9 DAYS BIRDSVILLE DESERT ESCAPE

colours in Welford National Park; golden Day 1 | WEDNESDAY | LONGREACH green spinifex, white-barked ghost Arrive in Longreach for the start of your TOUR HIGHLIGHTS gums and stunning red sand dunes. Late adventure. You afternoon in , we’ll take a short „ Qantas Founders Museum will be met at either Longreach Railway trip out of town to toast the sunset from „ Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame Station or Longreach Airport by your beautiful wind-swept red sandhills. Have „ Drover’s Sunset Cruise including Savannah Guides Operator driver and your cameras ready! Smithy’s Outback Dinner & Show host. Transfer to your accommodation for Overnight Cooper Cabins or „ Welford National Park a Welcome Supper and tour briefing. Western Star Hotel, Windorah „ Sunset Sandhill nibbles, Windorah 2 nights Albert Park Motor Inn, Longreach „ Betoota Ghost Town and Day 4 | SATURDAY | BIRDSVILLE JC Hotel Ruins See the JC Hotel Ruins, once part of the Day 2 | THURSDAY | LONGREACH „ Deon’s Lookout and Dreamtime Enjoy an orientation tour of Longreach old township site of Canterbury. Visit Serpent Art Sculpture then visit the world-class Qantas Founders Betoota, originally established to collect „ Sunset nibbles atop Big Red Museum, eloquently telling the story of the cattle tolls and later as a Cobb & Co change (Sand Dune) founding of Qantas. Discover the inspiring station. It’s now a ghost town. Take in „ Inland Hospital Ruins stories of our pioneering heroes at the spectacular views and enjoy a picnic lunch „ Touring Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame. Late at Deon’s Lookout. See the Dreamtime Serpent Indigenous artwork; an impressive „ Famous Birdsville Hotel afternoon, unwind on the Drover’s Sunset Cruise with tasty onboard nibbles before hillside installation created with gravel „ Min Min Encounter and Boulia and gibbers. At the end of the legendary Heritage Complex taking your seat at Smithy’s Outback we arrive in Birdsville. Dinner & Show. „ Historic Middleton Hotel & 2 nights Birdsville Hotel Cawnpore Lookout Day 3 | FRIDAY | WINDORAH „ Australian Age of Dinosaurs Tour Follow the mighty Thomson River Day 5 | SUNDAY | BIRDSVILLE & Sunset Barbecue floodplain to Windorah, said to be the only Stroll down to the banks of tranquil „ Waltzing Matilda Centre place in the world where two rivers form Birdsville Billabong and see the famous a creek! See magnificently contrasting Birdsville Racetrack. Visit the Wirrarri

INCLUSIONS „ 8 nights en suite accommodation „ Travel by luxury 4WD coach „ Touring with our Savannah Guides Operator driver and host „ All meals (8 buffet breakfasts; 7 lunches; 8 dinners) „ All entries/activities as per itinerary „ Longreach accommodation arrival/departure transfers Cawnpore Lookout Thursday Island Tip of Cape York

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Winton Boulia 2 1 LONGREACH 2 Bedourie Stonehenge QUEENSLAND Jundah

NORTHERN TERRITORY 1 Windorah 2 Betoota Birdsville Wild camels, Boulia

BRISBANE

NEW SOUTH WALES

Big Red Carcory Ruins

view the stark flat-topped beauty of or Longreach Railway Station for your the surrounding Lillyvale Hills. Visit the homeward bound connections. historic Middleton Hotel, built during the Medium level of Cobb & Co. era. It was originally a changing SYDNEY fitness required station where tired horses were replaced 2021 DEPARTURES Wollongong with fresh horses on the Winton to 14,21 Apr; 12 May; 09 Jun; 18 Aug Boulia route. While at the pub hear some entertaining yarns by the local publican Centre to view local artists’ work and over morning tea. Arrive in Winton in time explore the Inland Hospital. Tonight we for lunch. Visit the historic North Gregory toast the glorious outback sunset from Hotel on the site where Waltzing Matilda 2022 ITINERARY atop Big Red, a 40 metre high sand dune was first played. Enjoy some free time Use the QR code below to view the up to marking the symbolic eastern edge of the downtown to wander the Opal Walk or date itinerary for 2022 or visit our website. . visit the Winton Truck Museum. 2 nights Boulder Opal Motor Inn, Winton Day 6 | MONDAY | BOULIA Take a close up look at the rare and ancient Waddi Trees and visit the Carcory Ruins. Day 8 | WEDNESDAY | WINTON Explore the remote town of Bedourie, If there is one song that lives in the located on a sand dune, overlooking the heart of all Australians, it is Waltzing Eyre Creek floodplain. See the historic Matilda. Uncover the story behind the Royal Hotel, built in the 1880s with song at the Waltzing Matilda Centre. adobe bricks; still very much in its original Discover state of the art interpretive condition. Witness spectacular 360-degree displays and learn Winton’s connection 2022 DEPARTURES views from the Vaughan Johnson Lookout. with Qantas’ first ever board meeting at 17 Apr; 08 May; 12 Jun; In Boulia, visit the Min Min Encounter, the Qantilda Museum. Mid afternoon, 24 Jul; 14 Aug; 04 Sep a tribute to the famed Min Min Light visit the Australian Age of Dinosaurs phenomenon. Explore the Stonehouse for a fascinating tour of the laboratory, Museum, one of the first homes built collection room and the incredible in Western Queensland and see the Dinosaur Canyon. Relax with cool drinks impressive Marine Reptile Fossil exhibit. and great company at our exclusive sunset 2022 EAR LY Overnight Australian Hotel or Desert barbecue overlooking the plains where dinosaurs once roamed! Sands Motel, Boulia EMU DEALS! Book by 31 July 2021 Day 7 | TUESDAY | WINTON Day 9 | THURSDAY and travel at 2021 prices. We follow a spectacularly scenic drive Following breakfast you will be transferred to either Longreach Airport to Winton via Cawnpore Lookout to

2021 TOURS 2022 TOURS BIRDSVILLE DESERT ESCAPE Twin Share Single Twin Share Single 9 Day Longreach – Longreach $4249pp $4989pp $4449pp $5249pp 10 Day – Brisbane FLY/R AIL $ * $ * $ * $ * with one way flight + one way overnight rail 4958 pp 5698 pp 5158 pp 5958 pp

*Price includes one way economy flight and one way First Class overnight rail on the Spirit of the Outback between Brisbane and Longreach. Rail is based on Aust. Govt Senior Card holder fares. Please ask for other fare types. Subject to availability and airline booking conditions.