The best SA has to offer from Clare’s Autumn Festival to the ancient & town of Marree, Birdsville Track, Lake Eyre, Parachilna & Brachina Gorges, Wilpena Pound & the historic Cazneaux tree.

Graham Ross Founder of Ross Garden Tours

FLINDERS RANGES AND THE CLARE VALLEY AUTUMN FESTIVAL

17 - 25 APRIL 2021 The Flinders Ranges is some of ’s most dramatic landscapes. Journey from , through the Clare Valley for the SA Autumn Festival, and into the outback. See towering ancient cliffs, spectacular gorges, outback stations, Wilpena Pound and Lake Eyre. ITINERARY

DAY 1 SAT 17 APR two nights. Dinner included tonight. rugged scenery. See the famous Cazneaux HOME TO ADELAIDE The Marree Hotel, Marree Tree, a solitary river red gum made famous Arrive in Adelaide where you meet your by Australian photographer Harold DAY 4 TUE 20 APR Cazneaux in 1937. Dinner included. tour leader. Our destination this afternoon MARREE is the picturesque Clare Valley. Here, a Wilpena Pound Resort, Flinders Ranges patchwork of farmland seamlessly blends, Maree is a fascinating town to explore full of local history. Nearby is Kati Thanda– DAY 7 FRI 23 APR rows of vines, elegant eucalypts and WILPENA POUND natural bushland. Check into your hotel Lake Eyre, Australia’s largest salt lake, and soak in the bucolic rural setting. the best way to appreciate it’s incredible Option for a morning flight over Wilpena Welcome dinner together tonight. colours and patterns is from the air. Pound, the ranges and gorges that make Option this morning to take a scenic flight up this spectacular national park. On the Clare Country Club, Clare over the lake. Weather permitting, we’ll ground, there’s much to see today at Old DAY 2 SUN 18 APR drive a little of the famous Birdsville track. Wilpena Station one of ’s CLARE AUTUMN GARDEN FESTIVAL Dinner included. oldest and best-preserved pastoral The SA Autumn Garden Festival was South The Marree Hotel, Marree settlements. Later, head to Rawnsley Park Australia’s first gardening festival. Over 80 Station, a working sheep farm for dinner DAY 5 WED 21 APR in a woolshed. With views overlooking exhibitors are nestled under magnificent MARREE TO WILPENA POUND eucalypts in the Clare Showground. This the southern edge of Wilpena Pound, this afternoon visit the Heritage Garden, At Parachilna Gorge, giant river red gums dinner is outback Australia at it’s best! lovingly tended by owners Walter and Kay line the creek at the bottom of the rugged Wilpena Pound Resort, Flinders Ranges Duncan. The rose selection is outstanding, gorge offering a shady spot to enjoy picnic lunch. Continue along the winding road DAY 8 SAT 24 APR reflecting the passion of award-winning WILPENA POUND TO ADELAIDE author, grower and rose exhibitor Walter. out of the gorge passing dramatic scenery Dinner included tonight. changes to the historic copper mining Journey south via the charming historic town of . Head into Ikara-Flinders town of Quorn. Once an important town Clare Country Club, Clare Ranges National Park, South Australia’s at the junction of the Sydney-Perth and DAY 3 MON 19 APR largest mountain range. Check into your Adelaide-Darwin railway systems, Quorn is CLARE TO MARREE hotel for three nights. Dinner included. a popular film location. Leaving the desert Travel north to the desert oasis of Wilpena Pound Resort, Flinders Ranges behind, continue onto Adelaide stopping Parachilna. First licensed in 1876, in Snowtown, on the SA Silo Art Trail. DAY 6 THU 22 APR Farewell dinner tonight. the Prairie Hotel is an iconic outback FLINDERS RANGES destination, renowned for its innovative The Pullman Adelaide menu, perfect for lunch. The Lyndhurst Explore Flinders Ranges with vast and ancient landscapes, amazing landforms, DAY 9 SUN 25 APR Ochre Cliffs are an important site for ADELAIDE TO HOME local Adnyamathanha people, quarried unique geology and wildflowers. See the for thousands of years, the ochre was iconic Wilpena Pound, a phenomenal After breakfast in the hotel, transfer to the traded far north to the Northern Territory natural amphitheatre. At Bunyeroo Valley airport for your flight home. and Queensland, and south to the coast. and Brachina Gorge mallees, native white Continue to Marree your home for the next cypress and wildflowers dominate the

DETAILS PRICE TOUR LEADER LIBBY CAMERON Tour escorted by Libby Cameron Twin Share land only $3,650 pp Libby is a great Air-conditioned motorcoach Twin Share inc. airfare $3,995 pp gardening Deluxe accommodation - 8 nights Single Supplement $395 ambassador who Breakfast daily, 3 Lunches & 8 Dinners All prices in Australian dollars. Prices loves Australia’s Entrance fees to all gardens and based on minimum 15 passengers. natural beauty. sightseeing including South Australia She is thrilled to Autumn Festival, The Heritage Garden, DISCOUNTS be showing you Lyndhurst Orche Cliffs, Parachilna this remarkable Gorge, Wilpena Pound, Blinman, Earlybird $150 - Pay by 11/12/20 landscape and people of the Flinders Bunyeroo Valley, Brachina Gorge, Old Previous Traveller $50 Rangers. Wilpena Station, Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre Garden Clinic Member $25

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