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TOUR LONGREACH 3 HIGHLIGHTS Simpson „ Mount Hope Station Tour & Desert NP Camp Oven Dinner 14 – 15 DAYS „ Roma Saleyards Tour 1 „ Cosmos Centre Big Sky 2 Roma CORNER COUNTRY EXPLORER Twilight Session Charleville 1 1 „ Historic Corones Hotel Tour EXPLORE MAJESTIC DESERT LANDSCAPES AND REMOTE „ Meet the Bilby Experience 1 TOWNS WITH LEGENDARY OUTBACK CHARACTERS. InnaminckaInnamincka 2 „ Fella Centre 1 „ Eulo Artesian Springs Cameron QUEENSLAND Corner „ Exclusive Thargomindah NEW SOUTH WALES Sunset Drinks & Dinner under 1 Tibooburra the stars „ Historic Hotel „ Cameron Corner & Artesian Time Tunnel. Discover the quaint Strzelecki Desert Day 1 | TUESDAY | BRISBANE township of Eulo, hear tales of Isabel Arrive in Brisbane and check-in to your „ Cooper Creek Cruise ‘The Eulo Queen’ and learn the story of accommodation early afternoon. At the „ Burke & Wills Dig Tree the Eulo Artesian Mud Baths. Travel to Welcome Dinner tonight, meet fellow Thargomindah and tour the historic Old „ Birdsville Hotel and travellers. Hear all about the adventures Thargomindah Hospital to learn some Big Red Sunset ahead with a comprehensive tour „ Inland Hospital and Royal orientation by your Savannah Guides fascinating tales from the 1800s. Discover Hotel Ruins Operator driver and host. the story behind Thargomindah’s electrical street lighting story. Enjoy exclusive „ Birdsville Racetrack and Overnight Royal on the Park, Brisbane Birdsville Billabong sunset drinks at the historic bore followed by a delicious hot pot dinner under Betoota Ghost Town and „ Day 2 | WEDNESDAY | ROMA the stars. Deon’s Lookout We will travel north-west from Brisbane Overnight Oasis Motel or Explorers „ Windorah Sandhills at Sunset to the Garden City of for a picturesque morning tea at Picnic Point Caravan Park Cabins, Thargomindah „ Stonehenge private property Cafe. Continue along the Adventure Way Tour and Pub Lunch to Chinchilla, home of the Chinchilla „ Longreach Town Tour Melon Festival and Miles, a vibrant rural Day 5 | SATURDAY | TIBOOBURRA „ Qantas Founders Museum & township. Arrive in Roma, the heart of Travel south-west across the Dingo Airpark Tour beef country. Late afternoon, join a tour Barrier Fence to historic Noccundra „ Luminescent Longreach of Mount Hope, a working cattle station. Hotel; then cross the border at Warri Sound & Light Show & This property is home to Droughtmaster Gate into Outback New South Wales. Exclusive Qantas Founders cattle, coal seam gas and three View the eastern sections of the Sturt Museum Dinner generations of the Price family. Enjoy National Park. Traverse gibber plains „ Australian Stockman’s Hall of sunset nibbles and drinks followed by a and spectacular ‘jump up’ country Fame Entry & Stockman’s Live delicious two-course camp oven dinner. to Tibooburra. The striking granite Show Overnight Roma Explorers Inn, Roma boulders around Tibooburra are said „ Ilfracombe Tour & Historic to be remnants of a mass underground Wellshot Hotel granite dome dating back around „ Drover’s Sunset Cruise Day 3 | THURSDAY | CHARLEVILLE 410 million years. Explore the National including Smithy’s Outback Visit Roma Saleyards, the largest cattle Park Interpretive Centre and Court Dinner and Show selling facility in Australia. On your guided House Museum. tour you’ll learn the day-to-day processes Innamincka Sandhills Overnight Granites Motel, Tibooburra of the saleyards and have the opportunity

to watch the cattle sales in action. Travel to Charleville for a fascinating tour of the Day 6 | SUNDAY | INNAMINCKA historic Corones Hotel. This afternoon Travel through Sturt National Park to we meet the rare and endangered Cameron Corner where the boundary Bilby at the Bilby Experience. Learn lines of the states of Queensland, South more about this native marsupial and the long-running captive breeding and Australia and New South Wales meet. conservation program. Discover the See the Strzelecki Desert, characterised wonders of the magical outback night sky by extensive red dune fields and home of at the mesmerising Cosmos Centre Big Sky the endangered Dusky Hopping Mouse. Twilight Session. Pass by large cattle stations then travel through the heart of the oil and gas Overnight Mulga Country Motor Inn, fields to Innamincka, on the banks of Charleville Cooper Creek. Learn the important role played by the Australian Inland Mission Day 4 | FRIDAY | THARGOMINDAH in providing essential medical services to Follow the Warrego River to Cunnamulla, remote towns. which came into being as a Cobb & Co Medium level of coach stop. Visit the Cunnamulla Fella 2 nights Innamincka Hotel, Innamincka Channel Country Birdlife fitness required Centre, home to the art gallery and

