The Great Australian Rail Odyssey

Visit Uluru-Kata Tjuta
Available as a Self Drive or Escorted Tour holiday
22 nights from £5,995 per person.
ID: TCL-4-228
Description
Rail travel is perhaps the most romantic and memorable way of exploring Australia, allowing you to appreciate the vast scale and grand landscapes of this extraordinary country in luxurious comfort. Australia’s iconic trains - the Ghan, the Indian Pacific and the Sunlander - cover thousands of kilometres along coastlines and through the beautiful but forbidding ‘red centre’. This superb rail tour includes specially upgraded services on all three trains, and embraces highlights of Australia’s diverse cities, with stays in Sydney, Adelaide, Cairns and Brisbane, and the opportunity to discover the natural wonders of Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef.


Package Summary
- Sydney city tour
- Sydney Harbour cruise
- Indian Pacific train
- Visit to two Barossa Valley region wineries
- The Ghan train Alice Springs orientation tour
- Uluru sunrise viewing
- Uluru sunset viewing with a glass of wine
- Kata Tjuta
- Kuranda Scenic Railway
- Tjapukai Aboriginal Park
- Quicksilver Outer Great Barrier Reef experience with lunch
- Brisbane river cruise
- Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
- Brisbane city tour
- 16 nights in hotels, 3 nights on trains and 3 in flight (accommodation as specified or similar)
- 10 Meals: 3 breakfast, 4 lunch and 3 dinner (breakfast on days 7, 11, 20, lunch on days 7, 17, 19-20 and dinner on days 6, 10 19)
Summary Itinerary
- Day 1-2 London – In Flight – Sydney
- Day 3 Sydney
- Day 4 Sydney
- Day 5 Sydney
- Days 6 Sydney, Indian Pacific
- Day 7 Indian Pacific, Adelaide
- Day 8 Barossa Valley
- Day 9 Adelaide
- Day 10 Adelaide, The Ghan
- Day 11 The Ghan, Alice Springs
- Day 12 Alice Springs, Uluru
- Day 13 Uluru, Kata Tjuta
- Day 14 Uluru, Cairns
- Day 15 Cairns
- Day 16 Kuranda
- Day 17 Great Barrier Reef
- Day 18 Cairns
- Day 19 Cairns – Brisbane
- Day 20 Brisbane
- Day 21 Brisbane
- Day 22 Brisbane – In flight
- Day 23 London
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What our travellers are saying
Expectations were to see lakes and mountains. But with National Park Traveller's help there was something to do everywhere we turned.

Utah was my favourite part. There was so much to do and it was like nothing I’ve seen before. Really liked Capitol Reef as it was much quieter and we were so close to it. Will always remember going star gazing, brilliant.

On our trip there was so much to do. We enjoyed outdoor activities and the adventurous things to do. We were nicely surprised and will be coming back for sure.

We saw all of Las Vegas and really glad we've done it. All the hotels were amazing. I will always remember driving towards Las Vegas, you're just driving for hours through dessert and it suddenly pops up out of nowhere.

Every turn held more beauty than we expected. We were humbled by the size of the surrounding peaks. The feeling of being in a cathedral never left us as we stopped in deserted spots and just gazed at our surroundings.

We saw loads of animals, bison, black and grizzly bear, elk, deer and even wolves in the distance. Waterfalls and lakes were magnificent and the trails that we walked were all so beautiful and well worth visiting.

Amazing New York highlights were a Broadway show, Central Park, Empire State building and Time Square. We visited MoMA which was amazing to see all best artwork in the world, we were just not expecting it, every room we went into there was another masterpiece. Our hotel was under a mile from the subway station and we saw how the New Yorkers live and commute.

Never been somewhere where so many people say they keep coming back. Thank you for finding me this holiday destination.

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