Diamantina Touring Company
Since 1988 Diamantina have been operating award winning safaris to remote parts of outback Australia featuring wilderness, Aboriginal culture detailed interpretation, friendly informative crew and fine cuisine and Australian wines.
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Committed to best practise environmental stewardship. Head office and workshops completely off grid. We take only photos and leave only footprints.
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Pitjantjatjara Lands
Pitjantjatjara Lands has been described as the jewel in the outback crown. The landscapes in the Everard and Musgrave Ranges are simply stunning. And with a rigorous permit system very few people have the opportunity to see it. Our expedition departs Adelaide and enters the Lands at Indulkana north of Marla Bore. From there we travel through the Everard and Musgrave Ranges. Anangu will show us how to collect bush foods, like witchetty grubs and honey ants. We will see some extraordinary landscapes, mountains, valleys, gorges, waterholes and plains. We will visit rock art sites, and our Anangu hosts will interpret them. In the Everard Ranges there are some wonderful dreaming trails amongst areas of the most extraordinary beauty. The Musgrave ranges rise from the desert to over 4,000′.
Burke & Wills
Expedition in four wheel drives that follows the route of explorers Burke and Wills from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Detailed interpretation by expert guides, includes camping in swags on stretchers, all meals, fine wines with dinner, entry fees.
Red Centre to the Pilbara
When we designed this expedition we sought to create a program that captured the very essence of the Western Deserts and their astonishing diversity. From the rugged ranges of remote Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the ironstone red ranges of the lesser-known East Pilbara to the botanical wonderlands of the Gibson Desert bio region. This was the last wilderness in Australia, it was only in the 1960s that any vehicle tracks were made into the area. Back then, Terry Long, the Woomera Native Patrol officer said, “No one had been out there. The desert, as far as the Department [WA Dept of Supply] was concerned… was an unknown, as it was to the whole of Western Australia. The Warburton Ranges [were] as far as anybody got. People in those days knew absolutely nothing about Aborigines.” This expedition takes you there. This tour has a relaxed pace and the four wheel driving is not extreme, but the locations are extremely remote and beautiful.
Canning Stock Route
A 19 day guided fully catered expedition to the Canning Stock Route including the Tanami and Gunbarrel Highway. It is the longest and most remote Stock Route in the world. One set of wheel tracks lead for almost 2,000 km across the Great Sandy and Little Sandy Deserts and the Gibson Desert. It is a place of living history – the longest heritage trail in Australia. The Stock Route is a place of great natural beauty – a desert wilderness with diverse land systems.
The Great Victoria Desert
This expedition travels across an extraordinary diversity of landscapes and vegetation, the scenery changing constantly. Both the Nullarbor and the Great Victoria Desert are veritable Botanic Gardens teeming with life. Departing Coober Pedy, (which is serviced daily by Rex Air from Adelaide) we travel west on the famed Anne Beadell Highway through Aboriginal Land to Tallaringa Nature Reserve. We visit once top secret ground zero at Emu Field, the site of the first atomic tests on Australian soil. We cross the GVD along the Anne Beadell Highway to Laverton. From the goldfields we return across the northern Nullarbor, crossing expansive and evocative sweeping plains. This program offers an astonishing diversity of landscapes and scenery.
Ultimate Outback Expedition
Four wheel drive expedition to the Simpson Desert and the Flinders Ranges via the Birdsville Track. Departs from Alice Springs or Adelaide. The perfect introduction to the Outback, experiencing many varied landforms – from sand dune deserts, to vast gibber plains, desert ranges, the romance and history of the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks and Lake Eyre, the lowest point in mainland Australia.
The Simpson Desert
Diamantina have been operating expeditions to the Simpson Desert and Lake Eyre Basin since 1990. We have crossed the desert over 100 times, along every track, and off track as well. With this experience, we have designed what we believe is the best Simpson desert expedition. The deserts of the Lake Eyre basin are unlike any other in Australia. The sediments that flow down the great river systems of the Diamantina and Cooper are raised by the wind and dumped into vast longitudinal sand dunes. They hold less vegetation than the Western Deserts, interspersed with its salt lakes, clay pans and spinifex. In places there are gidgee groves in the interdunal corridors, gnarled like ancient olive trees. Amid all this beauty is one of the toughest four wheel drive challenges on the planet. But this expedition is far more than just the Simpson Desert. We travel the historic Birdsville Tracks, rich in Aboriginal and European heritage. We explore lesser known gorges in the Flinders Ranges, and we trek north from Dalhousie to historic Old Andado Station.
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