Australia’s east coast packs an astonishing range of birds and wildlife into a single stretch of country, and this 17-day tour follows it from the steamy tropics of Far North Queensland all the way to the temperate forests around Sydney. You’ll move from the Great Barrier Reef and the ancient Daintree Rainforest, through the cool crater-lake country of the Atherton Tablelands, down to the Gondwana rainforests of the Brisbane hinterland, and on to the sandstone canyons of the Blue Mountains.
Along the way you’ll search for some of the continent’s most charismatic birds — the towering Southern Cassowary, the extraordinary Superb and Albert’s Lyrebirds, a remarkable cast of bowerbirds and riflebirds, and the seabird colonies of the Great Barrier Reef — as well as iconic mammals like the platypus, tree-kangaroos, pademelons, koalas and wombats. Indigenous-guided walks, heritage villages and the galleries and museums of Brisbane and Sydney add a rich cultural thread throughout.
The tour follows directly on from our Uluru to Darwin Solar Eclipse tour, so you can combine the two into one grand crossing of the continent — or join fresh in Cairns for the east-coast leg alone.
Please note that this trip is priced in Australian Dollar, rather than US Dollar.
Please note that while the general itinerary is set, hotels and daily activities may slightly differ depending on circumstances.
