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South Australian Loop
Adelaide - -- Barossa Valley - -- Flinders Ranges - -- Kangaroo Island
Take in fine food and wine in the Barossa and Clare Valleys, explore the rugged Flinders Ranges and meet wildlife galore on Kangaroo Island. Taste wine made by Jesuit priests in Sevenhill, climb the huge natural amphitheatre of Wilpena Pound and visit the historic copper-mining town of Burra. Swim, surf, snorkel and bushwalk along the Fleurieu Peninsula before getting up close to penguins in Penneshaw and a colony of sea lion at Seal Rocks on Kangaroo Island. This scenic drive takes in South Australia’s most famous attractions on two smaller loops through the elegant capital of Adelaide.
AT A GLANCE
DAY ONE
> Adelaide to Barossa Valley (1 hour) ADELAIDE TO BAROSSA VALLEY class and see artisans at work in one > Barossa Valley to Quorn (3.5 hours) of the many studios. In the nearby Travel north out of Adelaide to the heritage town of Gawler, you’ll fi > Quorn to Wilpena Pound (1.5 hours) Barossa Valley’s rolling green hills stone churches, galleries and museums > Wilpena Pound to Arkaroola (8 hours) and 60 cellar doors. Visit world- as well as manicured vineyards. Taste > Arkaroola to Parachilna (6.5 hours) famous wineries such as Yalumba, strudel from Lyndoch’s German bakery, Seppelts, Penfolds and Jacob’s Creek > Parachilna to Cape Jervis (6.5 hours) visit the Barossa Wine Centre in Visitor Centre and sample quality, Tanunda and explore Kapunda, South > Cape Jervis to Kangaroo Island (45 min ferry) local produce on the Butcher, Baker, Australia’s fi copper-mining town. > KangarooIslandtoAdelaide(45minferry,1.5hours) Winemaker Trail. Take a wine master
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DAY TWO TO FIVE
BAROSSA VALLEY TO QUORN QUORN TO WILPENA POUND past Vulkathunha–Gammon Ranges National Park. You can pitch a tent or Follow the Main North Road into the Travel into Hawker past the homestead sleep in a rustic outback lodge and Clare Valley for more gourmet indulgence. remains of Kanyaka and the Aboriginal rock explore attractions such as Bunyip Taste sacramental wine made by Jesuit art of Yourambulla Caves. From Hawker Chasm and Italowie and Weetootla priests at the cellar door in Sevenhill, then it’s a short drive to the huge natural gorges. Further north is the remote and explore the restaurants, cafes and pubs amphitheatre of Wilpena Pound, at the rugged Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, of Auburn. Buy country produce from the heart of the Flinders Ranges National Park. where you can bushwalk, mountain bike, colourful markets in Sevenhill or take a You can follow a number of walking tracks tour by camel or take a scenic flight. cooking course at Thorn Park. If you want to the rim of the pound, from the climb Take a Ridgetop tour across the hilltops, to burn off some calories, walk or cycle to Mt Ohlssen Bagge to the short walk see the shimmering saltpan of Lake the 25-kilometre Riesling Trail between to Hill’s Homestead. To really appreciate Frome and stare into space from one vineyards and restaurants, green hills, Wilpena’s size and majesty, you should of the three observatories. churches and stone buildings. Make soar over on a scenic fl t. Visit Arkaroo time for the heritage town of Mintaro Rock and read the Adnyamathana people’s ARKAROOLA TO PARACHILNA and its stately Georgian mansion of story of how the pound was created in Martindale Hall. Continue on the Main the ancient art on the walls. See stunning See rock art, taste bush tucker and visit North Road to Melrose, in the foothills dawn views from Bunyeroo Valley and sacred sites with an Andnyamathana of Mount Remarkable in the southern fossils in ancient sea beds and possibly rare guide in Vulkathunha-Gammon Flinders Ranges. Climb the mountain, yellow-footed rock-wallabies at Brachina Ranges National Park. Then head out wander past the town’s historic buildings Gorge. Stay overnight in Hawker, the of the Flinders Ranges, past Copley and or travel further to Mount Remarkable tourist hub of the Flinders Ranges. Leigh Creek to the tiny railway town National Park near Wilmington. From of Parachilna. Watch the sun sink into here it’s a short drive to Quorn, home WILPENA POUND TO ARKAROOLA the saltbush plains from the famous to galleries and the historic Pichi Richi Prairie Hotel or drive to Parachilna Gorge Take in breathtaking mountain and see it light up the tall walls. railway. Stay overnight before your head views as you travel through Blinman, off on your Flinders Ranges adventure. South Australia’s highest town, and
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DAY SIX TO EIGHT
PARACHILNA TO CAPE JERVIS CAPE JERVIS TO KANGAROO ISLAND the coast, you can swim and surf from the beaches of Vivonne Bay and meet the Drive back through Hawker and stop Take in the spectacular coastline of the friendly seal lions on the beach at Seal in Magnetic Hill, where an optical Fleurieu Peninsula on the 45-minute ferry Bay. Head back to Penneshaw, stopping to illusion appears to make your car roll ride to Kangaroo Island. You’ll arrive in pick up some fresh Ligurian honey from uphill. Explore steam train history in Penneshaw, where in the evening you can Cifford’s Honey Farm on the way. Peterborough and Steamtown and watch packs and pairs of little penguins admire the heritage cottages of the old make their pilgrimage to the shore. From KANGAROO ISLAND TO ADELAIDE copper mining town of Burra. Discover nearby American Beach, you can dive mega fauna fossils on the interpretative through shipwrecks and with leafy sea From Penneshaw, take the SeaLink ferry Red Banks trail, mountain bike the dragons. Then head to Kingscote and feed back to the mainland, then take a scenic Burra Trail or experience the outback pink pelicans at Beares Point. Fish from drive along the peninsula’s south coast. landscapes from horseback. Taste apple the historic jetty at Emu Bay then swim in Bushwalk in Deep Creek Conservation Park cider at Thorogoods before heading the rock pool alongside koalas and and spot migrating whales and waddling through Adelaide to the 60-plus wineries, lorikeets at Stokes Bay. As you circuit the little penguins in Victor Harbor. Swim almond orchards and galleries of the island further west, you’ll find windswept and boogie board from Horseshoe Bay in McLaren Vale wine region on the Fleurieu and remote Cape Borda. Watch canons Port Elliot, where you can also bike ride or Peninsula. Go fishing from the jetty or being fired and read the diaries of walk the top of the cliffs. Stop in Goolwa bushwalking through nearby Deep Creek disgruntled lighthouse keepers from the and chug down the Murray River or canoe Conservation Park. You can also extend last century on a lighthouse tour. Continue past wetland birds in the Coorong’s your trip with a four day hike along the south to the Remarkable Rocks in Flinders shimmering, shallow lagoons. Head back Heysen Trail to Victor Harbor. Chase National Park and the magical through Strathalbyn and Mount Barker underground caves of Kelly Hill. Back on before arriving in Adelaide.