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Premium Extended Tour Packages Extended Tour Packages Pg. Only The Best! Birdsville Desert Escape 14-15 Bombora’s premium tour packages have been Corner Country Escape 16-17 thoughtfully crafted to include the very best attractions. Cape York Air/Overland Accommodated Tour 18-19 We are very proud to offer our clients unique, 11 Day Gulf Savannah Accommodated Tour 20-21 memorable holiday experiences. The Best of Tropical Cairns 22 When on board a Bombora coach it is our commitment Mackay & The Rainforest 23 to you that we deliver that ‘once-in-a-life-time Tropical Townsville 24 experience’, every time. Rockhampton & The Capricorn Coast 25 Scenic Sunshine Coast 26 We hope to welcome you on one of our terrific tour packages soon. Booking Forms 27 Pricing Table (back cover) 28 13 Courtesy of Tourism and Events Queensland Birdsville Desert Escape Our Popular ITINERARY DAY 1 – LONGREACH (D) to toast the sunset from beautiful wind-swept red FULLY INCLUSIVE On arrival in Longreach you will be met and sandhills. Have your cameras ready! Overnight transferred to your accommodation for the Cooper Cabins, Windorah. Tour featuring next two nights. Meet fellow travellers at our DAY 4 – BIRDSVILLE (B,L,D) Welcome Dinner with your Savannah Guides Birdsville–where the See the JC Hotel Ruins, once part of the Operator driver and host. Tonight you’ll get a Channel Country meets township site of Canterbury. Visit Betoota, preview of the exciting adventures to come. originally established to collect cattle tolls the desert. Plus Winton 2 nights Longreach Motor Inn, Longreach. and later as a Cobb & Co change station. It’s and Longreach. DAY 2 – LONGREACH (B,L,D) now a ghost town. Take in spectacular views Visit the world-class Qantas Founders Museum, from Deon’s Lookout and see the Dreamtime eloquently telling the story of the founding of Serpent Indigenous artwork; an impressive 9 Days / 8 Nights Qantas. Discover the inspiring stories of our hillside installation created with gravel and departing Longreach pioneering heroes at the Australian Stockman’s gibbers. At the end of the famous Birdsville Hall of Fame. Late afternoon, unwind on the Track we arrive in Birdsville. 2 nights Birdsville Drover’s Sunset Cruise with tasty onboard Hotel, Birdsville. Price: nibbles platters, before taking your seat at DAY 5 – BIRDSVILLE (B,L,D) Smithy’s Outback Dinner & Show. $3999.00 Stroll down to the banks of tranquil Birdsville Per Person Twin/Double DAY 3 – WINDORAH (B,L,D) Billabong and see the well known Birdsville Follow the mighty Thomson River floodplain to Racetrack. Visit the Wirrarri Centre to view $4799.00 Windorah, said to be the only place in the world local artists’ work and explore the Inland Single where two rivers form a creek! See magnificently Hospital. Tonight we toast the glorious outback contrasting colours in Welford National Park; For 2020 dates: sunset from atop Big Red, a 40 metre high sand golden green spinifex, white-barked ghost gums dune marking the symbolic eastern edge of the 22 April; 06 May; 03 June; 29 July; and stunning red sand dunes. Late afternoon in Simpson Desert. 12 August; 16 September; 07 October. Windorah, we’ll take a short trip out of town 11 Days / 10 Nights Stockmans Hall of Fame departing Brisbane Return First Class overnight rail Price: $4717.00 Per Person Twin/Double $5517.00 Per Person Single For 2020 dates: 21 April; 05 May; 02 June; 28 July; 11 August; 15 September; 06 October. Happy campers Courtesy of Tourism and Events Queensland www.bomboraresort.com.au Free call 14 1800 074 363 Big Red Courtesy of Tourism and Events Queensland DAY 6 – BOULIA (B,L,D) originally a coach staging post. Arrive in Winton TOUR HIGHLIGHTS & Take a close up look at the rare and ancient in time for lunch at the famous North Gregory Waddi Trees. Visit the Carcory Ruins, a remnant Hotel. Enjoy some free time after lunch to relax INCLUSIONS of European settlement, and see the nearby or wander the Opal Walk. 2 nights: Boulder Opal • Quantas Founders Museum flowing Artesian Bore. Explore the remote Motor Inn, Winton. • Australian Stockmans Hall of Fame town of Bedourie, located on a sand dune; DAY 8 – WINTON (B,L,D) • Birdsville Track overlooking the Eyre Creek floodplain. See the Discover the Waltzing Matilda Centre, the only • Birdsville Billabong historic Royal Hotel, built in the 1880s with museum dedicated to a song. Mid afternoon, • Big Red adobe bricks; still very much in its original visit the Australian Age of Dinosaurs, for an • Winton condition. Witness spectacular 360-degree interpretive tour of the laboratory, collection • Welford National Park views from the Vaughan Johnson Lookout. Visit room and Dinosaur Canyon. Relax with • Stonehouse Museum Boulia’s Min Min Encounter, a tribute to the newfound friends at our exclusive sunset famed Min Min Light phenomenon. Explore barbeque overlooking the plains where • Waltzing Matilda