The Highlights of Australia Honeymoon Itinerary

Crowned "The World's Most Liveable City" for seven years in a row, friendly Melbourne is the perfect place to begin your Australian honeymoon.

We take care of your transfer from the airport and then this compact, diverse metropolis is begging to be explored after settling into your comfortable accommodation. There are hidden charms around every corner, beautiful Botanic Gardens and chic city squares where you can soak up the atmosphere to your heart's content.

Here are some of our favourite things to do in Melbourne:

• Lose yourself in cobbled laneways lined with tempting coffee shops, chic boutiques and cozy bars.
• Admire the always-evolving street art covering every inch of Hosier Lane
• Take a tram to St Kilda beach's historic esplanade and drop into Acland St's irresistible cake shops.
• Make a sporting pilgrimage to the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground
• Grab a bite to eat at Queen Victoria Market - it's the largest market in the Southern Hemisphere
• Choose from a dizzying array of restaurants & eateries — you're in Australia's foodie capital.

Accommodation: Melbourne - 4 Nights

Tantalise your taste buds in Victoria’s Gourmet Wonderland. While the Yarra Valley is famous worldwide for its wine, that’s only part of the story in this culinary paradise. Our tour offers a perfect blend of the region’s finest wines and gourmet produce. Delight in expertly crafted cheeses, chocolates, wines, gins, and more on this Yarra Valley day tour in a food lover's haven!

Sample fines wines at Balgownie Estate - one of the great wineries of the Yarra Valley. Enjoy a G&T tasting at Four Pillars Gin Distillery and sample the valley’s freshest cheeses at the Coldstream Dairy. You will also indulge in a delicious restaurant lunch with wine at Rochford Wines and savor the sweet treats at Yarra Valley Chocolaterie.

A full day for you to enjoy the city at your leisure. Here are some of our favourite things to do in Melbourne:

• Hop on the iconic vintage City Circle Tram for a ride around Melbourne's most famous streets.
• Take a tram to St Kilda beach's historic esplanade and drop in to Acland St's irresistible cake shops.
• Hire bikes, grab a picnic and cycle along the banks of the scenic Yarra River.
• Get a bird’s eye view of the city from the southern hemisphere’s highest viewing platform at Eureka Tower.
• Enjoy a bite to eat at Queen Victoria Market - it's the largest market in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Choose from a dizzying array of restaurants & eateries — you're in Australia's foodie capital!
• Take a guided walk to explore Melbourne's lanes and arcades

Departing Melbourne at around midday, journey to the city’s most colourful attraction – the iconic Brighton Beach bathing boxes – before continuing through Melbourne’s bayside suburbs on the way to Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park. Here, enjoy a guided wildlife walk where you have the opportunity to meet and hand-feed many species of native Australian animals.

Continuing on to Phillip Island, a visit to Point Grant and The Nobbies lets you enjoy views over Westernport Bay and Bass Strait, including Seal Rocks, home to Australia’s largest population of fur seals.

And then it’s onwards to the main event, where just after dark every night the world’s smallest penguins waddle ashore after spending the day fishing out at sea. You’ll be truly enchanted as the stars of the show emerge from the surf and pass right before your eyes on their journey back to their homes. Your guide will ensure you are able to get the very best vantage point to enjoy the Penguin Parade.

Bid farewell to the city and fly to Australia's Red Centre for your first glimpse of magnificent Ayers Rock, or Uluru as it is also known.

Ayers Rock stands 348 metres above the ground and reaches over 700 metres underground. Uluru is also home to the World Heritage listed Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, which is of extreme importance to the local Aboriginal people.

Settle into your hotel at Ayers Rock Resort and prepare to witness the most epic sunset you can imagine over Uluru: it's a moment you will remember forever.

Accommodation: Ayers Rock - 3 Nights

Departing the resort, the tour will travel through the landscapes to the entrance of the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park.  From this point, it is only a matter of minutes before the spectra of Uluru rises from the sand dunes to demonstrate its enormity and presence in this country.

