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Flavours of the Outback - (Melbourne to Melbourne) - 4 Days/3 Nights
Day 1
Executive car transfer from your hotel in Melbourne. Depart Moorabbin Airport Melbourne, over flying Melbourne city enroute to Mildura and Kars Station 50nm SE of Broken Hill. Enjoy lunch in Mildura at the TV chef, and local personality, Stefano de Pieri’s Café 27 Deakin Street, sampling terrific local produce and wine before our short 45 minute flight to Kars. Free time to wander around and visit the local school house museum on Kars, after a private tour of the property by Fred Hughes, the owner. Pre-dinner drinks in the courtyard followed by a traditional Aussie barbecue. Relax and enjoy the outback stars.
Day 2
Depart Kars after breakfast and head into Broken Hill for refueling. Tour Broken Hill Royal Flying Doctor Museum. Then it is on to the world renowned Prairie Hotel in the town of Parachilna, population 5, perhaps sampling an Australian mixed grill, complete with kangaroo, emu and camel – not to be missed. We spend the afternoon taking a private tour of the Brachina Gorge - a chance to see rock formations up to 600 million years old! John O’Dea performs for us tonight, an award winning Australian Country singer/songwriter.
Day 3
We depart The Prairie after breakfast for Orroroo overflying Wilpena Pound, for a fun day spent watching and learning about sheep farming in this remote area. Sheep dog work and even a shearing demonstration are part of today’s outback experience. Then it’s off to North Bundaleer which offers a secluded and indulgent homestead experience, with kangaroos and wonderful bird life in a natural Blue Gum environment. Dinner is a relaxed and ‘slow food’ 5 course affair, before retiring to bed in this grand and majestic homestead.
Day 4
After a leisurely breakfast we start on our route back to Melbourne. Lunch is a seafood odyssey at Pippies by the Bay at Warrnambool before our last sector to Moorabbin Airport along the Great Ocean Road taking in a bird’s eye view of the iconic Twelve Apostles. Executive car transfer to your hotel
Flight Times (Approx): Total: 7 hours 50 minutes
Day 1
Melbourne to Mildura: 1 hour 45 minutes
Mildura to Kars Station: 45 minutes
Day 2
Kars Station to Broken Hill: 10 minutes
Broken Hill to Parachilna: 1 hour
Day 3
Parachilna to Orroroo: 45 minutes
Orroroo to North Bundaleer: 10 minutes
Day 4
North Bundaleer to Warrnambool: 2 hour 15 minutes
Warrnambool to Melbourne: 1 hour
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