| Tour Summary | ||
| Tour
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FLINDERS RANGES SPECTACULAR (MELBOURNE-BROKEN HILL) | |
| Booking Code: | N/A - Book Now | |
| Length: | 9
days / 8 nights  |
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| Departs: | Leaves Melbourne Tuesday Morning September 6,20 & October 11 | |
| Arrives: | Broken Hill - Wednesday | |
| Price: |
Standard Accommodation from AUD $2,035 per person twin share or $2,265
single. Royal Exchange Hotel AUD $2,240 per person twin share or $2,715 single. |
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| Tour
Details |
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TUE |
ARRIVAL IN BROKEN HILL | |
| Leave Spencer Street Station by V/Line train at 9:35am and arrive in Bendigo 11:40am. Change service to the V/Line coach, leaving at 12:05pm, arriving in Mildura 6:00pm. (Make your way to your accommodation which will be pre-booked by us. Details provided at time of booking.) | ||
WED |
AROUND BROKEN HILL |    |
| At 8.30am you will be collected at the reception of your accommodation for a drive to Broken Hill where you will be transferred to your accommodation, before lunch at the Legion Club. The afternoon is free to relax and a nice dinner is included at the friendly Legion Club. | ||
THU |
ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE & PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT | |
| This morning it’s off to the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Photographic Recollections Exhibit this morning with lunch at MacGregor’s Café at the Line of Lode Miners Memorial. After lunch we enjoy some time at the Thankakali Aboriginal Art Centre, if time permits we may visit another gallery of local interest. Dinner at JJ's Restaurant in the Legion Club. | ||
FRI |
YUNTA, WAUKARINGA RUINS & ERUDINA STATION | |
| Today
we head off to the Flinders Ranges via The Barrier Highway to Yunta.
Making our way through vast open salt bush plains we arrive at Erudina
Station for lunch. Erudina is a working Outback Sheep and Cattle Station
and you’ll get the chance to meet the owners during lunch. It
is a short run after lunch to the Wilpena Pound Resort through Martins Well Station. On arrival at Wilpena there will be time in the afternoon to relax at the resort or to take a walk and explore “The Pound” before dinner. |
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SAT |
FLINDERS RANGES SCENARY | |
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full day of Flinders Ranges scenery awaits us. First we make our way
to Blinman via the Casneaux Tree and Stokes Hill Lookout, then morning
tea at the Great Walls of China. Blinman is the highest township in
the Flinders and here we have time to stretch the legs and have a
look around the old Blinman Copper Mine ruins and a general look around
the town. We then drive down through Glass Gorge for lunch at the
famous Prairie Hotel at the “Old Ghan Township” of Parachilna.
After lunch we head to Brachina Gorge and then the Bunyeroo Valley, these are some of the most spectacular landscapes the Flinders Ranges have to offer. Returning to Wilpena Pound once again. |
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SUN |
WILPENA POUND, OLD WILPENA HOMESTEAD, MORALANA SCENIC DRIVE | |
| This amazing landscape will be revealed from the air today when we take a scenic joy flight over “Wilpena Pound”. There is time before lunch to take a walk around the Old Wilpena Homestead and Woolshed Area and the Information Centre before a BBQ lunch at the resort. After lunch we head through the Moralana Scenic Drive and make our way to Hawker. We overnight here at the Outback Motel. Dinner will be served by the friendly staff in the dining room of the Outback Motel. | ||
MON |
BROKEN HILL, EAST WHYDOWN STATION | |
| Returning to Broken Hill we again head out into isolated sheep grazing areas reaching the remote East Whydown Station for lunch, enjoying a look around the woolshed. After lunch here we make our way through the Barrier Ranges and on into Broken Hill. On arrival in Broken Hill you will be transferred to your accommodation. Dinner is at JJ's Restaurant at the Legion Club. | ||
TUE |
EXPLORING BROKEN HILL | |
| A full day today, exploring Broken Hill, the “Silver City”. Starting with a visit to the School of the Air followed by a city sights tour and then on to Whites Mining and Mineral Art Museum before lunch. In the afternoon we go to the Pro Hart gallery and the International Sculpture Symposium. Dinner included. | ||
WED |
BROKEN HILL - MILDURA | |
| Today you have time to relax until 2:30pm when it will be time to say goodbye, as you will be transferred to Mildura. Lunch, dinner and overnight are of course included. | ||
THU |
MILDURA-BENDIGO-MELBOURNE | |
| Make your way to the V/Line terminal and board the V/Line Coach at 9am. After a short stop in Bendigo change service at 3:40pm to arrive back in Melbourne by train at 5:30pm. | ||
