Most of South Australia’s life radiates gently from arty capital city Adelaide, dwindling as it hits the bone dry land beyond. This orange desert is stony and with regular temperatures sitting around 48 degrees, unforgiving, but underneath lie mineral veins on which tiny townships suckle, air conditioners blaring. If you make it beyond the desert you’re rewarded with the many hazy colours of the Flinders Rangers. But all this dust and empty horizon is made up for by the bounty around Adelaide. The Barossa Valley, one of Australia’s most rewarding wine growing regions and the sea, full of tuna and lobsters makes for hearty lifestyles and the Adelaide Festival draws a culture crowd that stops the city from relaxing totally into guesthouse comfort.
Come to South Australia for...
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Once Adelaide’s main attraction was its religious architecture, church spires create pulse-like spikes across the skyline, but it is now mostly lauded for its arts scene. The Adelaide Festival and Fringe draw crowds of artists and spectators and...
Go for: Festivals, Markets, Walking
4 experiences:
Adelaide Central Market, Adelaide Festival of Arts, WOMADelaide, The Yurrebilla Trail.
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Even in this day and age when information is so easily accessible, some people still think that anywhere you go in Australia you can see koalas in the...
Go for: Wildlife
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The Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, a seven hour drive north of Adelaide, is right out in the middle of nowhere in the Australian Outback. Arkaroola’s...
Go for: Astronomy
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What is it about ballooning and Australian wine regions? The neat rows of the vineyards are certainly picturesque and resemble an earthy tartan when...
Go for: Flying, Gliding & Ballooning, Visitor Attractions
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This region is known nationally and internationally for it's big, opulent reds, especially Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignons, but it also produces some...
Go for: Wine Regions
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Lying 90m under the sun scorched red dust of the Nullarbor lie some of the worlds largest underground cave systems, spreading for mile after mile of...
Go for: Caves & Caving, Extreme Challenge
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