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Specialist team of two highly experienced Travel Director and Driver Guide

Meals

• 12 Full Breakfasts • 1 Lunch • 1 Be My Guest Lunch • 2 Dinners with Wine • 1 Highlight Dinner • 1 Farewell Dinner

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Melbourne Laneways Walking Tour Uluru Sunset Experience with Sparkling wine Uluru Exclusive Field of Light Sunrise Uluru Sunrise and guided Uluru walk Kata Tjuta guided walk Aboriginal Dot Art Painting Experience Great Barrier Reef Cruise Sydney Harbour Cruise Sydney Opera House Locally Guided Tour Local Specialists (Guides) Centrally located premium hotels

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• Centrally located premium hotels

Hygieneprotocol

As of December 1st 2021, you must be fully vaccinated to travel with us. Your final vaccine dose must have been administered a minimum of 15 days prior to the start of the trip. This is your second dose of Pfizer, Moderna, or Astra Zeneca, or single dose of Johnson & Johnson. You must be able to show documented proof of vaccination on trip. Your CDC card is sufficient (we recommend saving a picture on your smart phone as a backup option), but please be aware that certain destinations may require you to fill out additional forms online.

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Day 1 Day 1: Welcome To Melbourne
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Welcome To Melbourne

Is there such a thing as too much time in Melbourne? Arrive early before meeting your fellow adventure-seekers over a beverage or two.
Day 2 Day 2: Melbourne Sightseeing And Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Melbourne Sightseeing And Free Time

Melbourne is known for its cool cafés – we recommend grabbing a coffee to fuel you through a walking tour exploring the city’s most eye-popping laneways. This afternoon, you decide. Perhaps a nature-based sojourn to Phillip Island to see penguins waddle from the ocean to the sand? We wouldn’t blame you for lingering and taking a deep dive into Melbourne’s culinary offerings. Ask us for tips on the hottest spots to drink and dine.
Day 3 Day 3: Melbourne Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Melbourne Free Time

If you’re still getting your Melbourne bearings, linger in town to explore boutiques, galleries, and eclectic suburbs. But if it’s time to venture further afield, you might want to sign up to discover the Great Ocean Road, a stretch of coastline that deserves its reputation as one of the most scenic touring routes in the world. Wherever you wander, be sure to take in a show at one of the city’s glorious theatres. We can assist with tickets.
Day 4 Day 4: Melbourne – Uluru
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Melbourne – Uluru

Spiritual, sacred and spectacular, the world’s largest rock monolith will give you goosebumps. In Australia’s Red Centre, Uluru has been home to the Anangu people for millennia. Their connection is palpable, as you’ll discover when you arrive at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, at sunset watching the shifting colours transform the desert with every last ray (sparkling wine essential).
Day 5 Day 5: Uluru And Kata Tjuta
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Uluru And Kata Tjuta

If there’s one thing worth getting out of bed early for, it’s sunrise over Uluru. Incredibly, the Rock’s base caves are home to First Nations art that dates back tens of thousands of years. What an honour to glimpse it. The ochres and silvery greens of the NT outback follow you to Kata Tjuta, where Walpa Gorge humbles with its soaring cliffs. Wander through the tallest domes before yet another sparkling sunset (and sparkling wine).
Day 6 Day 6: Uluru – Cairns
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Uluru – Cairns

Ok, so the other reason to get up early is to view artist Bruce Munro’s installation Field of Light at dawn – 50,000 glowing spindles of light blanketing the desert. Clamber to the top of a sand dune to marvel in the morning unfolding over this very special part of the world. An Anangu artist will explain just what makes it so spiritual over an introduction to Western Desert art, introducing totems and symbols important to the region and represented in paintings and installations. Head to your next stop in sunny Cairns.
Day 7 Day 7: Cairns Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Cairns Free Time

If you’re in the habit of getting up early now, you may wish to begin your day with an optional horizon-bending hot-air-balloon ride over the Atherton Tablelands. Prefer to stay grounded? Sign up for a guided walk through the Daintree Rainforest, or surround yourself with nature riding the Scenic Railway to Kuranda returning on the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway – perhaps with a side visit to Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures for a wetlands cruise?
Day 8 Day 8: Great Barrier Reef
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Great Barrier Reef

The world’s largest living organism, the Great Barrier Reef, never fails to dazzle. Set out on a catamaran to explore a kaleidoscope of colour: over 1,500 species of fish, 215 different birds, 3,000 molluscs, six of the world’s seven marine turtle species, and 30 species of dolphins and whales are residents. Strap on a snorkel or visit an underwater observatory and semi-submersible craft to take in the menagerie without getting your hair wet. Tonight, celebrate the end of an incredible day at dinner on Cairns’ waterfront at Salt House for regional seafood plucked straight from the ocean, highlighting fresh, local ingredients, and prepared on their custom-built Argentinian wood fired grill.
Day 9 Day 9: Cairns – Sydney
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Cairns – Sydney

Touch down in Australia’s largest city, with a harbour you could gaze at all day long. And all night. Freshen up and do just that when you join your Travel Director and travel mates on a Highlight Dinner cruise around Sydney Harbour against the backdrop of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
Day 10 Day 10: Sydney
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Sydney

Bring your stamina: today is one of innumerable highlights. Go behind the scenes at the Sydney Opera House, discovering its architectural and performance secrets. If these sails could talk. One icon to another: The world’s most famous beach beckons this morning, with your chance to pad along the sand at Bondi with Sydney’s beautiful people. From Worked up an appetite? A local Surf Life Saver will take you into the members-only Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club. Learn about this historic club and gain an understanding of the important work that is done here saving lives on this famous beach. Next, a Be My Guest lunch with views overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Day 11 Day 11: Sydney Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Sydney Free Time

The hardest decision you have to make today: explore more of Sydney, or head to the Blue Mountains, 11,400 square kilometres of World Heritage listed wilderness, a place where sandstone escarpments appear to cleave off the edge of the Earth and waterfall-cooled valleys of rainforest slip dreamily from the pages of a fairytale.
Day 12 Day 12: Sydney
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 12: Sydney

Now you’ve found your bearings in Sydney, why not linger around the harbour – perhaps it’s time to glimpse it from above on a Sydney BridgeClimb? This bird’s-eye view certainly puts things in perspective. Back at ground level, you’re in the heart of the Rocks, the city’s original colonial settlement and a place of cobbled alleys and private galleries. This evening, celebrate your holiday at a Farewell Dinner at Portside Restaurant at the Sydney Opera House. Talk about ending on a high.
Day 13 Day 13: Farewell From Sydney
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 13: Farewell From Sydney

What an epic journey, with so many destinations explored in less than two weeks. Now you just have to sort through the photos…

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13 days tour

Australian Highlights (Base, 2023/2024, 13 Days)

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Itinerary of your trip Australian Highlights (Base, 2023/2024, 13 Days)

Day 1: Welcome To Melbourne

Day 2: Melbourne Sightseeing And Free Time

Day 3: Melbourne Free Time

Day 4: Melbourne – Uluru

Day 5: Uluru And Kata Tjuta

Day 6: Uluru – Cairns

Day 7: Cairns Free Time

Day 8: Great Barrier Reef

Day 9: Cairns – Sydney

Day 10: Sydney

Day 11: Sydney Free Time

Day 12: Sydney

Day 13: Farewell From Sydney

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