Arrive Cairns Airport and transfer to accommodation at Paradise Village, Palm Cove. This beach side resort is set idyllically with a golden sand and palm fringed beach at your doorstep.

Tour of Great Barrier Reef. Meet in reception around 7.45am (time will be confirmed) for the coach connection to the jetty where you'll board the boat. Travel to the outer reef and snorkel and swim amongst the fish and coral. Late afternoon arrival at Paradise Village.

Take a morning flight to Alice Springs in Central Australia and check in to The Diplomat Hotel. Enjoy an afternoon tour of Standley Chasm and Simpsons Gap, clefts in the imposing MacDonnell Ranges to the west. The tour concludes at Anzac Hill where panoramic views of Alice Springs are afforded.

An early rise for the transfer by road to Uluru (Ayers Rock). Located some 450 kilometres from Alice Springs, the world's greatest monolith rises 348 metres above the desert floor. Arrive early afternoon at campsite and after lunch visit The Olgas, a cluster of massive rounded rocks. Take a walk through the 'Valley of the Winds' before the spectacular sunset viewing of Uluru. Dinner around the campfire and camping accommodation under the stars conclude the day's program.

$ 924.00 pp (twin or double share).
$ 1122.00 pp (single supplement).

Tour of Great Barrier Reef.
Four nights accommodation (motel and camping).
Tour of Ayers Rock, The Olgas and Stanley Chasm.
All breakfasts, lunches (not day 4) and dinner (day 3).
Transfers.
GST.
* The above package assumes delegates would fly into Cairns before the first day. We would arrange accommodation at Palm Cove, on the northern beaches 20 minutes from Cairns. The cost does not include air-fares from Cairns to Alice Springs or Ayers Rock to Melbourne.
 

Depart Melbourne at 8am and travel to the west through Geelong, the state's second largest city. Not long past Geelong the ocean comes into view and at Anglesea a stop would be made to view the kangaroos that frequent the golf course. Continue onto Lorne where the dual mix of the ocean and the Otway Ranges is breathtaking. Lunch would be taken at Lavers Hill and before the drive through to the rainforest at Melba Gully then to the Shipwreck Coast. The afternoon would feature the coastal rock formations of Loch Ard Gorge, Twelve Apostles and The Arch before arriving in Warrnambool.

After breakfast travel across to Tower Hill, an extinct volcano and now a State Park. A walk through the park reveals koalas in generous numbers in the gum trees. Late morning continue on to Warrayure Homestead where lunch will be taken. There will also be a shearing demonstration and tour of the property which will provide an insight, life on the land. Late afternoon transfer through to Halls Gap, the major town at the heart of the breathtaking Grampians mountain range.

Depart Halls Gap and travel through the Grampians taking in some of the most spectacular scenery the state has to offer. Included in these are The Balconies, Mt Difficult Lookout and The Jaws of Death. A visit would also be made Mt Zumsteins to meet the local kangaroos before transferring through to Ballarat and Sovereign Hill. A guided underground mine tour would follow the welcome then some free time would be available to explore the park. Sovereign Hill is a recreation of Ballarat's first ten years following the discovery of gold there in 1851. Adjourn to the Charlie Napier Hotel for dinner before experiencing the sound and light show, 'Blood on the Southern Cross'. The show brilliantly recreates the events that lead to Australia's only civil war, the Eureka Stockade on Sunday December 3rd 1854.

$594.00 per person, based on a minimum of 10 people (twin/double share).
$682.00 per person, based on a minimum of 10 people (single share).

Deluxe mini-bus transport.
Two nights accommodation plus breakfasts.
Lunch on all days.
Shearing demonstration and farm visit at Warrayure Homestead.
Tour of Melba Gully, Port Campbell National Park, Tower Hill,
Grampians and Sovereign Hill.
Entry fees to Sovereign Hill and Blood on the Southern Cross.
Dinner on the final night at Sovereign Hill.
Guide.
GST.