South Australia - Adelaide & Kangaroo Island

With its rugged Outback, dramatic coastline, world-class vineyards and historic towns and cities, South Australia certainly has a lot to offer to visitors. It is a diverse state made up mostly of dramatic arid and semi-arid country known as the Outback, areas of greener land towards the beautiful coastline and along Australia's longest river, the mighty Murray. The state is a place where visitors can get up close and personal with the authentic Australia, be that wildlife, the beauty of the outback or the long coastline. With world-class wine, friendly people, an unspoilt environment and a very relaxed pace of life, it offers the break in Australia that visitors may have been looking for.

Once considered a sleepy city, Adelaide is undergoing a rapid transformation with a burgeoning small-bar scene, world-class art and music, and a festival calendar to rival that of any other Australian city. Discover its laneway secrets, take in the stunning flora at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, and find delicious treats around every bend. Today Adelaide is the fifth-most populous city of Australia with a population of around 1.3 million people.
The surroundings of Adelaide offer many outdoor activities including hiking and cycling the world famous Barossa Wine Valley and the Adelaide hills with its many vineyards and heritage towns of Hahndorf and Lobethal, where visitors can experience German heritage including delicacies such as Brezels and German beer.

Kangaroo Island is a pristine wilderness - a place that has offered protection to substantial populations of native Australian animals, a place of beauty and a place of escape. Kangaroo Island is also big and surprisingly diverse and guests can find soaring cliffs, dense bushland, towering sand dunes, wetlands and massive arcs of bone white beach.