Enjoy a super-sized Australian adventure!
Flexible new tours that you can tailor to your tastes
LAVISHING visitors with many of the world’s most spectacular highlights and hidden gems, vibrant Australia sits rightfully at the top of most people’s bucket lists.
Opportunities here are as vast as the horizons, with super-sized experiences such exploring the mysterious Outer Barrier Reef, a Sydney Harbour lunch cruise and sunset at Uluru forming the backbone of any big adventure.
The immense grandeur of the Outback combines cobalt-blue skies, fiery red earth, dramatic gorges and rock formations as unique as the wildlife.
Its extraordinary sunsets and star-crammed skies form a vivid backdrop to indigenous traditions intertwined with this ancient land.
And along the surf-washed shores, sublime white-sand beaches give way to fun cities, rainforests and reefs, while stunning islands teem with kangaroos, koalas and possums.
Diverse Australia has so many wonders, you won’t want to miss a thing. But neither do you want to be locked into an inflexible itinerary that dictates your every move.
The good news is that the latest escorted tours can be tailored to your tastes, offering varied means of travel and excursion options to reveal this great land from all the best angles, yet at a leisurely pace so that you can take it all in. This makes it easy to plot out the great Aussie walkabout that suits you best.
FANTASTIC OPTIONS
TAKE Distant Journeys’ ‘Wonders Of Australia’ tour, which can be customised from the start.
There are regional flight options at no extra cost, and a choice of exciting stopovers in dazzling Dubai or in Singapore, the inspirational crossroads of Asia. And once on the ground in Australia, your flexible tour kicks off with a range of choices during a three-night stay exploring the arts and alleyways of Melbourne.
Discover the city, then mix and match sightings of the Twelve Apostles (limestone stacks) along the Great Ocean Road, with a visit to Phillip Island to see the enchanting fairy penguin parade, a steam train ride into the mountains, or dinner on an historic tramcar.
And the fantastic options keep on coming — from a behind-the-scenes tour at the Opera House, perched by the shimmering waters of Sydney Harbour, to a hot-air balloon ride over Alice.
Tailor your itinerary as you go, almost like a private tour, while also benefiting from the significant cost-saving advantages and enjoyment of being part of a like-minded group.
Hotels are hand-picked, with central locations (breakfast is included), so that it’s easy to explore. And an expert tour manager will take the stress out of finding a place to eat or booking a special trip.
There’s free time, too. And you could even tag on a New Zealand tour for the ultimate Australasian adventure.
Another memorable highlight is laidback, tropical Cairns, where you can walk through prehistoric-looking ferns with an aboriginal guide in the lush Daintree Rainforest, spot crocs from a cruise boat, and ride the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway that takes you over the tree canopy. Then board a catamaran bound for a floating platform on the unspoiled Outer Barrier Reef for a chance to snorkel or ride in a semi-submersible or glass-bottom boat, viewing vibrant coral, sea turtles and tropical fish of every colour.
Imaginative tour options mean that you could even try scuba diving, explore the area with a marine biologist, or enjoy a scenic helicopter ride above the reef.
In fact, most travel dreams are possible when you take a fantastic, flexible escorted tour to experience the very best that wonderful Australia has to offer.