- Group welcome dinner
- Historic Wellshot Hotel, Ilfracombe
- Camden Park Sunset Tour and Dinner
- Australian Age of Dinosaurs Tour
- Waltzing Matilda Centre, Winton
- Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame Stockman’s experience
- Qantas Founders Museum including the guided Airpark tour
- Smithy's Outback Dinner & Show
- Luminescent Longreach Light & Sound Show
- Expert Savannah driver-guide
PRE OR POST TOUR STAY
There is the option to extend your stay in Longreach before or after the tour. The cost of the additional night/s of stay applies. Ask our travel team about this option.
DAY 1
Arrive Longreach.
Your exciting outback discovery begins! Arriving to Longreach, there is a group transfer from Longreach airport where you will be met by our local representative.
Lunch is in town and there’s a brief orientation tour of Longreach. Come together for a relaxed dinner tonight.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
SNAPSHOT – WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Arrival group airport transfer
- Brief town orientation tour
- Welcome Dinner
SPECIAL NOTES
For a smaller group size a group dinner on site at glamping site may not be possible and the alternative will be dinner in town.
DAY 2
Longreach & Ilfracombe Touring
This morning, travel the short distance to Ilfracombe for lunch at the historic Wellshot Hotel and time to explore. Founded in 1891, Ilfracombe was a transport hub for Wellshot Station, which at the time held the largest number of sheep on any station in the world. After lunch, there's free time in town or relax back at the glamping site for a few hours.
Later in the afternoon experience the warm hospitality of local graziers, with a visit to Camden Park Station followed by sunset drinks and a dinner hosted by the local station owners at their property.
Meals: Continental Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
SNAPSHOT – WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Ilfracombe town visit and lunch at historic Wellshot Hotel
- Camden Park Station visit including sunset drinks and dinner
DAY 3
Longreach Highlights
Witness a totally different way of schooling at Longreach School of Distance Education. Tour one of the largest classrooms in the world! “Imagine a classroom more than twice the size of Victoria, where the playground is as vast as the outback and the partnership between home and school is legendary."
Next, a highlight visit to the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame; explore the newly renovated 5 themed Galleries. A journey for all your senses featuring the birth of a nation through the eyes of the Australian stockman. A fully immersive cinematic experience showcasing virtual and real footage across a 16m screen, get in touch with the essence of the Australian Stockman. Bring your stockman’s experience to life at the Stockman’s Life LIVE Show. See the stories and skills that define what it means to be a stockman.
Tonight we also visit QANTAS Founders newest attraction, the incredible Luminescent Longreach Sound & Light Show and dinner in town.
Meals: Continental Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
SNAPSHOT – WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Longreach School of Distance Education
- Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame
- Luminescent Longreach Sound & Light Show.
DAY 4
Longreach – Winton - Longreach
Head west to the land of the dinosaurs to visit Winton for a full day out to the central area of Queensland that abounds with early Australian folklore and history. It was in this area that Banjo Paterson wrote his famous poem about the swagman and the jolly jumbuck and “Waltzing Matilda” was first heard in a pub in Winton.
Exploring Winton features a visit to The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Musuem including the more recently opened Dinosaur Canyon. The museum is home to the world’s largest collection of Australian dinosaur fossils, and not surprisingly, it is also the site of Australia’s largest fossil preparation laboratory. Join a guided tour of the laboratory and collection room, and Dinosaur Canyon.
Winton is also home to the Waltzing Matilda Centre, and we make a visit to learn the story behind Australia’s unofficial national anthem; the only museum dedicated to a song. We then make our way back to Longreach and tonight, the group is escorted to dine out in town at a local restaurant.
Meals: Continental Breakfast, Morning Tea, Lunch, Dinner
SNAPSHOT – WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History visit and guided tour
- Waltzing Matilda Centre
DAY 5 MONDAY
Longreach Touring including QANTAS Founders Museum
Today enjoy the world-class QANTAS Founders Museum, eloquently telling the story of the founding of Qantas. View marvellous interpretive and interactive exhibits then join a guided Airpark Tour. Take your time to uncover some national treasures, such as the historic 1922 QANTAS hangar. The historic photographs, memorabilia and multimedia displays bring alive the inspirational stories of one of the world’s pioneering airlines.
This afternoon there is some free time.
Late afternoon we unwind on the Drover’s Sunset Cruise with tasty on-board nibbles followed by a two-course table service dinner under the stars at Smithy’s Outback Dinner & Show.
Meals: Continental Breakfast, Morning Tea, Lunch, Dinner
SNAPSHOT – WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- QANTAS Founders Museum
- Drover’s Sunset Cruise
- Smithy’s Outback Dinner & Show
DAY 6
Longreach. Home Time.
After an earlier breakfast we travel to the Historic Rosebank Station for a picturesque morning tea and stories of yesteryear. Originally settled as a sheep and cattle station some 100 years ago, Rosebank was famously visited in 1959 by Princess Alexandra and Princess Alice. The Princesses stayed in a specially built wing, fittingly named the ‘Princess Wing.’
Your outback adventure comes to a close with many memorable stories and insights to this small town with a very big story. There is a group transfer to the airport to meet the flight to Brisbane.
Meals: Continental Breakfast, Morning Tea
SNAPSHOT – WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Historic Rosebank Station
- Group transfer to Longreach Airport
Itineraries may be subject to change, due to circumstances outside of our control. If there is any itinerary change prior to departure of significance we aim to inform you prior to travel. Itinerary changes while on tour will be informed by your tour leader/guide while on tour.
