4–5 DayLake Eyre Tour w/- Coober Pedy to Adelaide: Fly or Drive Options
4 & 5 Day Drive Tours – A more relaxed journey, perfect if you’d like to stretch out the experience and dive deeper into outback life. Travelling with 10 passengers, these tours combine spectacular flights with an extended road trip, giving you more time to explore hidden corners of the South Australian outback. The 4-Day option has you flying back from Coober Pedy on Day 4, while the 5-Day option includes an extra overnight stay in Woomera before returning to Adelaide by road.
Departures are from Adelaide on Sundays.
Small groups, personal service, and guaranteed window seats mean every guest gets the best possible view of this natural wonder.
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At a glance
Places visited: Adelaide, Clare Valley Wine Region, Flinders Ranges, Talc Alf, Ochre Pits, Marree, Oodnadatta Track, William Creek and Coober Pedy
Duration: 4 Day Tour and 5 Day Tour
Departure point: Adelaide CBD
Departure day: Sunday
Departure time: 6.30 am
Inclusions: All meals, some beer and wine, transport, accommodation, and flights
Prices: 4-Day Tour $3,650 per person | 5-Day Tour $3,950per person
Image Credit: Michael Waterhouse Photography, South Australian Tourism Commission
Day One
Adelaide to Parachilna. The Flinders Ranges
Collecting you from your accommodation around 6.30 am, we’ll journey north, via the Clare Valley Wine Region, where we will pull in for a mid-morning coffee break. Along the way we will make some short stops to see the Silo Art and notable lookouts. We will arrive in Quorn for lunch, before hitting the road again, travelling to Hawker to visit the Jeff Morgan Gallery where you can see his panoramas of Wilpena Pound and Arkaroola. After Hawker, we start getting into the Spectacular part of the Flinders Ranges, where we do the wonderful Geological Drive through Brachinna George, overlooking Wilpena Pound, before coming out the other side and make our way up to the award winning, The Prarie Hotel, Parachilna for our 1st nights’ accommodation.
Image Credit: Adam Bruzzone, South Australian Tourism Commission
Day Two
Parachilna to Marree
Following breakfast, we will travel a short distance back into The Ranges, where we will get a culture experience, at the Wadna Aboriginal centre. We will, then start heading North to experience the newly formed Nilpena Ediacara national Park, were we go back in time some 500mil yrs, through the worlds richest and most diverse Ediacara fossil site. We will stop for a coffee break at the Quandong Café in Copley, and then still heading North, we will spend some time admiring the beautiful colours of the Ochre Pits. A short drive will see us at the old railway town of Farina and its famous historic underground pop-up bakery. After a wonderful morning, we head to Marree, the home of the Old Ghan railway town, check out Lake Eyre Yacht club, before settling down for our 2nd nights accommodation.
Image Credit: Lachlan Swan, South Australian Tourism Commission
Day Three
Marree to Coober Pedy
We wake up, and straight into the Plane for our look at the Spectacular Lake Eyre, not before flying over the “Marree Man ‘. After breakfast ‘Marree style’, we will travel along the famous Oodnadatta Track, with the famous Old Ghan Line, just to the side of the road. We get to Lake Eyre south, where you will get a chance to view it from ground level. We keep driving west, and get to Coward Hot Springs, for a Date Shak attack, coffee, Dates Scones, Date Slice, Date everything. Kepp driving towards William Creek, which is located on the largest cattle station in the world, Anna Creek Station. Here, we will stop for lunch at the iconic William Creek Hotel. After lunch we will travel to the opal capital of the world, Coober Pedy, where we’ll do some sightseeing, explore the fascinating township and have an opportunity to buy some magnificent precious opals.
Image Credit: Karen Smith, South Australian Tourism Commission
Day Four and Day Five
Coober Pedy to Adelaide
Day 4 - We wake up in the Opal capital of the world, where we will go out to the Famous Film location, “The Breakaways” come back in town for some more exploring of the Underground world of Coober Pedy, before dropping those that wish to do the 2hr flight back to Adelaide at 1pm, and then the vehicle will travel down the Stuart Highway to Woomera, where our 4th night will be.
DAY 5 - We have breakfast at the Woomera Heritage centre, and then walk through and read about all the history of Woomera and the testing that went on in the area. Then keep on going down the Stuart Hwy, call in and see the award winning Australian Arid Lands Botanic gardens, and have a coffee. Then travelling south, we stop in at port Germein for Lunch by the Sea. After lunch keep going south towards Adelaide, where our tour will conclude late afternoon.