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Broken Hill –Mungo National Park Your journey starts here Beyond Broken Hill with Crooked Compass Outback New South Wales 7 days from $6,929*pp | 13 Sept 2020, 22 March & 6 Sept 2021 PACKAGE INCLUDES FEATURES Explore rich Aboriginal history in Mungo National Park at • Return airport / train station transfers ❑ exclusive access sites with our Indigenous guide • 6 nights accommodation ❑ Sundowners at ‘Walls of China’ in Mungo National Park • Meals as per the itinerary ❑ Cruise through the diverse wetlands of Menindee Lakes • National park fees ❑ Noodle for opals, visit underground homes and stay in • Entry fees and land permits an underground hotel • Private transportation ❑ Explore 8000 year old Aboriginal rock art in Mutawintji NP and restricted access Historic Sites with an accredited • Services of an expert guide Indigenous guide • Local certified Indigenous guides ❑ Interpretive bushwalk on engraving sites, stone making sites • Local taxes and levies and bush foraging ❑ Overnight on a working sheep station in the Shearers Quarters ❑ Night sky astronomy experience with story telling *Conditions apply. Pricing is subject to change at any time until full payment has been received. *A minimum of 4 adults is required to guarantee this departure. Travel insurance is mandatory for travelling w ith Crooked Compass. Full terms and conditions please contact your travel manager. All images courtesy of Crooked Compass. To find out more call Kerrin your personal travel manager M: 0411 853 070 E: [email protected] travelmanagers.com.au/KerrinPoupos Part of the House of Trav el Group ACN: 113 085 626 Member: IATA, AFTA, CLIA 7 Days - Outback New South Wales Your In an area often overlooked, yet so significant to shaping the way our country has been defined Broken Hill – Mungo National Park – Wilcannia – White Cliffs – itinerary Mutawintji National Park – Mundi Mundi – Silverton – Broken Hill Day 1: Arrival Broken Hill. Travelling along red dirt roads, your Day 3: Mungo to Wilcannia. After next stop is Mungo National Park, a delicious breakfast, head north-east Welcome to the outback town of where you spend the day exploring towards the massive Menindee Lake Broken Hill! Broken Hill will welcome this amazing World Heritage Listed system and Kinchega National Park. you with its heritage, character and area. Mungo is an area rich in The first Europeans to visit the area, charm. On arrival, you will be met and Aboriginal history, with evidence followed the Darling River in search transferred to your hotel. found here dating back well over of pasture for their sheep. Menindee Enjoy your first night stay at the new 40,000 years to man’s early was once a thriving river port and the Broken Hill Outback Resort, formally occupation of this once much wetter area is rich in the history of our early known as the Mt Gipps Hotel. The Mt area. You will explore on foot with explorers. Burke and Wills and Gipps Hotel closed in 1987, your Indigenous guide, areas which Charles Sturt’s exploration parties remaining silent for three decades. are restricted to the public, as you both spent time camped at Kinchega. But as of 2018, after years of neglect, have exclusive access to the Pause for a relaxing morning tea on this heritage building has been historical sites and learn of Australia’s the banks of Lake Parmarmaroo – restored to its former glory and is now oldest human remains, the Mungo enjoy a relaxing cruise on Lake the centrepiece of the new resort with Man and Mungo Lady. Both were Wetherill in the ‘River Lady’ – enjoy beautifully appointed facilities and discovered here in 1974. the abundant birdlife that call the décor. (D) wetlands of the Menindee Lakes After checking into your home. Drive towards your next stop Overnight Broken Hill Outback Resort accommodation at Mungo Lodge, at Warrawong on the Darling. (B,L,D) or similar head to the “Walls of China” to watch the magic happen, as the sun sets Overnight Warrawong on the Darling and the colours glow. Sundowners or similar Day 2: Broken Hill to Mungo drinks and nibbles will be set up, as National Park. you watch the world light up around Following breakfast, begin your you.(B,L,D) adventure travelling south along the Darling River by road to the historic Overnight Mungo Lodge or similar port of Pooncarie for morning tea on the riverbank by the old wharf. To find out more call Kerrin your personal travel manager M 0411 853 070 E: [email protected] travelmanagers.com.au/KerrinPoupos Part of the House of Trav el Group ACN: 113 085 626 Member: IATA, AFTA, CLIA 7 Days - Outback New South Wales Your In an area often overlooked, yet so significant to shaping the way our country has been defined Broken Hill – Mungo National Park – Wilcannia – White Cliffs – itinerary Mutawintji National Park – Mundi Mundi – Silverton – Broken Hill Day 4: Wilcannia to White Set off after breakfast into Mutawintji Settle into the fully refurbished Cliffs After breakfast, take the time National Park. Enjoy a homemade shearer’s quarters for the night and to explore the historical stone morning tea along the way in a enjoy a traditional Aussie outback buildings which are vivid reminders of spectacular dry creek bed. The park dinner. You may wish to take what used to be a bustling inland port reveals examples of rock carvings, advantage of the opportunity to have of NSW. Whilst here, take the paintings and stencils that provide a heated outdoor spa on the deck, opportunity to learn more about the evidence of aboriginal occupation of with great views of the Barrier history of Wilcannia and delve more the area that dates back more than Ranges and Mundi Mundi Plains, or a into the Indigenous culture of the 8000 years. Your time at Mutawintji refreshing dip in the plunge pool. area, before heading to your next will be spent in the restricted access After dinner, take the time to explore stop – the unique outback opal Historic Site with an accredited the wonders of an outback night sky. mining town of White Cliffs – the first Indigenous guide. (B,L,D) opal field in Australia. This tiny This area is where ceremonies and Overnight Eldee Station or similar community lives underground, whilst initiations took place. Listen to the above ground there is an eerie lunar Day 6: Silverton to Broken story of Kullawarra and learn about landscape. Why not try your luck Hill Today is a full day tour designed the creation of Mutawintji in the ‘noodling’ for opal. You will also to highlight the diversity of the dreamtime. Embark on an interpretive spend time visiting an underground Silverton area and Broken Hill. Marvel bush walk to the Engravings Site and home and of course, venture into an at the vast expanse of Mundi Mundi the Stencils Site, which provide underground mine before returning to Plains before heading towards evidence of aboriginal occupation of the Underground Motel for drinks and Silverton, almost a ghost town, and the area. Forage and experience nibbles. Your accommodation tonight the setting for movies such as Mad some bush foods whilst in this is at the famous Underground Max 2 and A Town Like Alice. fascinating area. Motel. **Please note this hotel only offers shared facilities. (B,L,D) Continue on your journey towards Eldee Station for the night, where you Day 7: Broken Hill. This morning is Overnight Underground Motel or will experience a working sheep yours at leisure until it is time to similar station located on the edge of the transfer to the airport or train station Day 5: Mutawintji NP to Mundi Mundi Mundi Plains and the Barrier for your departure.(B) Mundi Ranges. To find out more call Kerrin your personal travel manager M 0411 853 070 E: [email protected] travelmanagers.com.au/KerrinPoupos Part of the House of Trav el Group ACN: 113 085 626 Member: IATA, AFTA, CLIA.
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