Kakadu & Mary River Adventure Day Tour (D1)

Tour Details

Operator

AAT Kings (Northern Territory)

Destinations

Kakadu National Park and Mary River Wetlands

Departs From

Darwin

Tour Description

Leave Darwin city heading south along the trans-continental Stuart Highway while our driver guides regale you with details of the iconic 'Top End' of Australia. Turning due east onto the Arnhem Highway you will be traversing through the Humpty Doo region followed by the Adelaide River floodplain. Just over an hour into the trip, you will be arriving at an ‘Outback Roadhouse’ for a morning tea stop or late breakfast (at own expense).

Journeying onward into the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park you will be surrounded by vast tracts of savannah woodland, bordered by the largest wetland system in Australia. As you head deep into the park you will pass through a variety of ecosystems such as monsoonal rainforest, sandstone country and the worlds most protected river system, the South Alligator River.

In the cool of the mid-morning, you will arrive at Kakadu’s premier art site, Ubirr. The walk is an easy to moderate loop walk, which takes you into numerous shelters and galleries of rock art, some of which were used as recently as 40 years ago by the traditional people of Kakadu. The hundreds of paintings and the views across the floodplains into Arnhem Land are breathtaking and are why Ubirr is the most visited art site within Kakadu.

After your included lunch stop, you'll arrive at the architecturally awarded, tropically designed, Bowali Visitor Centre, followed by free time to explore the numerous interactive displays, research library, theatres, art gallery, gift shop and staffed information desks.

Join a cruise on a wetland system that houses the world’s highest concentration of crocodiles and is 10 times the size of the famous Yellow Waters system. You'll cruise in one direction (see twice as much with no backtracking) from east to west through the Mary River Wetlands. The abundance of food which sustains the large crocodile population also feeds myriad bird species, wallabies and water buffalo. The aquatic and land-based food chains found throughout the billabong system is something that has to be seen to be believed. Finish your cruise parked amongst a stand of sacred lotus lilies with a glass of sparkling wine and a fresh tropical fruit platter to compliment the majestic surrounds of these internationally significant wetlands.