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Experience these amazing atractions and destinations with the diversity of tours and travel packages we have to offer! Cycle, walk, canoe, sail, explore, hike and discover some of the world's most unique attractions. Encounter diverse cultures, history, arts, crafts, and places of natural significance. Sightseeing, shopping, museums, temples and historical sites are part of our overall travel experiences for you.
Tours and travel packages for all ages, fitness levels, timeframes, dream destinations, budgets and group requirements can be found with Travel Collective.
Small group tours or independent travellers alike can discover the amazing attractions listed here as part of our tours, travel packages or as a tailor-made custom tour for yourself and your friends.
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Australia
Australia. The world’s largest island and also its smallest continent. The only country that is also a continent, Australia is clearly a unique spot on the globe. 40 million years of isolation have carved a land like no other; a land that even now contains undiscovered wonders. Visit this Great Southern Land on one of our cycling or walking tours!
Australia, Northern Territory - Aboriginal Art
On our Cycling Tours and Walking Tours in Australia you can get up close to some of the most ancient Indigenous art in the world! The full colour and character of Australia is only partly revealed by its landscapes, plants and animals. It's human inhabitants complete the scene, and the people of Australia present a long and extraordinary diverse history. So why not see it now with the Australia Holiday and Small Group Travel Specialists.
Australia, Northern Territory - Devil's Marbles
On our cycle and walking tours we provide time to pause and enjoy unusual sites such as the delicately balancing Devil’s Marbles, looking for all the world as if the devil himself has stacked them up. Aboriginal legend refers to these spherical and balanced boulders as the "Eggs of the Rainbow Serpent" aptly reflecting the egg-like form of the marbles, located 100 km (62 miles) south of Tennant Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Australia, Northern Territory - Kakadu National Park
On our cycling and walking tours you can journey through this magical and ancient place at a speed more akin to the relaxed pace of nature. You can take the time to discover hidden rock art, a secret swimming hole or spot some rare and fantastic wildlife. Australia's largest national park and World Heritage area, covering nearly 20,000 km square (7720 sq miles), Kakadu lies in the Northern Territory, 200 km (124 miles) east of Darwin.
Australia, Northern Territory - Kata Tjuta, The Olgas
On our cycling tours you travel within the natural environment, not past it, allowing you the experience the sights, smells and essence of the Australian environment first hand rather than through a window. Kata Tjuta means ‘many heads’ according to the Aboriginal people who traditionally inhabit this region close to Uluru in central Australia. The name is fitting given Kata Tjuta is formed by a cluster of 36 dome-shaped peaks with Mount Olga being the highest.
Australia, Northern Territory - Katherine Gorge
Katherine Gorge was formed by the Katherine River eroding away the soft sandstone over at least 20 million years. Water is a major force of nature here, with around 1000mm (1 m) falling between December and March each year. The gorge is situated 275 kms (170 miles) south east of Darwin in the far north of the Northern Territory.
Australia, Northern Territory - Kings Canyon
Kings Canyon is located in Watarrka Nation Park, at the western end of the relatively high plateau of the George Gill Range. It is part of a landscape of rugged gorges, rockholes and green oasis.
Australia, Northern Territory - Litchfield National Park
Litchfield National Park is located close to the better-known Kakadu, just 120 km (75 miles) southwest of Darwin and also contains superb natural features and attractions. Featuring contrasting monsoonal rainforest with waterfalls and rivers and a rugged, dryer sandstone plateau, Litchfield is just as beautiful as its famous neighbour.
Australia, Northern Territory - Lost City
The Lost City is a series of stark rock formations found in Litchfield National Park. Together with stunning tropical waterfalls and swimming holes, this is a truly beautiful destination found just south of Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory.
Australia, Northern Territory - MacDonnell Ranges
On our cycling and walking tours you can wander here – to the red heart of Australia. See the big attractions of Uluru and Kata Tjuta but then travel further, into the secret fiery heart of the MacDonnell Ranges to discover hidden gorges and pools and experience the true red centre.
Australia, Northern Territory - Palm Valley
Palm Valley is an ancient wonder found within the Finke Gorge National Park, 138 kms west of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. The valley is named for the 1200 mature and 12,000 immature Red Cabbage Palms growing here, and no-where else in the world.
