Group Tours in Australia (Accommodated)
Alice Springs Holidays

Alice Springs Holidays offers “Soft Adventure for the Discerning Traveller” through luxury small group tours around Central Australia. Chris and Naomi Chambers have approx. 27 years combined experience in the Centre, with the last 18 years as proprietors of Alice Springs Holidays specialising in small group holiday experiences in Central Australia. Their highly experienced and trained staff, and tour guides will introduce the outback by experiences with various natural habitats and ecologies, natural history, aboriginal culture and through the impressive beauty and stunning colours of the outback. Our driver/guides are chosen for their bush skills and knowledge not because they can wear a white shirt or polish their shoes.

The modern fleet of luxury 4WD and mini coaches combined with attention to detail and high quality service provides a luxury experience. While still providing that air of adventure with the chance to swim in outback water holes,climb mountains, bush walk or quietly watch nature as it goes about its daily business. Our tours range from ½ day to 10 days duration, and can include anything from luxury camping at a secluded bush campsite beneath the southern night skies, to five star accomodation and black tie dining.

Alice Springs Holidays is the only Soft Adventure company in Central Australia providing Regular Luxury Small Group Bush Experiences so if you are looking for more than an airport transfer or a ride on a bus with 50 other people - give us a call.

Our regular tours are different because:-

Our Nature Based Touring is via The Mereenie Wilderness Area and so Avoiding the Touristy spots and Crowds with Small Groups (max 15 pax) using luxury Accommodation without wasting time by Backtracking over the same roads

Alice Springs Holidays specialises in Luxury Small Group Bush Experiences. Our company’s motto is “Up Market and Off The Beaten Track” - allowing our clients to experience unique and exciting things not available to the general public.

Our regular public departures include - Ayers Rock(Uluru), The Olgas (Kata Tjuta), Kings Canyon(Watarka), Mereenie Wilderness Area, Gosse Bluff(Tnorala), MacDonnell Ranges(Perte Twewerrtetye) and Alice Springs.

Private touring can involve Waite River and Napperby cattle stations, Hermannsburg and Wallace Rockhole Aboriginal Communities, Hartz Range and Mud Tank Gem Fields, exquisite eco systems at Palm Valley and Kathleen Springs and Aboriginal Rock Art at Ewaninga and Wallace Rockhole to name just a few.

Our Tours include spectacular beauty, abundant wildlife and the subtle colours of the Macdonnell Ranges to the sparse environment, bold colours and the impressive monolith of Ayers Rock. The contrasts of the Centre are the key to appreciation and sometimes even love of this unique part of the world.

Experience the outback like no other tour does View the outback through your own eyes, through the eyes of an Aboriginal Painter(Albert Namatjira) and through your camers lens. Which ever way you prefer it will leave you with a lasting impression of this timeless land.

Where meals are provided they include delicious, freshly made homestyle food served on a white table cover accompanied by a glass of chilled wine.

Fixed Date Group Touring

1 Day West MacDonnell Ranges
A full day of exploring Chasms, Gorges and Gaps, of discovering Flowers Bushes and Birds and learning of the Bush Tucker and Legends of this beautiful area

1 Day The Embracing Outback
A full day of experiences on a Central Australian working Cattle Station

3 Day Mereenie Wilderness, Kings Canyon & Ayers Rock
A unique tour of some of Central Australia’s major highlights. See more in 3 days than any other 3 day tour without backtracking and by using the alternative route to Ayers Rock. A brief encounter at a leisurley pace.

4 Day MacDonnell Ranges, Mereenie Wilderness, Kings Canyon & Ayers Rock
An exciting value packed 4 days of Water and Sand, Ridges and Rocks, Wilderness and Wildlife Leave the crowd behind, join a small group of adventurers exploring the outback. Enjoy luxury accommodated touring, friendship, champagne sunset, aboriginal culture, the thrill of nature with it’s colours and uniqueness.

5 Day Spirit of the Outback
This tour includes all the highlights of the 4 days plus the world class, Alice Springs Desert Park. This impressive park represents approximately 70% of the Australian mainland giving an insight as to what is available in the deserts of Australia, complete with the worlds’s largest nocturnal house containing some of the world’s rarest and most endangered animals, the Bilby and Marla to name just two.

8 Day Adelaide to Alice Springs by “The Legendary Ghan Train”, Alice Springs, West MacDonnell Ranges, Mereenie Wilderness, Kings Canyon, Ayers Rock, Palm Valley, Aboriginal Community Tour, Alice Springs Desert Park, etc

9 Day From Sea to the Centre This luxury adventure begins with a visit to Kangaroo Island to enjoy the wildlife andnatural habitats of the unspoilt and tranquil Island. The adventure continues with an overnight journey aboard the Legendary Ghan Train from Adelaide to Alice Springs. upon arrival in the'Alice' the colours and sounds of the outback begin to leave a lasting impression upon our memories, highlighted with our arrival at the base of Ayers Rock (Uluru).

4 Day Accommodated
This tour includes accomodation in Alice Springs, Kings Canyon, and Ayers Rock but the itinerary is freestyle so you can explore at your own pace were ever you want to go.

4 Day Luxury Camping
This tour includes all you need to enjoy the great outdoors, meals, camping equipment and touring with the itinerary free to write your own.

Special Interest Touring

Aboriginal Art
A chance to view and buy art from the artists in their homelands to see different styles and to experience the land that inspires them

Aboriginal Culture
Of the 30 odd different languages that frequent Alice Springs all have their own laws, traditions, and legends. Some of these groups welcome outsiders into their groups some don’t. Some have embraced western culture and some not. But all are proud of their heritage, learn at first hand the some of the many facets of aboriginal culture

Cattle Stations
Take 2 days and join in with the activities of a working cattle station, live the life from dawn till dusk, experience the trials and tribulations, the love and the losses of these devoted desert dwellers.

Birds of Central Australia
Central Australia has a fantastic range of Birds from the second larges bird of prey in the world to some of the most colourful to some of the smallest birds each with their own preffered habitats. To maximise observations of these often shy and rare birds special to get to their

Desert Eco Systems
Venture into the plant world to learn and enjoy the unique bio diversity of Central Australia. With over 2,000 different plant varieties and approximately 300 endemic plants to The Centre their is no shortage of choices or ecosystems to enjoy

Outback Challenges
Outback Challenges come in many formats like “The Larapinta Walking Trail” 150 km of mountainous walking trails through some of Central Australia’s most isolated and spectacular pristine wilderness. Still hiding many secrets, and untill recently (Oct 1997)the Fat Tailed Stick Nest Rat (unsighted for 50 years) thought to be extinct. “The Simpson Desert” Australia’s gteatest sandy desert is a test of men and machines. This is a 4WD challenge

Natural History
The Centre of Australia is one of the older parts of the continent and the area being so dry for so, long has left us with an unusual view of history. Ayers Rock at 600m.y.o. is not even middle age yet. Enjoy spectacular scenery and breath taking views unspoilt by civilisation.

Photography
If you are a serious photographer and you consider Ayers Rock to be impressive with its different colours and contrasts then a private tour is for you. With our years of experience we know where the best vantage points are when the best light is available and how to get there. Film crews from all over the world are regular clients of ours.

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