Enjoy a complimentary night at The Louise with The Arkaba Walk
Indulge with an outback walking, wilderness and wine experience on two special departure dates in June 2019.
Join our four-day Wild Bush Luxury experience on the Arkaba Walk and travel on one of two dedicated departures, Thursday 13 or Wednesday 26 June 2019 and receive a night at The Louise with a four-course dinner at Appellation destination restaurant in the Barossa Valley wine country with our compliments. This property is one of the Luxury Lodges of Australia collection members.
See it at its best. You’ll love the carpet of green across Arkaba’s spectacular topography, painted so beautifully by Hans Heysen, where locals know that the temperatures are absolutely perfect for walking in winter.
Departure Dates
Valid for travel on two dedicated Arkaba Walk departures only:
Option 1:
13 – 17 June 2019
Arkaba Walk – Thursday 13 June, three nights
The Louise – Sunday 16 June 2019 one night
Option 2:
26 – 30 June 2019
Arkaba Walk – Wednesday 26 June, three nights
The Louise – Saturday 29 June 2019
Price
$2900 per person, twin-share with transfers from Adelaide.
This offer represents a saving of $1,500 per couple.
$2400 per person, twin-share for self-drivers.
This offer represents a saving of $1,300 per couple.
What’s Included
The Arkaba Walk is redefining the classic Aussie ‘bush walk’, adding luxury touches to a four-day private hike in the Flinders Ranges. Framed by the rugged wall of Wilpena Pound and the red-hued ridges of the Elder Range, Arkaba is one of Australia’s most accessible outback experiences. Covering around 45km over three walking days through an ever-changing landscape on a private wilderness sanctuary.
Your fully guided and hosted Wild Bush Luxury experience on the Arkaba Walk includes:
- One way flight from Adelaide Airport to the Flinders Ranges (Hawker)
- Two night’s swag camping at wilderness camps on our signature star beds
- One night accommodation at Arkaba Homestead
- All gourmet meals, beverages and trail snacks
- Support vehicle for transporting your main luggage throughout walk
- Provision of a suitable hydration backpack with plenty of room for your lunch, camera and personal items
- Scenic road transfer from Arkaba to the Barossa Valley with lunch on the way
Your stay with our friends at The Louise in the Barossa Valley is with our compliments and includes:
- One night in a Stonewell Suite featuring a spa tub, gas-log fireplace, outdoor rain shower and vineyard views
- Four-course dinner at award-winning Appellation restaurant with wine pairings for two
- Deluxe continental breakfast served in the privacy of your room
- Complimentary mini-bar
- Road transfer departing by 11am to Adelaide city or airport
View the full Arkaba Walk guided walking itinerary here.
Book
To book your Outback Walking, Wilderness and Wine experience, please call (+61) 2 9571 6399 to speak to a Wild Bush Luxury specialist. Offer subject to availability.
Enjoy a creekside massage treatment on day three of The Arkaba Walk, in South Australia’s spectacular Flinders Ranges.
After two days walking between campsites and sleeping directly under a million stars, learning so much about the landscape, thanks to The Arkaba’s expert guides, we expect you will be feeling refreshed and rejuvenated, however, Wild Bush Luxury is taking it to the next level, offering a message on your arrival at Arkaba Homestead.
Heightening your experience in this stunning environment with a creekside massage under the River Red Gum trees. Enjoy the chatter of honeyeaters and kookaburras, famous sounds of the Australian bush. This is truly a lifetime experience!
The massages are seasonal and take place in the air-conditioned homestead if the weather is inclement. While advance booking is not essential, it’s recommended to ensure availability and avoid disappointment. Prices are from $50 – $120. Go on, treat yourself…
Find out more about booking you creekside massage here.
View the itinerary and booking details for The Arkaba Walk here
Last week was an incredibly exciting one for the team on The Arkaba Walk, with confirmation of what were once extinct Brush Tailed Possums (or Virlda in Adnyamathanha).
Captured by one of the conservation cameras at the wildlife viewing hide, the blurry (and furry!) guy in the bottom right is being watched by a thirsty kangaroo.
All around us at the Great Walks of Australia we are fortunate to work with women from so many backgrounds, across so many areas of the business – from operations and management, to marketing and reservations, guides and hosts… and more. They are inspiring and adventurous – and today is about celebrating them all on International Women’s Day 2019.
Meet Sue Badyari, CEO World Expeditions Travel Group
Great Walks of Australia product member: Classic Larapinta Trek in Comfort by Australian Walking Holidays
An extensive traveller herself, Sue is responsible for the operations of small group adventure tours all over the world. She believes that the most authentic travel experiences occur when travellers get off the beaten track. Her main priority is to develop tourism that goes hand in hand with the local community and protects the natural environment. Responsible and sustainable travel is core to her philosophy and is embedded into all aspects of the group’s activities.
This year the company will have more women guides leading their small group adventures and more dedicated women only departures than ever before.