Our first step allows you a photographic opportunity of this amazing icon.  With Uluru looming in front of you, your journey toward the base.  Walk with your guide to a place of tranquility. The closer you wander the more you surrender to the realisation of the sheer size of this monolith.

As you drive around the base, your guide will take you to the entrance of Mutitjulu Waterhole, a semi-permanent watercourse nestled in the contours of Uluru. Here you will learn the Creation stories of Liru (poisonous snake) and Kuniya (python) as well as a number of other stories associated with other prominent Tjukurpa (Dreaming) stories. You will see the rock art of the ancients and learn how Uluru was, and still is, a significant location for teaching young Aboriginal people. We then adjourn to the new Talinguru Nyakunytjaku viewing area where you will observe an uninterrupted view of Uluru with Kata Tjuta in the background.

This is Uluru, the red heart of the Australian continent. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has a rich connection to Australia's indigenous culture in the past. Just 16 km away is the Kata Tjuta, another geographical wonder, made up of 36 conglomerate rock domes that have existed for 500 million years. The entirety of Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park stretches around 1,300 square kilometers of arid land ecosystems that are home to vast species of flora and fauna only found in dry settings.

A Selection of Options Available

Fly from Ayers Rock to Cairns

With its close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest, Cairns is a haven of scuba diving, snorkelling, reef cruises, fishing, rainforest walks, native bird and wildlife watching.

Sun-seekers and locals alike flock to Cairns Esplanade's swimming lagoon on the city’s foreshore. There are picnic areas, birdwatching viewpoints, free barbecues and fitness equipment along the boardwalk, perfect for unwinding after your flight.

Accommodation: Cairns - 4 Nights

Explore the stunning canopy of the oldest living rainforest on the planet: the Daintree Rainforest.

Daintree & Cape Tribulation by 4WD

Drive north along the scenic Captain Cook Highway, admiring the Azure waters of the Coral Sea. After Morning Tea, enjoy a guided cruise on the Daintree River: this is nature at its best!

Your experienced guide will take you on a wonderful journey through ancient Daintree rainforest with ample time for photos and questions while you try to spot the rare and unique Southern Cassowary.

After a thrilling 4WD ride to pristine Emmagen Creek, take a refreshing swim in the crystal clear waters of this secret Jewel in the Rainforest. Stroll along the Cape Tribulation Beach to a platform overlooking the mountains and coast where the 'Rainforest meets the Reef'.

Finally, you will cross the Daintree River by cable ferry and begin your homeward journey.

Enjoy a full day cruise to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the tropical island paradise of Green Island.

Great Barrier Reef: Full Day Cruise

Climb aboard the Ocean Free - a 16.5 metre sailing schooner - and set sail for Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef, where the beautiful coral gardens of Pinnacle Reef are begging to be explored.

A delicious smorgasbord lunch is served on board the boat to fuel you up for your adventures, and how you choose to spend your day is entirely up to you! Wander the rainforest tracks, snorkel or scuba the pristine waters, or relax on the beach and sip cocktails from the island bar. This is a fantastic day tour experience at the heart of one of the great natural wonders of the world.

Spend an enchanted evening in Cairns with a sunset cruise along the scenic Trinity Inlet. Sip a glass of sparkling wine and enjoy nibbles as city lights come on and the fading sun casts a colorful glow across the water, mangrove swamps and mountain ranges. Extend your night with an optional 3-course waterfront dinner at Dundee’s Restaurant — a local favorite where you can enjoy a bounty of fresh seafood, pasta, salads and grilled meats.

• Cairns sunset cruise along Trinity Inlet
• View the mangroves, mountains and waterways surrounding Cairns
• Great photo opportunities
• Upgrade to include a 3-course dinner at a waterfront restaurants

Brisbane is Queensland's capital city with subtropical weather all year round and a wealth of cultural attractions, world-class arts, and impressive natural wonders. 

After checking in at your centrally located accommodation the rest of the day is free to relax and explore the city.  You might like to stroll along the footpath by the side of the meandering river till you reach the sparkling man-made lagoon for a refreshing swim or a delicious dinner at trendy South Bank.

