Wonders of the West Coast & Kimberley Itinerary

The WA capital is colourful in more ways than one. There are alleys lined with eye-popping street art, and wildflowers blanket Kings Park. Discover the sights, then meet your fellow adventurers at a Welcome Dinner.

Included Meals: Dinner with Wine

Flights to arrive prior to 12 noon into Perth Airport

Accommodation: Perth - 1 Night

Talk about starting on a high. First stop is Yanchep National Park, where your Aboriginal guide decodes native plants and tells Dreamtime stories. Just as scene-stealing are Nambung National Park’s Pinnacles, limestone structures jutting into the sky. Arriving in Geraldton, pay homage to sailors lost during WWII at the HMAS Sydney Memorial.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation: Geraldton - 1 Night

Prepare yourself for the ‘living fossils’ at Hamelin Pool, home to the most abundant colony of stromatolites in the world. The state’s World Heritage listed Shark Bay is also characterised by Shell Beach, formed from billions of coquina bivalve shells.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Monkey Mia - 2 Nights

If you didn’t fall in love with the gin-clear waters and powdery sand of Monkey Mia last night, you will today. Meet the dolphins that turn up to the shore every morning, then spend the afternoon at leisure. Optional sunset cruise, perhaps? Or a scenic flight over the bay?

Included Meals: Breakfast

Did you know the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum played a role in the 1969 moon landing, and was instrumental in the space race? Your visit here is interactive, so prepare to try on space suits and climb aboard a supercraft simulator.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Carnarvon - 1 Night

Travel to Exmouth in the Cape Range National Park. Visit Coral Bay and cruise on Ningaloo Reef in a glass-bottomed boat. Enjoy stunning views from Vlaming Head Lighthouse. Tonight’s accommodation is just metres from the waters of beautiful Exmouth Gulf.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Exmouth - 2 Nights

Depending on the time of year, Ningaloo Reef is home to both whale sharks and humpbacks. You can opt to snorkel with both (ethically) or book a sunset cruise to see some breaching and blowing, sparkling wine in hand.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Take one last look over the Exmouth waters before continuing north to Western Australia's famous Pilbara region. Known for its rich landscape, red earth and vast mineral deposits, the region's diverse landscape will fascinate you.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Karratha - 1 Night

Karijini National Park is a place where gorges seem to cleave off the edge of the Earth, waterfalls tumble from escarpments and remote turquoise rock pools shimmer like precious gems. It took billions of years to create the geological wonders you see: the red layered cliffs, the quiet gorges and the soaring gum trees.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Karijini National Park - 1 Night

The eye-opening colours of the Pilbara region are your backdrop today – rich red earth streaked with mineral deposits. It’s sparsely populated, but you will find people in the major hub of Port Hedland. Before you leave, head to a lookout to spot migrating humpback whales and snubfin dolphins cruising along the coast, season pending.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Port Hedland - 1 Night

The reason Broome was born is because of pearls. Today, it’s just as well known for its Indian Ocean sunsets, best enjoyed from a vantage on the Cable Beach sand.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Broome - 2 Nights

Today is yours to explore. Stay in town and shop for pearls, wander the coast on the lookout for dinosaur footprints. Or simply enjoy Broome’s tropical climes, strolling along 22-kilometre Cable Beach.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Preserved for 125 million years in the reef rock at Gantheaume Point are the imprints of long-extinct dinosaurs. Remarkably, the Broome coast has become one of the most significant paleontological sites in the world. Glimpse their stomping ground before venturing toward Fitzroy Crossing.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Fitzroy - 1 Night

Visit the spectacular Mimbi Caves with an Indigenous guide and take a deep dive into First Nations culture, discovering ancient rock paintings and Dreamtime stories. Observe the limestone formations and crystal-clear freshwater pools that remain from a 350-million-year-old Devonian Great Barrier Reef. More Aboriginal history and culture awaits at the Yarliyil Arts Centre in Halls Creek.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Halls Creek - 1 Night

From here, get a taste of the Gibb River Road, before arriving to El Questro Wilderness Park, backdropped by the rusty red Cockburn Range. Hidden among the pandanus and palms are a string of slick safari-style tents.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Emma Gorge - 2 Nights

The Kimberley’s sounds follow you to Chamberlain Gorge, your boat dwarfed by its soaring escarpments. Afternoon remedy? A splash in the pool, perhaps, or a dip in the waterhole within Emma Gorge. Take your pick.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Kununurra was born through the Ord River Irrigation Scheme. It now waters crops like sugarcane, turned into lip-smacking rum at Hoochery Distillery. A sunset cruise here is something you won’t forget in a hurry.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Wine

Accommodation: Kimberley - 2 Nights

Today is one of decisions: An optional flight over (or 4WD tour of) the Bungle Bungles? Or a wander with your Travel Director through Mirima National Park. In between, explore the Waringarri Aboriginal Art Centre on a guided tour.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Witness the dramatic transformation of the landscape today as you journey to the north-east across vast pastoral leases and Aboriginal homelands into the river floodplains and grasslands of the Northern Territory’s stunning Top End. Later on, you’ll meet  Tom Curtain for an afternoon of knee-slappin’ songs and stories on a cattle station.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Be My Guest Dinner

Accommodation: Katherine - 1 Night

Nature rules at Nitmiluk National Park, where you cruise through dramatic Nitmiluk Gorge. Your northern sojourn reveals the region’s historic events, all the way to Darwin.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Farewell Dinner

Accommodation: Darwin - 1 Night

Say farewell to your fellow travellers when your holiday comes to an end this morning.

Included Meals: Breakfast

Flights to depart anytime from Darwin Airport

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