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Alice Springs Adventure Tours

Alice Springs tour offers a unique range of adventures. Check below the list of Alice springs adventure, which you can enjoy in this most popular Australia Tours destination.

Outback Ballooning
Your adventure begins 1.5 hours before dawn, the balloons being inflated as the sun lights up the MacDonnel Ranges. Take a balloon ride and see the sunrise, have a champagne breakfast in the middle of the desert.

Whilst floating gently in the air you will appreciate the vast remoteness, scenery and wildlife of the Australian Outback. Wildlife, particularly big red kangaroos are seen nearly every day as your balloon crosses spinifex grasses, mulga scrub and cattle stations. Alice Springs has ideal weather for ballooning and the tour operators run almost every day of the year.

Helicopter Flights
It is no secret that helicopters are an exciting, adventurous and special way to travel. Helicopter flights around all sorts of local attractions, from seeing town from the air to along the mountains to the gaps and gorges. You can view most magnificent natural wonders of the world like Lake Amadeus, Palm Valley, Larapinta Trail or Uluru / Ayers Rock.

Cycling
You can hire a bicycle and tour around town the healthy way. Remember to carry water.

Alice Springs Golf  Course
Alice Springs is home to a number of highly regarded golf clubs. Most golf courses are situated near to Alice Springs and are within easy reach of central Alice Springs, often featuring breathtaking views of the surrounding scrublands. Golf course in Alice Springs is rated one of the best desert golf courses. You can also find a clubhouse with drinks & snacks.

Alice Springs Quad Bike Tour
Quad bike the outback, travelling varied terrain and viewing abundant wildlife. Some tour groups do quading through the spinifex, and Harley rides through remote Central Australia. Experience some of the most beautiful scenery Alice Springs has to offer on a quad bike adventure.

Guided Walk around Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Explore the remarkable Uluru (Ayers Rock) with a guided walk.

Camel Ride
Take a camel ride, explore the places with its varied native plants and animals. Also visit the Camel Museum and Camel Shop.

Enjoy Rugby League
Matches are held at Anzac Oval from March and finalise in the Grand Final usually held on the first Saturday of September. League was founded in Alice Springs in 1963, and to this day, two of the foundation teams, Wests and United still play. It is a good strong competition and makes for a wonderful day out!

Alice Springs, the major Australia attractions promises memorable adventures tour.

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Jan
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2010
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Cradle Mountain Tasmania

Cradle Mountain-Tasmania
Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, is part of the World Heritage area which includes Lake St Clair in the heart of the island. It is Tasmania’s best-known national park and one of the major Australia attractions

Cradle Mountain is a mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia. Rising to 1,545 metres above sea level it is one of the principal tourist sites in Tasmania, owing to its natural beauty. The mountain is composed of dolerite columns, similar to many of the other mountains in the area. The mountain rises above the glacially formed Dove Lake (934m), Lake Wilks, and Crater Lake.

Area is a model of an accessible wilderness region. There are numerous walking huts, a wide range of day and overnight walks through the mountains, a road to the edges of Dove Lake which lies in the shadow of Cradle Mountain.

Accommodation
*Plenty of excellent accommodation. Hostel, hotels, lodges, and self contained apartments, cabins and cottages.
*Advance bookings are recommended all year.

Key Attractions

  • The jagged contours of Cradle Mountain epitomise the feel of a wild landscape, while ancient rainforest and alpine heathlands, buttongrass and stands of colourful deciduous beech provide a range of environments to explore
  • View, Icy streams cascading out of rugged mountains, stands of ancient pines mirrored in the still waters of glacial lakes and a wealth of wildlife ensure there is always something to captivate you.
  • The park covers more than 1260 square kilometres with stunning gorges, lakes, peaks, moors, and a vast variety of wildlife.
  • The area includes Mt Ossa. Tasmania’s highest mountain, and Lake St Clair, Australia’s deepest freshwater lake.
  • Cradle is the starting point for the world-famous Overland Track, a magnificent 6 day walk that will take you through the heart of some of the finest mountain terrain.
  • If you are interested in the natural history of the park, you’ll enjoy the displays and interpretation at the Visitor Centre, which you pass as you travel towards Dove Lake.
  • Shorter day walks from Cradle Mountain explore the World Heritage Area, with its glaciated crags and lakes, wildlife and rare alpine flora.

Cradle Mountain Tasmania is certainly a place for nature lovers, outdoors people, walking enthusiasts, wildlife watchers, adventurers.

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