Working her way up through the company, the group has been under Sue’s inspiring leadership since 1999, growing from a single brand company to a multi-brand operator and distributor of travel products. She has been the driving force behind its many achievements, including:
- Establishing Australia’s first Charity Challenge with the Fred Hollows Foundation
- Developing the World Expeditions’ domestic brand, Australian Walking Holidays and creating the award winning semi-permanent campsites on the Larapinta Trail
- Acquiring Tasmanian Expeditions and UK based Sherpa Expeditions and establishing the UTracks self-guided travel division
- Conducting the negotiations and due diligence for purchasing Adventure South New Zealand (2010); Trail Journeys (2017) and the Blue Mountains Adventure Travel Company (2018)
- Becoming the first-ever commercial operator of the full Nepal 1700km traverse of the Great Himalaya Trail (recognised worldwide as an outstanding operational achievement) and over-seeing the establishment a network of permanent campsites in the Everest and Annapurna regions
- Developing the World Expeditions Community Project Travel program and establishing the World Expeditions Foundation, which became a pivotal fundraising portal in the wake of the devastating Nepal earthquakes in 2015.
In recognition of her pioneering work in adventure travel, Sue is a regular speaker at international tourism and travel events, including the IIPT World Symposium (Johannesburg, South Africa), NZ Adventure Travel Trade Association event (Auckland, NZ), Global Eco Tourism Conference Asia/Pacific (Sydney, Australia). Travel media regularly seek comment from Sue about issues pertaining to the adventure travel industry.
Under Sue’s leadership, World Expeditions offers a flexible work environment to enable parents with children to continue to work and to progress with their careers. Evidence of the long term retention, progression and satisfaction at World Expeditions can be seen by the proportion of employees who have reached 10+ years of service to the organisation.
World Expeditions is Australia’s longest established adventure travel company and offers more than 500 stand-alone itineraries, which are meticulously designed for those travellers who want to take the ‘paths less travelled’. Their member product in the Great Walks of Australia collection is the Classic Larapinta Trek in Comfort by Australian Walking Holidays.
Coming up in the first week of April is the Sustainable Trails Conference to be held in Marlborough, New Zealand.
Our Great Walks of Australia CEO, Gina Woodward will present on Great Walks of Australia – What makes a great walk and how successful have we been? and will participate in a panel discussion on What do we need to plan for? Changing nature of trails in Australia and NZ.
The events incorporates presentations and discussion on both walking/running and cycling/mountain biking trails. The primary themes are around:
1. Creating experiences, not trails
2. Making trails count — how to attract investment
3. Governance, management and good planning
4. Selling the experience — innovation in marketing
To register for this event, please do so here through TRC Tourism before 15 March 2019.
Tasmania is a truly stunning place to explore on foot – that’s why we have five walks in our most southern state of Australia – and there are certainly five reasons (and more) to join us there soon on one of the Great Walks of Australia.
- Each month offers a different delight for walkers whether that be watching humpback whales migrate in November, seeing the forest ablaze with wildflowers in December or swimming in warmer ocean waters after a mountain walk in February
- Abundance of wildlife including the rare Tasmanian Devil and an island full of wombats, birds, wallabies, kangaroos, geese and more… see the Bennett’s Wallaby, Forester Kangaroo, Pademelons and white-bellied sea eagles. Our Maria Island Walk is on a UNESCO world heritage listed island, the site of important wildlife conservation programs.
- 5 of our 12 Great Walks are located in Tasmania – our terrain and climate are just great for hiking
- Explore the Edge of the World when you hit our newest trail on the Three Capes Lodge Walk, next stop Antarctica
- Passionate guides bring our story to life – many of them are local to Tasmania, care deeply about their beautiful backyard and can’t wait to share this with you on a walk
- Food and wine… wow. Our sparkling white wines and our Pinot Noir are world renowned. You’ll enjoy many a fabulous tipple on the Great Walks and you will have certainly earnt that end of day drink. Our fresh produce, clean air and water, mean that our food offering is rather lovely too – you may enjoy fresh fish or oysters on your next walk
- Easy to access – our walks depart from pickups in either Launceston or Hobart, both great gateway cities with major airports and direct flights from mainland Australia
- Eco lodges that rival the best in the world – from the timeless architecture of Friendly Beaches Lodge on the Freycinet Experience Walk, the stunning timber design flowing through to the ocean at Bay of Fires Lodge, or the new mind-blowing designs on the Three Capes Lodge Walk, this is a more than comfortable way to walk
- Our walks in Tasmania operate primarily from October through to May each year, with some walks also offering winter departures on select dates – what a way to experience the true meaning of seasons
- Our Overland Track is an iconic walk that’s on the bucket list of hikers all around the world. Explore it with us on the Cradle Mountain Huts Walk…
Ok, so there are 10 reasons and we could just keep on going… so get in touch and we’ll see you in Tassie soon!