Best of the South West Tour – 8 Days
Perth – Margaret River – Pemberton – Albany – Esperance – Kalgoorlie – Hyden – Perth
Tour Map
Tour Overview
Services Included
Transport & Accommodation
Transport in an air-conditioned bus or 4WD with a maximum of 12 passengers per vehicle
Accommodation during the the tour 7x in in Hotel/Motel
Entry Fees
Entry fees National Parks, Busselton Jetty, wine tasting with lunch, Cape Leeuwin, Tree Top Walk, Kalgoorlie Museum, Super Pit Tour, Wave Rock, Camel Farm
Extras
Comprehensive information kit in vehicles
Meals
Meals (7x B – Breakfast / 1x L – Lunch)
Free drinking water
Languages
English speaking guiding
German speaking guiding
French speaking guiding and other languages on request only
24/7 English/German/French emergency assistance
ITINERARY
Day 1 Perth – Margaret River
On our drive towards Margaret River we pass Mandurah and Bunbury. In Busselton we will visit the longest timber piled jetty in the southern hemisphere. We then start exploring the Margaret River Wine region, which is one of the most renowned wine areas of Australia. Based on its Mediterranean climate, its outstanding wine, its relaxed atmosphere and excellent surf zones Margaret River has become quickly a very popular holiday destination. We have the opportunity to enjoy a delicious wine tasting at a renowned winery followed by lunch. Back on the coast, we admire the fascinating Canal Rocks. Drive to the hotel in Margaret River.
Accommodation: Stay, Margaret River (Breakfast / Lunch)
Day 2 Margaret River – Pemberton
Today we visit the township of Margaret River, followed by another delicious wine tasting. Our tour then continues to Australia’s most south-westerly point, Cape Leeuwin. This is the point where the Indian and Southern Ocean meet. From here the nearest landmass is Africa to the west and Antarctica to the south. After our visit to picturesque Hamelin Bay we travel along the coast of the Southern Ocean through farmland into the Karri Forest region of Pemberton/Walpole.
Accommodation: Pemberton Hotel, Pemberton (Breakfast)
Day 3 Pemberton – Albany
After today’s breakfast, courageous visitors will have the opportunity to climb a spiral ladder to the platform of the “Gloucester Tree” in Pemberton. The Valley of the Giants, a section of forest appropriately named for its huge trees, is our next destination. Tree Top Walk offers an amazing bird’s eye view to this window of the past. Much of the vegetation in this region is unique to the southwest of Western Australia. In the afternoon we will visit William Bay National Park with its bizarre Elephant Rocks and popular swimming beach Green Pool. The colours of the ocean and coastline are beyond words and will inspire you. We reach Albany, Western Australia’s first settlement, in the evening.
Accommodation: Quality Suites Banksia Gardens, Albany (Breakfast)
Day 4 Albany – Esperance
A City tour and the magnificent panorama view from Mt. Clarence overlooking King George Sound, where the first settlers landed in 1826, let you realize Albany’s importance to Western Australia. Afterwards we will be exploring “Natural Bridge and The Gap” in Torndirrup National Park. The tour continues with a drive through farmland in the Stirling Range. The many different varieties of plants originating in the Stirling Range are mainly due to its insular location. This mountain range is a climatic island and the plain is typical for its dry and warm weather conditions. If time and weather conditions permit we will have the opportunity for some hiking towards Bluff Knoll, the highest peak of the Stirling Ranges. Late afternoon we will arrive in Esperance.
Accommodation: Hospitality Motel, Esperance (Breakfast)
Day 5 Esperance – Kalgoorlie
The local Aborigines called this region “Gabba-Kyle“, which means “the place where the water is shaped as a boomerang.“ You will enjoy the scenic Great Ocean Drive with its highlights Rotary Lookout, Twilight Beach and Pink Lake. We are then visiting Cape Le Grand National Park with its scenic, turquoise bays and extended white beaches. Leaving the gorgeous Southern Ocean behind us, there is still 400km of sealed road in front of us! At Norseman starts the Eyre Highway which crosses the 1,500 km wide Nullarbor Plain towards Adelaide. However, we are heading north and will eventually arrive at the so-called “Golden Mile” in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Accommodation: Hospitality Motel, Kalgoorlie (Breakfast)
Day 6 Kalgoorlie
After a sight-seeing tour, a short visit to the Kalgoorlie Museum completes our knowledge of the past of Australia’s richest gold mine. Located 10 minutes north of town is the original corrugated iron shed and bush ring that was once the Two-Up school. Two-up is a traditional Australian gambling game that is periodically still played here. From Menzies, a former gold mining town, a dusty track brings at to Lake Ballard. The highlight is the amazing and not to be expected sculpture park spread out on the dry salt plains of the lake. The artwork is a collection of 51 different steel sculptures by Antony Gormley. They stand against the dramatic backdrop of the lake’s dry salt bed. Back in Kalgoorlie the rest of the day is leisure time.
Accommodation: Hospitality Motel, Kalgoorlie (Breakfast)
Day 7 Kalgoorlie – Hyden
In the course of the morning a visit to the mine site “Super Pit” – Australia’s biggest open cut gold mine – enables us to capture impressions of the unbelievable ratio and dimensions on the Australian continent. Now we start to realize the differences of gold mining of the past and present. By tracing the footsteps of the first gold seekers we will be reaching Coolgardie and Southern Cross and leaving Western Australia’s Golden Mile. From here we will be following the track of the Emu Fence Road in a southerly direction to Hyden.
Accommodation: Wave Rock Motel, Hyden (Breakfast)
Day 8 Hyden – Perth
After breakfast, we will visit the famous and astounding “breakers wave” the ‘Wave Rock’. There is enough time to explore and learn about the story of this unbelievable natural wonder. Afterwards we drive through the wide-stretched West Australian wheat belt to reach York at about lunchtime. A quaint short stroll in the oldest inland settlement of W.A. will take you back to the time of the first settlers. The old well-maintained and renovated houses boasting their original facades bring forth still today the atmosphere of the pioneer’s time. A visit to a Camel farm is another highlight where you will get valuable information and details about the history and modern use of the single-humped desert ships here in Australia. After an enjoyable travel back to Perth, this tour concludes at your hotel.
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