Welcome to Australia

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Considered to be Australia’s most isolated city, Perth is Western Australia’s youthful capital. Located on the shores of the Swan River, close to the ocean, Perth is famous for the sunshine and easy-going lifestyle, with cafés, restaurants, pubs, parks and endless beaches

Free day, We recommend the visit/excursion, beautiful Rottnest Island is home to some of tspectacular whitesandy beaches, secluded bays, unique wildlife like the famous Quokka and a colony of New Zealand Fur Seals

Free day, We recommend the visit/excursion, 260 km north of Perth there's Nambung National Park, a flat sandy desert dotted with hundreds of weird spires of sedimentary rock: the wonderful Pinnacles

Flight to Adelaide, car rental from Adelaide to
Despite being a big city, Adelaide is a pleasant and easy place to live, with spacious avenues and squares, ringed with parks that stay green even in the hot, dry summer. Italians make up the city’s biggest non-Anglo group, lending the city a vaguely Mediterranean air

The boats to Kangaroo Islands leave from the pier of Cape Jervis, about a one and a half hour drive into the wild Australian nature. The cruise lasts about 45 minutes. Kangaroo Island is Australia’s third-largest island after Tasmania and Melville Island. It boasts a spectacular coastline, forests, lots of wildlife, with koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, platypuses, penguins, fur seals, sea lions and occasionally southern right whales. And it’s still unspoilt, in spite of being one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations

You can start your visit to Seal Bay with a memorable walk on the beach among the sea lions (at a safe distance!). With a bit of luck, you will see some lazy koalas resting on the ancient eucalyptus trees. In the western part of the island, explore Flinders Chase National Park with a walk in search of kangaroos, wallabies, and the numerous varieties of birds; from August to November, the park is covered in wildflowers, a fantastic sight. At Cape du Couedic, around the impressive Admirals Arch cave, over 10,000 southern fur seals rest, and you can also see the curious rock formations of Remarkable Rocks, perched on the cliff above the turbulent waters of the ocean.

If the ferry is booked for the afternoon, take some time to visit the rest of the island. Transfer to Penneshaw and depart on the ferry to Cape Jervis (last ferry at 7:30 pm, but be careful of the darkness. It is dangerous to drive a regular car at night). Continue along the Southern Expressway and arrive in Adelaide late in the evening (approximately 110 km).

Flight to Alice Springs. Car rental from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock
“Alice”or “The Alice” is the unofficial capital of the Red Centre and not just your gateway to Uluru. A few attractions should not be missed: the Araluen Arts Centre with works by a famous Aboriginal artist, the Museum of Central Australia showing local fossils and meteorites, the Central Australian Aviation Museum, the Royal Flying Doctors Service Tourist Facility, with guided tours every half-hour; the out-of-town Desert Park, that with an easy 1.6 km (1-mile) trail through three reconstructed natural habitats, shows you 120 or so of the animal species that live in the desert around Alice but that you won’t spot too easily in the wild, including kangaroos, but especially small marsupials like the rare bilby, reptiles like the bizarre thorny devil lizards, and birds. Don’t miss the excellent Birds of Prey show. You need at least 2 hours to see it. The centre of town occupies a compact area between the Stuart Highway and Leichhardt Terrace, along the almost perennially dry Todd River. Todd Mall, a pedestrian thoroughfare lined with cafés and galleries, bisects downtown. Get an overview of Alice’s going up Anzac Hill for a 360-degree view over the town and the MacDonnell Ranges. Take several hours to explore the many facets of this interesting grouping of attractions, all within walking distance of one another. The Museum of Central Australia mostly shows local fossils, natural history displays, and meteorites. Some impressive Aboriginal and contemporary Aussie art is on display at the Araluen Arts Centre ([tel] 08/8951 1122; www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au), the town’s performing-arts hub, which incorporates the Albert Namatjira Gallery, with works by this famous Aboriginal artist, as well as a display of the Papunya Community School Collection, a group of 14 paintings from the early 1970s. Check out the “Honey Ant Dreaming” stained-glass window in the foyer. Aviation buffs may want to browse the old radios, aircraft, and wreckage in the Central Australian Aviation Museum, which preserves the territory’s aerial history. You can buy stylish crafts, and sometimes catch artists at work, in the Central Craft gallery. You may also want to amble among the fabulous outdoor sculptures, including the 15 m (49-ft.) Yeperenye caterpillar, or among the gravestones in the cemetery, where “Afghani” camel herders (from what is now Pakistan) are buried facing Mecca.

