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Guided walking staying in farm accommodation - 7 days / 6 nights |
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| Flinders Ranges - HEYSEN TRAIL TREK: 7 days / 6 nights | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Accommodation: Twin/shared rooms in
comfortable farm accommodation, often shearers quarters, with shared facilities
and welcoming, friendly hosts. Fitness level: the tour is graded easy/moderate. Max group size: 10 Departs from Adelaide with a minimum of 2 walkers on the following dates: |
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| Itinerary: Heysen Trail Tek in Flinders Ranges | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DAY 1: After leaving
Adelaide, you will travel to the Flinders Ranges via Port Wakefield,
Port Augusta, Quorn and Hawker, visiting the Wadlata Outback Centre en
route. Lunch is supplied and late in the day you will arrive at your
accommodation on a large pastoral property near Blinman. DAY 2: Today walk through the Bunyeroo Gorge, with its permanent water supply, on your way to the Wilcolo Valley giving you stunning views of Wilpena Pound’s Eastern Wall. Day 3 Drive to Aroona Ruins, where Sir Hans Heysen stayed on painting trips, and follow the Heysen Trail as it heads east over the Red Hill lookout and then turns south towards Brachina Creek. The views towards Wilpena are superb! Then follow beautiful Yuluna Creek back to Aroona. Day 4 Today visit the historic copper mining town of Blinman, and drive through the Glass Gorge. In the afternoon follow a beautiful creek to Blinman Pools and visit the Parachilna Gorge. Day 5 Walk in the crater like formation of Wilpena Pound, a natural amphitheatre ringed by saw tooth peaks. Fromy our lunch spot, Tanderra Saddle, gain spectacular views over the Flinders Ranges. Day 6 A choice of itineraries - perhaps to Wilkawillina Gorge and explore the property you are staying on or to the Aboriginal rock carvings in Chambers Gorge. Day 7 Today it is time to drive home via Arkaroo Rock to look at Aboriginal cave paintings and the Southern Flinders Ranges, providing lunch en route. The scheduled time of return to Adelaide is approximately 5.00pm |
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Six nights twin/share accommodation in comfortable farm accommodation |
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The
mountain country which makes up the Flinders Ranges National Park,
located about 460 kms north of Adelaide, was an important area for Aboriginal
nomads long before the arrival of Europeans. The relative profusion of waterholes, vegetation and game
contrasts starkly with the surrounding semi-arid plains. In the
1930s
the renowned Australian artist Sir Hans Heysen captured the enchantment
and beauty of the area leading to a modest influx of adventurous
travellers. Today, Flinders is probably Australia's grandest
National Park with unique Wilpena Pound at its hub. 
The Flinders Ranges are traversed by the Heysen Trail, a long
distance walking trail stretching over 1,500 km through South
Australia's best walking country. The most interesting and scenic
sections are selected for the walks, visiting historic mines and
settlers' ruins, Aboriginal rock carvings and cave paintings. You will
visit Wilpena Pound, historic Blinman and the ruins of Kanyaka Homestead
and will walk through deep gorges of red quartzite, under towering
bluffs and to hidden springs and rock pools. Sightings of red kangaroos,
euros, emus and flocks of colourful parrots are common. Accommodation is
in historic, outback, pastoral property and you will walk without packs
and return to soft beds, hot showers and good food each night.