City and Outback

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Highlights

Destinations
Adelaide, Flinders Ranges

Your Itinerary Includes

6 nights Adelaide
Kangaroo Island Adventure
• Aboriginal Cultural Experience
Barossa Valley tour
3 night Flinders Ranges Experience including:
- 1 night Wilpena Pound
- 1 night Arkaroola
- 1 night Blinman
6 breakfasts 5 lunches

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Day-By-Day Itinerary

This itinerary can be fully customized; to tailor this package to your specific requirements please call one of our travel specialists at 1-800-22-SWAIN.

Day 1 Fly USA to Adelaide

Day 2 Cross The International Dateline

Day 3 Arrive Adelaide
On arrival into Adelaide you will be met and transferred by private vehicle to your hotel.

Known as Australia’s Festival City, Adelaide lives up to its legacy. The awesome Adelaide Festival of the Arts, one of the city’s 400 events, is a 17-day buffet of ballads and bands, drama and dance and features exclusive Australian and international performances. Coinciding with the Festival of Arts, Adelaide welcomes the weird and wonderful at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the second-largest independent arts festival in the world.

Day 4 Kangaroo Island Adventure
Fly to Kangaroo Island where you are met by a naturalist guide. Tour in style with a small group in a 4WD air conditioned vehicle, starting the tour at Cygnet River and Lathami Conservation Park. Enjoy a delicious seafood BBQ lunch with local wine. Walk with your guide amongst an Australian Sea-lion colony at Seal Bay Conservation Park. This afternoon, visit Gantheaume Conservation Park, including D'Estres Bay where ospreys nest and kangaroos come out to feed late in the afternoon. From here, transfer to the airport for your return flight to Adelaide.

Lunch is included today, as well as National Parks and Wildlife Service admission fees and round trip airfare from Adelaide.

Day 5 Aboriginal Cultural Experience
Join your Aboriginal Tour Guide on a trip around Adelaide for an enjoyable and informative tour. Learn about the local Adelaide area and the social history of early Aboriginal life. Explore cultural environments, taste native bush-foods, learn about Australian animals and have hands on experiences.

Start the day with a leisurely stroll around the Botanic Gardens to learn about Aboriginal bush foods and plant uses. Discover traditional duck hunting techniques, various food gathering practices and where to find bush medicines. Enjoy the great tastes of the Australian outback and sample some native bush food products for morning tea within the beautiful surrounds of the Botanic Gardens.

We then take a short walk to see the Aboriginal Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum. The Gallery showcases the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal artefacts and archival material in the world with over 3,000 items on display in an accessible, interactive setting.

Next, we head to Adelaide's East End - Rundle Street East is Adelaide's Cosmopolitan centre and a part of the historic East of Adelaide. It's full of cafes, hotels, restaurants and small interesting shops – lunch is included here, though drinks are at your own expense today. After lunch we take a short walk to Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute for a walk through the Aboriginal art gallery. Enjoy a didgeridoo demonstration and visit the retail shop with a large range of Aboriginal artefacts, artwork, books and gifts.

Day 6 Barossa Valley tour
The Barossa Valley with its Bavarian villages, baroque Italienate Chateaux and stunning vineyard scenery gives a unique mix of Europe in Australia. Breathe in the beauty of the Adelaide Hills in the leafy greenness of the quaint yet charming villages, so close yet so removed from the city bustle of Adelaide.

Day 7 Flinders Ranges Experience – Day 1
This 4WD adventure starts by heading north through historic Mintaro and into the Clare Valley, an area filled with vineyards and quaint villages. Continue to the border of the Outback and the start of the Flinders Ranges, with its majestic gorges gum trees and plenty of wildlife. The first night is spent at Wilpena Pound Resort, an ideal base for exploring the Southern region of the Flinders Ranges.

Day 8 Flinders Ranges Experience – Day 2
The second day we travel through the heart of the Flinders Rangers, traversing hills and gorges as we drive through the wildlife wonderland. The destination is Arkaroola Resort at the northen end of the Ranges – some of the oldest landscape on earth. Arkaroola is known for its 4WD tracks, some of which we will explore.

Day 9 Flinders Ranges Experience – Day 3
On day three we start with the 'Ridgetop Tour', providing some breathtaking views, before heading west through Aboriginal communities. We spend our third night at an Outback Pub!

Day 10 Flinders Ranges Experience – Day 4
The fourth day we head toward civilization. We will pass though several historic towns along the Western Ranges, before reaching the coast and journeying through some of the ports and villages. The richness of the pastoral land as you near Adelaide is in stark contrast to the arid outback just visited.

Your four day adventure includes 4 full days of small group 4WD touring, all lunches, 3 nights B&B accommodation and the Arkaroola Ridgetop Tour. Luggage is restricted to one overnight-style bag per person.

Day 11 At leisure, Adelaide
Considering Adelaide’s festive atmosphere, the city’s civility might come as a surprise. Cottages and guest houses sprinkle the surrounding Adelaide Hills, while grassy parks with ornate fountains cozy up to stunning cathedrals and swanky cafes.

Day 12 Fly Adelaide to USA (1 stop)
Transfer by private vehicle to the airport for your departure flights.

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Hotels

For more information about the hotels visited in this itinerary please click the hotel name below.

City	Standard	Superior	Deluxe	Luxury

Adelaide	-	Mercure Grosvenor	Hilton	-

Wilpena Pound	-	Wilpena Pound Resort	Wilpena Pound Resort	-

Arkaroola	-	Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary	Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary	-

Blinman	-	Blinman Hotel	Blinman Hotel	-

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Pricing

To determine pricing for your tour select the appropriate travel season and desired accommodation level from the table below.

	Standard	Superior	Deluxe	Luxury
Reference #	-	SWSP13322	SWSP13399	-

4/1/10-3/31/11	-	$3795	$4385	-


Single Supplement

4/1/10-3/31/11	-	$975	$1310	-

*Please note minimum two travelers required for Flinders Ranges component of the itinerary to operate.

Add International Airfare

Routing: LAX-ADL-LAX

4/1-6/8/10				$995

6/9/10-7/23/10				$1195

7/24/10-9/21/10				$995

9/22/10-12/6/10				$1295

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Terms & Conditions

*Prices are per person/twin share in USD and exclude international airfare. Based on travel between 4/1/10-3/31/11. Blackout dates and/or surcharges apply for travel 12/20/10-1/6/11. If adding international air as listed above, US and Foreign Govt. taxes and fees of up to $110, Passenger Facility Charges of up to $18 and the September 11th Security Fee of up to $10 are additional. Space is limited and all tickets must be issued no later than 5/13/10. Flights, hotels and tours remain subject to availability. Prices remain subject to change without notice. Conditions apply. CST2012413-20

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