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FLINDERS RANGES SPECTACULAR (BROKEN HILL-BROKEN HILL) | |
| Booking Code: | N/A - Book Now | |
| Length: | 9
days / 8 nights  |
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| Departs: | Leaves Broken Hill Monday: 5 & 19 September, 10 October | |
| Arrives: | Broken Hill - Monday | |
| Price: |
Standard Accommodation AUD $1,925 per person twin share or $2,155
single. Royal Exchange Hotel AUD $2,130 per person twin share or $2,705 single. |
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MON |
ARRIVAL IN BROKEN HILL | |
| Depart Sydney at 6.20am on board the Countrylink Explorer train. On arrival into the Broken Hill Train Station at 7.10pm you will of course be met by your host, Broken Hill's Outback Tours, and transferred to your accommodation. | ||
TUE |
AROUND 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 is at JJ's Restaurant in the Legion Club. | ||
WED |
SILVERTON & MUNDI-MUNDI PLAINS | |
| Heading off for a morning tour to Silverton and the spectacular Mundi-Mundi plains. Silverton is renowned for it’s art galleries and ghost town appeal. Nick named the “Hollywood of the Outback”, many movies such as MAD MAX II and A Town Like Alice have been filmed here. Return to Broken Hill for lunch and a free afternoon. Dinner is also included today. | ||
THU |
ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE & PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT | |
| 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. | ||
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, 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 & BUSH PLAINS | |
| 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 |
LOCAL TRANSFERS | |
| This morning you're collected from your accommodation and transferred to meet the train for your journey home. | ||