Australia, Northern Territory - Uluru, Ayers Rock
Cycling and walking are the best ways to get up close and personal with this exciting destination, you not only see it, you move at a pace which is in harmony with Uluru allowing you to smell, feel and experience it close up and personally. Our Cycling Tours create just such an experience here at the desert heart of Australia.
Australia, Queensland - Daintree Rainforest
The Daintree Rainforest is over one hundred and thirty-five million years old – the oldest in the world. Approximately 430 species of birds live among the trees, including 13 species that are found nowhere else in the world. Overall, it is home to the most concentrated diversity of plants and animals in the world – with thousands of different species within only 1200 square kilometres (120,000 ha).
Australia, Queensland - Undara Lava Tubes
Undara was the site of a massive volcanic eruption some 190,000 years ago, when a volcano in the McBride volcanic province ejected approximately 23 cubic kilometres of lava onto the surrounding 1,550 square kilometres. The swift flowing lava hardened to create unusual features in the – tubes which house a multitude of life forms.
Australia, South Australia - Coober Pedy, Outback
The words Coober Pedy and opals are almost synonymous in South Australia, where this isolated northern settlement produced about half the world’s opals. Located 931km (579 miles) northwest of Adelaide and west of Lake Eyre Coober Pedy lies in the arid centre of South Australia.
Australia, South Australia - Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges is considered the oldest mountain range on Earth, created around 500 million years ago. Now a series of craggy but low hills, and it is hard to imagine that this was once a lofty mountain range on a Himalayan scale. The once high peaks have been eroded by wind, water and rocky abrasion over millions of years and the highest peak is now only 1200 m (3937 ft).
Australia, South Australia - Kangaroo Island
112 kilometres southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf Saint Vincent is Kangaroo Island or KI, as it is affectionately known. At the closest point it is just 13 km from Cape Jervis and mainland Australia and at seven times the size of Singapore is Australia’s third largest island behind Tasmania and Fraser Island. KI is was also voted Best Island in the Asia-Pacific region by National Geographic Traveller!
Australia, South Australia & Western Australia - Nullarbor Plain
From Ceduna in South Australia to Norseman in Western Australia, for about 2000 km (745 miles) is a region known as the Nullarbor Plain. The name ‘Nullarbor’ is often mistakenly thought to be Indigenous in origin. Nullarbor actually comes from the Latin nullus – no and arbor – tree: The treeless plain. And it is quite an accurate name as the area is largely flat and covered in low or shrubby vegetation.
Australia, Victoria - The Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road winds its way along the south eastern coast of Australia, from Geelong through to Warnambool and takes in spectacular views of the Bass Strait, the shipwreck coast, surf coast and Port Campbell National Park.
Australia, Victoria - The Great Ocean Walk
The Great Ocean Walk is one of Australia's great walks.
Australia, Western Australia - Broome
In the far north of Western Australia, Broome is the gateway to the spectacular Kimberly region - a land of rivers, gorges, mountain ranges and ancient rocks that has changed little for many thousands of years. Founded in the 1870's as a pearling centre, Broome is a relaxed tropical town of around 11,000 people. The presence of the fine pearls brought many Asian merchants and divers to Broome.
Australia, Western Australia - Cable Beach
One of Western Australia's most famous beaches, Cable Beach in Broome, attracts visitors from all over the world each year. Cable Beach stretches for 22 kilometres and consists of pristine white sands and shimmering turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.
Australia, Western Australia - Kimberley Region
Experience one of Australia’s most diverse regions in the Kimberley in far north Western Australia on our cycling tours. A region renowned for its natural beauty, remoteness and fascinating industries and history, the Kimberley is one of the hidden gems of Australia’s north. Covering an area about 420,000 km sq (162,000 sq miles) the Kimberley can truly be described as one of the world's last true wilderness areas and Australia's least disturbed area, only being settled by white man as late as the 1890's.
Australia, Western Australia - Purnululu, Bungle Bungles, Nation
On our cycling tours you have the chance to experience places that are virtually inaccessible to larger means of transport – just like the breathtaking and remote Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) National Park. Get way off the beaten track here and see an Australia few get to experience. The Bungle Bungle massif and its surrounding national park are now one of the Kimberley's major tourist attractions.
Australian Fauna - Kangaroos, Koalas, Wildlife
In keeping with the Australian continent's ancient and different landscape, the abundant wildlife is unsurpassed in it's variety and indigenous adaptation to the unique environment. Several of Australia's animals have, through their long isolation from the rest of the world, developed their own very special forms.