Day 18: We leave South Australia as we cross into Victoria and enter a world of forests, fern gullies, creeks, lakes and swampland as we ride through the 400 million year old Grampians National Park. We stop in Halls Gap for the night.
Day 19: Descending from the Grampians we ride onto one of the world’s finest coastal rides, the Great Ocean Road where we will overnight in Port Campbell.
Day 20: Our last day shall see us ride the legendary Great Ocean Road, stopping at the iconic 12 Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge and many other viewpoints, before riding into the vibrant city of Melbourne.
Departure day: Spend some time exploring Melbourne or fly home, the choice is yours