Alice Springs / Kings Canyon (approximately 360km / 5 hours). A landscape dominated by the brick red of the earth, the yellow of spinifex bushes, and the blue of the sky. For those with a 4x4 and a spirit of adventure, depart towards Kings Canyon following the Larapinta Drive, through the West Mac Donnell Ranges. After passing the historic town of Hermannsburg, home to an Aboriginal community, you will reach the Mereenie Loop Road, an unpaved road that can only be traveled with a 4x4. This road is used by Aboriginal people and experienced bushmen to reach Kings Canyon more quickly. Arrive at Kings Canyon before sunset and don't miss the magic of the evening colors on the Canyon by taking the shortest route inside it, leaving the longer and more challenging one for the following morning. Note: in case of closure of the Mereenie Loop Road or if you have a conventional rental car, you will need to return to the Stuart Highway and turn onto the Lasseters Highway to reach Kings Canyon following the Luritja Road (approximately 470km / 5 hours). Kings Canyon, in Watarrka National Park, is an area of cultural importance for Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years. The site doesn't attract the crowds like Uluru/Ayers Rock, but those who make it here will take home equally unforgettable memories. For the "Rim Walk," you climb the side of the cliff along steps carved into the rock (in about half an hour); once at the top, you proceed through a maze of limestone boulders called "The Lost City," beyond a bridge that leads to a group of springs surrounded by ferns ("The Garden of Eden"), and then descend on the other side among more boulders. Along the way, there are splendid panoramic viewpoints. If you visit the park in the southern winter, don't leave too early because the sun doesn't illuminate the canyon walls until mid-morning. In total, it's a 6 km hike that takes about 3-4 hours round trip with some effort. The Rim Walk should be avoided in summer (between September and May) because it gets too hot. Alternatively, you can follow the trail at the bottom of the canyon (2.6 km) in the dry bed of Kings Creek.

Driving from Alice Springs, it takes over five hours to get to Watarrka via the Lasseter Highway and Luritja Road Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park includes Uluru and Kata Tjuta (once respectively known as Ayers Rock and the Olgas), a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Uluru/Ayers Rock is arguably one of the world's natural wonders; Kata Tjuta is just as magical, a groupof rounded domes divided by narrow valleys

Flight to Sydney. The quintessential Aussie city, Sydney with its surroundings is truly a world in itself and the only city in Australia to show its two hundred years of European history in the old stone walls of The Rocks. A unique city that lives beyond its sparkling harbour and beaches, and shows its true soul in the diverse neighbourhoods, with a sophisticated cosmopolitan population, but also the largest Aboriginal community of any Australian city

Free day Free day, discovering this beautiful city. The Rocks, the Opera House, Darling Harbour, the Harbour Bridge, a cruise on the bay or a ferry to Manly, one of the city's most famous beaches.

Free day We recommend the visit/excursion

Flight to Cairns. Don't believe the hype, or else Cairns will disappoint you. The reason you are in Cairns is not so much what you can see in the city, but what you can do from there: Cairns is the perfect base to visit the Atherton Tablelands, the Daintree - the world’s oldest surviving stretch of tropical rainforest - and of course the world famous Great Barrier Reef and islands

Free day, We recommend the visit/excursion.

Free day, We recommend the visit/excursion,

Flight to la prossima destinazione o rientro.