Accommodation: Brisbane - 3 Nights

A wildlife extravaganza awaits you today at Australia Zoo, made famous by the late Steve Irwin, the ‘Crocodile Hunter’. Witness the renowned Crocoseum Wildlife Warrior show and enjoy lunch before meeting staff at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital for a private tour of this leading-edge treatment facility.

Australia Zoo is one of the most highly-regarded wildlife facilities in all of Australia, featuring a huge range of animals, shows and many exhibits that each highlight a different aspect of the animal kingdom, such as the Crocoseum where you'll be able to see crocodiles jumping to be fed, the open-range Africa exhibit, the Tiger Temple and much more  - CRIKEY!

Highlights

• The Crocoseum - Check out our resident Masters of Ceremonies doing their thing during the wildlife shows, as well as a whole host of crazy and hilarious characters
• Tiger Temple - Home to our majestic Sumatrans and Bengal tigers, the Tiger Temple provides an amazing opportunity for you to get up-close with these magnificent big cats
• Africa - Crikey! It's as wild as life gets at Australia Zoo's new open range exhibit - Africa. Stage one is now open and you can see the only multi-species African exhibit in Queensland
• Get up close and personal to our amazing animals and experience all the wildlife action at our daily shows. See our cheeky otters and live the WILD life in the Crocoseum. You can watch gorgeous tigers play and so much more
• Witness the wonderful team of vets as they treat and rehabilitate injured, sick or orphaned wildlife at Wildlife Hospital, one of the largest and busiest wildlife hospitals in the world

This popular Brisbane river cruise has been taking locals and visitors to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary for over 70 years and is a “must do” experience while in Brisbane. The Koala and River Cruise is the perfect way to get up close and personal with Australia’s cuddliest creatures while enjoying the sights and sounds of Brisbane’s most attractive waterfront suburbs, only accessible by boat.

Spend 3 hours exploring Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary where you can see over 130 koalas, hand-feed kangaroos, and emus, experience an authentic Australian sheepdog show, spy on a shy platypus swimming, see the amazing birds of prey.

Fly to Sydney and after you check in to your hotel, enjoy some free time to discover Sydney in-depth, at your own pace.

Take a ferry to Manly for a laid-back beach day, or cruise to Taronga Zoo, where both animals and visitors alike can enjoy jaw-dropping harbour views. Adventurers can climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge or tackle the Bondi to Bronte walking trail along the rugged sandstone cliffs.

Foodies will love visiting the Sydney Fish Market, where you can pile your plate high with freshly caught & cooked seafood and take your haul outside to eat on the pier.

Accommodation: Sydney - 3 Nights

Discover the ultimate Blue Mountains day tour from Sydney, delving into this World Heritage-listed wonderland. Escape the crowds as we explore secluded lookouts, rainforest trails, and pristine valleys, offering an insider's perspective.

Witness iconic landmarks like the Three Sisters while enjoying peaceful bushwalks away from tourist hotspots.

Lunch in quaint mountain villages before a hands-on wildlife encounter at Featherdale Wildlife Park, where you can feed kangaroos and snap a photo with a koala. Return to Sydney in luxury, concluding a memorable day immersed in Australia's natural beauty.

Enjoy a great Sydney Hot Air Ballooning experience in the popular Camden region just outside Sydney, NSW for an unforgettable day in the air! Sitting in the heart of the MacArthur region of NSW, the Camden Valley offers a cavalcade of beautiful scenery far below that can only be truly appreciated from high above.

Camden balloon flights take place each weekend, as well as selected days during the week, over the beautiful & historic Macarthur region, a hidden gem just 70 minutes from the Sydney city centre. Our Hot Air Ballooning flights over Camden are approximately one hour in duration and finish with a delightful Celebration Breakfast at Camden Valley Inn following the flight.

Your Australia adventure ends here in Sydney today, and we know you will leave with magical memories of a truly exceptional Australian experience as you board your onward flight.