Adelaide, the liveliest city in Australia. The "City of Churches", the "Festival City"

Train "Ghan" from Adelaide to Alice Springs takes 24 hours.

Ayers Rock Nothing would be more a shame than for a visitor to go all the way to Australia and not go to Ayers Rock. The red center - the baked desert and stone that has served as the setting for Outback adventures. The staging area for Ayers Rock is Alice Springs which was made world-famous by Nevil Shute's wartime novel "A Town Like Alice".Ayers Rock is the largest monolith in the world. It is two miles long, 1 1/2 miles wide , and 1,143 feet high. The rock a feldspar-rich sandstone called Arkose was the sacred Uluru to the Aborigines, and their paintings and the remains of ancient rite and ceremonies are in evidence in the rock's folds and caverns. If you are in good physical condition and wearing appropriate shoes, you can climb the rock in about 45 minutes, something many Aussies feel they must be able to boast they have done. The rock is interesting from dawn until dusk; it changes colors throughout the day, ending usually with a brilliant orange blast exactly at sunset. No photograph has ever done it justice. Mount Olga is 20 mile away. "road trains" huge tractor-trailer rigs hauling as many as three outsized trailers. Kata Tjuta

Alice Springs to Darwin.

Darwin - The Northern Territory is where some of the greatest places to see are. It’s where Kakadu National Park is, which is a world heritage park. One of the most important wetland areas on the planet for birds. 49,000 square miles and a 370 mile long sandstone escarpment that forms the edge of the Arnhem Land plateau. During the wet season, water cascades off the escarpment in splendid waterfalls which feed three major rivers on the heavily wooded flood plains below. In this ancient Aboriginal homeland, rock paintings found along the escarpment span more than 20,000 years. This is "Crocodile Dundee" land, and monstrous saltwater crocodiles skulk in the estuaries of the main rivers. That’s where you’ll see thousands of wild parrots, galahs, and kookaburras in their natural setting. It’s where the croc’s are and the Australian escarpment. Which is rugged rock faces that fall to the ocean below. Kakadu National Park is east of Darwin and is now considered on of the wildest and most scenic areas in the entire country. . Litchfiled Park, two hours south of Darwin encompasses the escarpment of the Tabletop Range and four big waterfalls. Catch train south to Katherine (200 miles). Katherine Gorge National Park, twenty miles east of town. The Katherine River wends a jagged course through thirteen separate gorges of striking beauty. Arrange cruise on river

Tiwi Island, which is breathtaking. Then we could head to Cairns and do the reef. I hear everyone hates it there because it is to touristy, so we could up up to Townsville and up the Cape Yorke Pennisula. That’s where we’re gonna see Australia. Darwin via ,start going east towards Kakadu head to Cairns. And try to see everything in between.Melbourne and Sydney you can look at in books. They’re concrete jungles!. But I think the top end is where ya’ll will truly see what Australia is. Andrew

Cairns to Brisbane

Kangaroo Island Kangaroos, plus penguins, goannas, koalas, flying foxes and an occasional platypus. At Seal Bay, you can walk amoung and photograph close up the laziest colony of sea lions you ever saw. Have a look at a flock of pelicans and the rare Cape Barren geese, as well as a group of remarkable rocks, called the Remarkable Rocks.

is nice down here. A 2 or 3 day trip there would be nice