Outback – Beyond the Black Stump
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Explore the rugged beauty of Outback New South Wales – meet & stay with the locals in the station homesteads.
Highlights: Small groups, personalised service, opportunity to experience life in the Outback and meet the locals, farmstays on working stations, Blue Mountains, Outback Australia, Aboriginal culture and history, Hunter Valley, Kangaroos, wallabies, dingos, koalas, prolific species of birds, reptiles, sandstone escarpments, granite cliffs.
DAY 1: Sydney – Coolah (L, D)
- Visit Denman and Cassilis on the way to Coolah Tops, a recent National Park
- Breathtaking forests, spellbinding waterfalls and views across the fertile Liverpool Plains
- Spend a night relaxing at Baladonga, a 4500 acre sheep and cattle property where kangaroos, wallabies and emus roam freely on the farm
- An evening with the farm owners to learn about the country life
DAY 2: Coolah – Coonamble (B, L, D)
- Day 2 & 3 provide a great chance to see Australian Wildlife including kangaroos, koalas and wallabies
- Experience the rugged beauty of one of New South Wales’s favourite parks, Warrumbungle National Park
- Visit the Siding Spring Observatory
- Travel unsealed roads to Coonamble, where we stay at Thurn, a working cattle station – again we stay an evening with our hosts
DAY 3: Coonamble – Mudgee (B, L, D)
- Depart to Macquarie Marshes where prolific birdlife will delight our guests
- Continue south east, travelling through Warren, Gilgandra and a stop at Dunedoo
- Enjoy tasting some of the Mudgee regions premium wines before arriving at our overnight destination at a boutique hotel
DAY 4: Mudgee – Sydney (B, L)
- Cross the famous Blue Mountains, lunch at the historic Imperial Hotel, then pause at spectacular Govett’s Leap
- Descending the Blue Mountains we drive deep into National Park to Euroka Clearing where we see kangaroos in the wild while we enjoy a glass of champagne to toast our Outback adventure
- Arrive back in Sydney at about 6:00pm
Tour Code: A200
Departures: Daily from 7.00am (subject to accommodation)
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