Centre the Stonehouse Museum, one of the first dinosaurs once roamed! • Australian Age of Dinosaurs homes built in Western Queensland. Discover the impressive Marine Reptile Fossil exhibit. DAY 9 – LONGREACH (B) Overnight Australian Hotel or Desert Sands Following breakfast you will be transferred to Motel, Boulia. either Longreach Airport or Longreach Railway Station for your homeward bound connections. DAY 7 – WINTON (B,L,D) We follow a spectacularly scenic drive to Winton via Cawnpore Lookout to view the stark flat- Key: topped beauty of the surrounding Lillyvale Hills. B = Breakfast; MT = Morning Tea; L = Lunch; Visit the historic Middleton Hotel for morning tea, D = Dinner PAYMENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS Non-refundable deposit of $600.00 per person with a completed booking form is required to ensure confirmation. Final payment is due 60 days prior to departure. While prices could be subject to change without notice, upon final payment, all tour fares are fixed and not subject to change. For the tours departing in less than 60 days, full and immediate payment is required. Fares are in Australian Dollars. Luggage is 10 kgs per person per bag, a small day pack on board is welcome. Each passenger is entitled to take one medium size 60 litre soft bag sufficient to accommodate all the clothing requirements for your tour. Please ensure your bag does not have wheels as these may damage other passengers bags. Luggage limits are enforced on every tour. Passengers may be asked to leave their excess baggage behind in the event that the weight and type of luggage exceeds our requirements. Please check with your chosen accommodation that any access luggage can be stored with them. If you have chosen to stay at any of our suggested pick up points, then this will not be a problem. Courtesy of Tourism and Events Queensland 15 Dig Tree Courtesy of Tourism and Events Queensland Corner Country Escape 2020 Explore majestic desert refresh. Tonight, join a tour of the Big Rig; see the DAY 6 – INNAMINCKA (B,L,D) entertaining sound and light show telling the story Travel through Sturt National Park to Cameron landscapes and remote of Australia’s boom and bust oil and gas years. Corner where the boundary lines of the states outback towns with Overnight Roma Explorers Inn, Roma. of Queensland, South Australia and New DAY 3 – CHARLEVILLE (B,L,D) South Wales meet. See the Strzelecki Desert, legendary outback Visit Roma Saleyards, the largest cattle selling characterised by extensive red dune fields; home characters. facility in Australia. On your guided tour you’ll of the endangered Dusky Hopping Mouse. learn the day-to-day processes of the saleyards Pass by large cattle stations then travel through the and have the opportunity to watch the cattle heart of the oil and gas fields to Innamincka, on 14 & 15 days sales in action. Travel to Charleville for a tour the banks of Cooper Creek. Learn the important and lunch at the historic Corones Hotel. This role played by the Australian Inland Mission in Departing Brisbane afternoon we meet the rare and endangered Bilby providing essential medical services to remote towns. 2 nights Innamincka Hotel, Innamincka. Price: at the Bilby Experience. Learn more about this native marsupial and the long-running captive DAY 7 – INNAMINCKA (B,L,D) $7358.00 breeding and conservation program. Discover the Retrace the last days of the ill-fated Burke and Wills Per Person Twin/Double wonders of the magical outback night sky at the expedition with a visit to the historic Dig Tree, mesmerising Cosmos Centre Twilight Telescope the site where they set up depot Camp LXV. Spot $8648.00 Observation Session. 1 night Mulga Country gliding pelicans as you cruise beneath gnarled river Single Motor Inn, Charleville. gums on the peaceful Cooper Creek. Relax with DAY 4 – THARGOMINDAH (B,L,D) drinks and canapes while your guide explains some For 2020 dates: of the more fascinating aspects of the Cooper Creek 19 May; 16 June; 28 July; 01 September. Follow the Warrego River to Cunnamulla, which came into being as a Cobb & Co coach stop. and Innamincka Regional Reserve. Visit the Cunnamulla Fella Centre, home to the DAY 8 – BIRDSVILLE (B,L,D) art gallery and Artesian Time Tunnel. Discover Follow the Strzelecki Desert through flood plains, the quaint township of Eulo, hear tales of Isabel sand dunes and gibber country. See the historic ITINERARY ‘The Eulo Queen’ and learn the story of the Eulo woolshed on Cordillo Downs Station; once one Artesian Mud Baths. Travel to Thargomindah and of the largest pastoral properties in the country. DAY 1 – BRISBANE (D) discover its historic electrical street lighting story. Further north we’ll pass the crumbling ruins of Arrive in Brisbane and check-in to your Overnight Oasis Motel or Explorers Caravan Park Cadelga Outstation as we travel to Birdsville accommodation early afternoon.
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