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Outback New South Wales Adventure OutbackOutback NewNew SouthSouth WalesWales AdventureAdventure 10 day Outback NSW 10 days from Escorted Small Group Tour $5,595^ 14 - 21 June 2021 INCLUSIONS • Travel in air conditioned 14-17 seat Discover a history of mining, spectacular desert tour vehicle with reclining leather seats landscapes, a vibrant arts scene and Australia’s first • Expert Driver Guide heritage-listed city. Visit Mutawintji National Park, where • 9 nights twin-share accommodation indigenous rock art can be seen. Explore the Menindee • Meals as per itinerary (B-Breakfast, L-Lunch, D-Dinner) region, the Burke & Wills Expedition and Menindee • Admissions & National Park fees Lakes. Visit the World Heritage Mungo National Park and • Tours as per Itinerary the Australian Shearers Hall of Fame. Then on to Wagga • Tour Escort Wagga, on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River for * Minimum 10 Guests delicious food, wine, art & scenery. Your Travel Agent: OUTBACK NEW SOUTH WALES ADVENTURE 14 - 21 June 2021 • Escorted Small Group Day 1: Arrive Broken Hill Days 5-6: Mungo National Park (BLD) Days 8-9: Wagga Wagga (BL) On arrival into Broken Hill, your guide will Continue to Mungo National Park via Today we visit the Glendale Citrus & meet & transfer you to your accommodation. Garnpung Lake. The World Heritage listing Hazelnut Orchard before arriving in Wagga Day at leisure. Outback Resort Broken Hill. of Mungo National Park indicates its Wagga. During your stay, enjoy the food Day 2: Broken Hill Discovery (BLD) importance to the outback region with & wine scene, wonderful galleries and plenty to see along the way including fascinating history. We visit the award- Discover Broken Hill with its history of kangaroos, emus, birdlife & red dirt roads. winning Coolamon Cheese Factory, Wine mining, desert landscapes, vibrant arts Arrive at Mungo Lodge for lunch and check Tasting at a Boutique Winery and the and galleries. Visit Silverton and enjoy the in. In the afternoon, head off on an amazing picturesque town of Junee including the Sculpture Symposium and Living Desert Mungo Walls of China Sunset Tour with your Liquorice & Chocolate Factory. Enjoy a Area, a collection of beautiful sandstone guide. Return to the lodge for sundowners & farewell dinner. Townhouse Hotel Wagga sculptures. Outback Resort Broken Hill. a 3 course dinner. Wagga (2 nts) Day 3: Mutawintji National Park (BLD) Next day, go on a sightseeing tour into Day 10: Wagga Wagga to Sydney (BL) Enjoy a private charter touring experience the World Heritage Mungo National Travel via picturesque countryside as we to discover Mutawintji National Park. Visit Park including Zanci homestead, Mungo make our way to the Southern Highlands, some of the most significant indigenous Woolshed and Mungo Visitors Centre. stopping at the historic village of Berrima for rock art at one of the country’s most sacred Learn about the fascinating indigenous and lunch before returning to Sydney. Aboriginal sites. Tour includes Interpretive pastoral history of this area. After a picnic walks to the Mutawintji Aboriginal rock lunch at Red Top Lookout, go on a Self engravings & hand stencil sites, audio- Guided Tour of “The Loop” a 50 km circuit visual presentation telling the traditional around the outside of the Walls of China dreamtime story of Mutawintji & a picnic stopping at Mallee Walk. Visit Vigar’s Well, a lunch. Outback Resort Broken Hill. natural water hole where Cobb & Co would Day 4: Menindee & Kinchega N.P. (BL) stop to rest and water the horses travelling Explore the Menindee region, a tiny outback between Qld & SA. Dinner this evening at settlement famous for two things: the last the lodge. Lake Mungo Lodge place where the Burke and Wills expedition Day 7: Balranald - Narrandera (BL) stayed and the Menindee Lakes, an inland Travel to the heritage town of Balranald wonderland and a vital source of water for located on the banks of the Murrumbidgee orchards & farms. The lakes are full of dead River. Explore Yanga National Park, Yanga trees, surrounded by sand, saltbush & red Woolshed then relax with a picnic lunch. soils. Within Kinchega National Park we visit Stop at Hay for the Australian Shearers Hall the historic woolshed & the Darling flood of Fame then arrive in Narrandera. Bishops plain around the Menindee Lakes system Lodge to discover the differing environs. Enjoy a sunset cruise and view the outback sun ^ Prices are per person twin share. setting behind the River Red Gums. Burke & Conditions apply. Wills Hotel Menindee Image Credits: Destination NSW.
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