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view of the Diamantina Shire. We arrive Luminescent Longreach Sound & Light in the world. We’ll cap off the tour with Day 7 | MONDAY | INNAMINCKA in Windorah on the Cooper Creek where Show, which brings the 100-year story of an authentic pub lunch at the historic Retrace the last days of Burke & Wills and the Thomson and Barcoo Rivers merge. Qantas to life. Wellshot Hotel. Late afternoon join the INCLUSIONS learn the story of Innamincka, dubbed Explore Windorah in the heart of the Drover’s Sunset Cruise on the beautiful „ All en suite accommodation 'the town with two lives'. Visit the historic Channel Country with its majestic red sand Day 13 | SUNDAY | LONGREACH Thomson River. Unwind with onboard Travel by luxury 4WD coach Burke & Wills Dig Tree then take your seat „ dune landscapes. Late afternoon, we’ll This morning, explore the fascinating nibbles as you gaze out to a magnificent Brisbane to Longreach aboard the Eco-certified sunset cruise on drive out to Windorah’s red sandhills for a themed galleries at the Australian outback sunset. Enjoy live entertainment the Cooper Creek. Take in the stunning „ Savannah Guides Operator spectacular sunset. Stockman’s Hall of Fame and discover and a two-course camp oven themed birdlife and spot the occasional inquisitive driver & host inspiring stories of our pioneering heroes. dinner under the stars at Smithy’s Outback animal on the banks. Overnight Western Star Hotel, Windorah Dinner & Show. „ All meals Take your seat at the exciting Stockman’s „ All entries/activities as per itinerary Live Show to see amazing horsemanship, Day 8 | TUESDAY | BIRDSVILLE experience the action of a live muster, Day 14 | MONDAY „ Longreach accommodation Follow the Strzelecki Desert through flood Day 11 | FRIDAY | LONGREACH and witness the traditional Australian Your Outback Queensland adventure departure transfer to Longreach plains, sand dunes and gibber country. See Follow the Cooper Creek floodplain to Stockman skills that are still used today. comes to an end after breakfast with a Bilby Experience, Charleville Airport or Railway Station the historic woolshed on Cordillo Downs Jundah on the banks of the Thomson Take a short drive to Ilfracombe, founded complimentary transfer to your homeward Station, once one of the largest pastoral River. At the picturesque Swanvale in 1891 as a transport hub for Wellshot bound connections. The journey may properties in the country. Further north Lookout we’ll be joined by a local station Station, which at the time held the have ended, but the memories will last owner for a personal tour through Scan the QR code below to view itinerary we’ll pass the crumbling ruins of Cadelga largest number of sheep on any station a lifetime. Outstation as we travel to Birdsville his property followed by lunch at the and deals on our website through some of Australia’s richest cattle Stonehenge Hotel. See the unusual country. Tonight have a yarn with the Address Book at Stonehenge where locals and enjoy a dinner at the famous visitors sign their town names in stone! Birdsville Hotel. Late afternoon, we will arrive into 2 nights Birdsville Hotel, Birdsville Longreach, heart of the central west. Check in and enjoy a relaxed evening at

your accommodation. Day 9 | WEDNESDAY | BIRDSVILLE 3 nights Longreach Motor Inn, Longreach This morning visit the Wirrarri Centre to view work by local Indigenous artists. Next take a stroll to the Birdsville Billabong Day 12 | SATURDAY | LONGREACH where birdlife, fish and yabbies abound. Enjoy an introductory town tour 2022 DEPARTURES 10, 24 May; 21 June; 26 July; Stand on the well known Birdsville of Longreach and some free time 16 August 2022 Racetrack and explore the Inland Hospital downtown. Wander the interactive Birdsville Hotel and Royal Hotel ruins; poignant reminders displays of the Qantas Founders of a pre-federation metropolis. Tonight Museum to discover the real Qantas we’ll toast the glorious outback sunset story. Hear the inspiring human stories from Big Red, a 40-metre-high sand dune of our national airline’s early years. 2022 TOURS on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Step inside the Boeing 747, 707 and CORNER COUNTRY EXPLORER Twin Share Single 2022 EAR LY Super Constellation on an interpretive EMU DEALS! $ $ tour of the impressive Airpark. Late 14 Day Brisbane – Longreach 7449pp 8599pp Book by 30 November 2021 Day 10 | THURSDAY | WINDORAH afternoon we return to Qantas Founders and travel at 2021 prices. Travel on to the ghost town of Betoota, Museum for an exclusive dinner 15 Day Brisbane – Brisbane* $ *pp $ *pp *Limited spaces. Subject to availability once a Cobb & Co change station. Stand surrounded by aviation history, followed one way overnight rail 7808 8958 Tarpot’s Cottage, Windorah atop Deon’s Lookout with its amazing by the entertaining and informative

*Price includes one way First Class overnight rail on the Spirit of the Outback based on Aust. Govt. Senior Card holder fares. Please ask for other fare types and flight packages. 26 Subject to availability. 27