DARWIN TO BROOME - 11d
via Kakadu and Gibb River
Road (Dry season 4WD route, May-October)
Day 1
DARWIN TO LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK (300 km)
Drive south to the national park that Darwin
folk rave about. Overnight accommodation in Batchelor. With your
4WD you can take the (in parts bumpy) circular route.
 Wangi
Falls, Florence Falls, maybe the Lost City!
Tomorrow a little bit of retracing steps to
reach Kakadu: see the alternative.
Day 2
BATCHELOR TO KAKADU NATIONAL PARK (300 km)
Drive along the Arnhem Highway past Humpty Doo
to Kakadu
See
Ubirr and Nourlangie, the world's greatest repository rock
paintings.
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Day 3
KAKADU NATIONAL PARK
The best 4WD tracks are south of Cooinda. Check
locally on conditions of the tracks to Jim Jim Falls and Twin
Falls and Gunlom (Waterfall Creek)
Day 4
KAKADU NATIONAL PARK
Take
a bushwalk.
Day 5
Drive along the Kakadu Highway to Katherine.
See
the old mining town of Pine Creek and the colonial style pub where
frontier times are still alive in the characters you meet there.
See
Edith Falls, 45 km before reaching Katherine.
Day 6
An
early morning cruise of the Katherine Gorge to experience the best
wildlife
More
adventurous travellers can walk the trails, canoe and enjoy the
Outback at its grandest
Take
in a corroboree at Springvale Station
Day 7
KATHERINE TO KUNUNURRA (513 km)
Drive along the Victoria Highway to Timber Creek
and Gregory and Keep River National Parks (walks and lookouts).
Cross the border into Western Australia to the town of Kununurra
on the Ord River.
Day 8
KUNUNURRA, BUNGLE BUNGLES AND EL QUESTRO (100
km)
After a flight over the Bungle Bungles drive on
to pick up the Gibb River Road, a 667 km 4WD cattle road that
links outback stations to Derby and on to El Questro Station, a
million acre cattle station and wilderness park.
Early
morning flight with Sling Air (flights depart 6am and 9 am)
Visit
Emma Gorge (40 minute walk)
Day 9
EL QUESTRO TO MOUNT ELIZABETH STATION (280 km)
Ford the Pentecost River, then travel though the
heart of the Kimberleys up Gregory's Jump Up, Jack's Waterhole and
Rollie's Jump Up. Remote travelling with magnificent scenery.
Overnight at Mt Elizabeth Station, 30 km off the road.
Day 10
MOUNT ELIZABETH STATION TO DERBY
Drive to Derby
Barnett
River Gorge (Aboriginal Paintings)
Manning
Gorge (strenuous walk)
Adcock
Gorge (swimming)
Windjama
Gorge
Tunnel
Creek national park
Day 11
DERBY TO BROOME (223 km)
Drive on to Broome with time to enjoy
sightseeing
Old
Broome
Cable
Beach
Alternative
Day 1 for Darwin to Broome
DARWIN TO WILDMAN (170 km)/KAKADU
A beautiful reserve off the Arnhem Highway with
abundant birdlife, saltwater crocs, paperbark and monsoon forests.
Alternative Day 2 for Darwin
to Broome
WILDMAN/KAKADU
See
Ubirr and Nourlangie, the world's greatest repository rock
paintings.
Do
a cruise on Yellow Waters Billabong, looking for saltwater crocs
and watching flocks of birds.
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DARWIN TO CAIRNS - 8d
Across the top
Day 1 (see
the alternative day 1)
DARWIN TO LITCHFIELD/BATCHELOR (300km)
Drive along sealed road via Batchelor or the
more beautiful but rougher unsealed Cox Peninsula Road.
Drive
right up to Wangi Falls for a glistening monsoon forest walk
followed by an unforgettable swim
Another
swim and walk? There is a 2,5km walking trail from the parking lot
to Florence Falls
Short
magnificent walk to the lookout at Tolmer Falls
Overnight
Batchelor
Day 2
BATCHELOR TO KATHERINE
Take
a stop at the gold rush town Pine Creek, just off the Stuart
Highway
Edith
Falls (45 km north of Katherine) part of Nitmiluk national
park--features permanent waterfalls and a large waterhole fringed
by monsoon forests, pandanus and rock walls
Day 3
KATHERINE
Cruise
up the gorge, or paddle a canoe.
Take
a swim at the end of the first gorge and go on land to see the
Aboriginal paintings on the gorge face...painted so high that it
looks as if they had a ladder.
Day 4
KATHERINE TO TENNANT CREEK (643 km)
Stop
at the magical thermal springs at Mataranka. A swim!
Historic
pub at Daly Waters. What do or don't do there, depends a lot on
whether you are the driver.
Tennant
Creek, friendly cattle and mining town
Day 5
TENNANT CREEK TO MOUNT ISA
Day 6
MT ISA TO KURUMBA (500 km)
Through rough stony ranges via Cloncurry then
north to Normanton and Kurumba
Old
Cloncurry
Old
pubs of Normanton
The
Gulf Savannah
Kurumba
on the Gulf of Carpentaria - here you got to try the famous
prawns!
Day 7
NORMANTON TO UNDARA (540km)
Drive via Croydon to Mt Surprise and Undara.
Historic
Croydon, a gold rush town.
All
except the driver could take the Gulflander train from Normantown
to Croydon (toss for it!) where you meet the driver. (Departs
Wednesdays 8.30, arrives 12.00)
Spend
the night in a converted railway carriage at Undara and the
evening round a magnificent fire.
Day 8
UNDARA TO CAIRNS
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Spend the morning at Undara and drive on to
Cairns via Ravenshoe and the Atherton Tablelands.
You
could join breakfast in the bush, taken by horsedrawn carriage.
A
morning tour of the larva tubes formed 190 000 years ago, informed
and entertained by the exceptional Savannah Guides, with every
chance of seeing bush wallabies in rainforest pockets at the
exits.
See
the waterfalls, lakes and rainforest as you drive through the lush
Atherton Tablelands.
Day
1 alternative for Darwin to Cairns
DARWIN TO KAKADU
See
Ubirr and Nourlangie, the world's greatest repository rock
paintings.
Do
a cruise on Yellow Waters Billabong, looking for saltwater crocs
and watching flocks of birds
Day 2 alternative for Darwin
to Cairns
KAKADU TO KATHERINE
Drive along the Kakadu Highway to Katherine.
Do
some bushwalking on the way and see more aboriginal art
See
the old mining town of Pine Creek and the colonial style pub where
frontier times are still alive in the characters you meet there.
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