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| Tour
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OUTBACK,
OPALS & SILVERTON (SYDNEY-SYDNEY) |
| Booking
Code: |
2060D
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| Length: |
5
days / 4 nights          |
| Departs: |
Sydney - Saturday
(PM) |
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| Arrives: |
Sydney - Wednesday
(AM) |
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| Price: |
2060D Gross Rate - AUD $2,340 per person twin share or AUD $2,620
single.
Includes Train fares (Price subject to Train fare increase). |
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SAT |
DEPART
SYDNEY WITH INDIAN PACIFIC TRAIN FOR BROKEN |
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| Leave
Sydney this afternoon with the world famous Indian Pacific Train and
travel first through the magnificent Blue Mountains, then through
country New South Wales and the outback to Broken Hill. Your accommodation
tonight will be a First Class Cabin aboard the train. |
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SUN |
BROKEN
HILL – OUTBACK SHEEP STATION – WHITE CLIFFS |
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| You will
be collected at the Broken Hill train station upon arrival of the
Indian Pacific. Leaving Broken Hill we travel north for 120 kilometres
to a working “outback” sheep station. This family owned
property is unique as it incorporates a privately imposed and now
registered natural sanctuary for fauna and flora as well as an abundance
of Aboriginal rock art. Your guide will show you some wonderful things,
including plenty of wildlife like big red kangaroos, emus, eagles
and much more. We then look for a nice place to have lunch, before
we continue our journey on remote station roads, through ever changing
countryside, to the remote White Cliffs Opal Field. Dinner and accommodation
will be in the famous underground Motel - a very unique experience! |
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MON |
WHITE
CLIFFS – BROKEN HILL |
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| We
will spend the morning inspecting this extraordinary outback settlement.
Learn how and why the community lives underground. Visit some underground
opal galleries and perhaps purchase one of the magnificent local opal
products. Before lunch we'll see the 'Old Field' where in search for
“colour” over 50,000 holes have been dug since the 1890's.
Return to Broken Hill for dinner and a well deserved good nights rest.
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TUE |
SILVERTON
- BROKEN HILL – SYDNEY |
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| Today
we visit the 'Hollywood of the Outback', Silverton. Numerous TV-commercials
and movies such as 'A Town Like Alice', 'Mad Max II' and many more
have made Silverton a special place. Visit the galleries of the local
outback artists and see the sweeping ‘Mundi Mundi’ Plains
from where it is often possible to see the curvature of the earth.
Back to Broken Hill for lunch and an afternoon at leisure. Light supper
included at the Legion Club, before transfer to the train station
for return journey on the Indian Pacific Train to Sydney. |
WED |
ARRIVAL
INTO SYDNEY |
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| You
will arrive in Sydney at approximately 10.15AM. |