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Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, is a small elegant city in a park. Set beside the Torrens River between the Adelaide Hills and the Gulf of St Vincent, it is probably Australia's best-preserved capital city. Designed by Colonel William Light in 1836, the city centre is laid out on a square mile grid of wide streets with gracious colonial architecture surrounded by 930 hectares of parklands.

All the inner city highlights are within easy walking distance and it's almost impossible to get lost.

The Mediterranean climate encourages a relaxed and indulgent lifestyle. This is a city of pubs, cafes, restaurants, fine, fresh food and wine.

With famous wines, a feast of festivals, a lively heritage, and only an hour's drive north of Adelaide, the Barossa Valley is an ideal destination for a day trip, or better still a few days of pure indulgence.

The Barossa Valley is one of the world's greatest wine producing areas. Twenty kilometres wide and about thirty kilometres long, it has a rich European culture with German and English-style villages, churches and chateau.

The region has over 50 wineries ranging from some of Australia's largest wine companies through to smaller individual winemakers. Many offer wine tastings at their cellar doors, and most are open seven days per week.

Half Day Adelaide Discovery in the Hills

Tour Code:	HDADE
Pick-Up:	City Hotels
Returns:	12.00pm
Departing:	8.30am

Tour the most understated of Australia's state capitals. Adelaide is a charming, medium-sized city with a contemporary edge. It has a dry, Mediterranean climate, which ensures the greenery of the parks and gardens year round and makes the many outdoor restaurants and sidewalk cafes very tempting. We will show you the highlights of the city and Adelaide Hills on this half day tour. Departing the city head out into the Adelaide Hills and enter the town of Hahndorf. Settled in 1839 by Prussian and East German immigrants, Hahndorf is Australia's oldest surviving German settlement. email us for more details

Barossa Valley Experience

Tour Code:	BVE
Pick-Up:	City Hotels
Returns:	5.00pm
Departing:	8.00am

There are many wine tasting regions in Australia but you will find this area is especially unique. The combination of a rich European heritage and the fresh vitality of Australia is embodied in the lifestyle of the Barossa. The peaceful rural setting hides many treasures such as magnificent old churches, wineries and historic cottages. Visit the vineyards and wineries that make this area so popular and famous around the world. email us for more details

The island's isolation and limited development has ensured an abundance of wildlife, seldom found elsewhere, and living in a protected natural environment. Here you can:

• Take an expert guided nature tour
• Meet some of the locals - dolphins, sea lions, penguins, wallabies, goannas, koalas, and of course kangaroos.
• Go scuba diving among walls of coral - you might even come face to face with the elusive leafy sea dragon
• Stay overnight in a remote lighthouse keepers cottage.

Island Life
Get an introduction to Island life - where things take time. Where drivers wave as they go by - or even stop for a chat. Have a cuppa with some home-made cakes before taking a walk down a country track through tall Eucalyptus trees where koalas snooze overhead, or perhaps wake briefly for a feed. Travel through some of the Island’s best farming country to the North Coast and Lathami Conservation Park.

Walk quietly through the bush with your guide - what makes that noise, who’s tracks are those?? Look for wallabies which are almost extinct on the mainland, and a kangaroo found only on Kangaroo Island.

Break for lunch and enjoy a delicious meal featuring local seafood, fresh salads and fine South Australian wines at a private bush location. At Seal Bay Conservation Park walk with your guide among Australian sealions on a beautiful sandy beach. Watch pups nursing, or playing in the surf, see old bulls bearing the scars of territorial disputes and learn about their unique breeding biology. The remainder of the afternoon is spent exploring more of the south east region of the Island with destinations and experiences chosen to reflect seasonal opportunities. email us for more details

Flinders Chase Focus
Flinders Chase National Park - a vast wilderness covering the entire west end of the Island, is home to kangaroos, wallabies, possums, goannas, echidnas, koalas, platypus and many birds including rare Cape Barren Geese. Visit Rocky River, site of an impressive visitor centre interpreting many facets of the park and it’s history.

At Cape du Couedic visit a fur seal colony which now number over 20,000 after being decimated by hunting in the early 1800’s. These animals can be observed at rest on the rocks or frolicking in the surf under Admirals Arch - a spectacular coastal grotto. On the headland above is a beautiful stone lighthouse where three light keepers and their families lived, maintaining a warning for ships. With no road access until 1940 life was tough - supplies came by sea only every 3 months.

Another impressive stone structure had a different architect. The Remarkable Rocks, huge natural granite sculptures, have been carved by relentless winds, rain and salt from the Southern Ocean. The end result looks like a meeting of the minds of Henri Moore and Salvador Dali!

Good wines and local produce features highly in our picnic lunch which we can enjoy out in the bush before exploring more of the Island. Depending upon the day the afternoon might include a visit to “Grassdale” in the heart of Kelly Hill Conservation Park, the secluded pools of the Rocky River or a rugged South Coast cove. email us for more details

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