A high-angle drone shot captures a single orange-red track curving through a sea of green and brown desert bushes with Uluru on the horizon.
Culture & Heritage

The Ultimate Red Centre Road Trip

Alice Springs

Alice Springs

9 days, 8 nights

Road Trips

From: $6,626 pp

Tour overview

Experience the heart of Australia's Red Centre on this immersive 8-day journey, beginning in Alice Springs. Explore the West MacDonnell Ranges, visiting landmarks like Ellery Creek and Ormiston Gorge. Travel to Kings Canyon in Watarrka National Park, where a guided rim walk offers breathtaking views of sandstone cliffs and lush valleys. Continue to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, witnessing the majestic Uluru at sunrise and sunset, and exploring the Valley of the Winds at Kata Tjuta. Engage in cultural experiences, including Aboriginal art workshops and the Sounds of Silence dinner under the stars. Conclude your adventure back in Alice Springs, enriched by the natural wonders and cultural heritage of Australia's outback.

Tour highlights & inclusion

9 days / 8 nights
5 breakfasts, 1 lunch

Alice Springs

Alice Springs

Rental car included
  • NT Parks Pass
  • West MacDonnell Ranges Full Day Tour - Lunch Included
  • Wintjiri Wiru Sunset Dinner

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Price pp from

NZD $6,626

Trip itinerary

Arrive into Alice Springs

Welcome to Alice Springs, the heart of Australia’s Red Centre! This iconic outback town is known for its rich cultural heritage, history, and stunning desert scenery. Discover Aboriginal art and storytelling, uncover the stories of early explorers and pioneers, and take in the rugged beauty of the surrounding landscapes. Experience native wildlife and breathtaking outback sunsets in Alice Springs, offering a genuine Australian adventure.

A person in a hat viewing the sunset over Alice Springs from the top of Anzac Hill.

Accommodation

Modern studio apartment interior with a small kitchenette, white tiled backsplash, and a bed with rolled blue towels in Alice Springs.
Desert Palms Alice Springs

Activities

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Highlights of The Ultimate Red Centre Road Trip

The massive, orange-red rocky walls of a deep gorge are perfectly reflected in the still, glassy surface of a large waterhole lined with white-barked trees in West MacDonnell National Park.

NT Parks Pass

A vertical shot looking down a narrow, rocky path between two massive, sheer red rock cliffs that stretch high into a clear blue sky.

West MacDonnell Ranges Full Day Tour - Lunch Included

Vertical night shot of a red glowing drone formation shaped like a face in the sky above the dark silhouette of Uluru and lit desert paths.

Wintjiri Wiru Sunset Dinner

A line of people with backpacks walk through golden desert grasses at the foot of the towering red rock face of Uluru.

Uluru Trek - Breakfast Included

The setting sun illuminates the wispy tips of tall spinifex grass in the foreground, leading the eye toward the iconic red monolith of Uluru.

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Parks Pass

Two people rest on a bench in the sun-drenched desert with the massive, rounded red rock domes of Kata Tjuta rising behind them.

Kata Tjuta Morning Tour - Breakfast Included

A wide night shot of the Field of Light installation near Uluru, showing thousands of glowing, multi-colored light spheres on slender stems under a dark, starry sky.

Field of Light Uluru Dinner

Close up of a person sitting on the ground using a metal tool to work on a piece of wood, with several finished seed bracelets displayed in the foreground.

Aboriginal Cultural Experience & Tour with Karrke

The Ultimate Red Centre Road Trip

Light Towers by Night

The Ultimate Red Centre Road Trip

Range Safari Flight Experience

A top-down close-up shows a small, spiny baby echidna burrowing into dry leaves and twigs next to a piece of weathered tree bark in Alice Springs.

Nocturnal Tour

A wide landscape shot at dawn showing a vibrant red and yellow hot air balloon floating above the vast, flat desert plains of the Northern Territory with the rugged blue silhouette of the MacDonnell Ranges on the horizon.

60 Minute Hot Air Balloon Sunrise Flight

Additional inclusions

Private Transfer - Alice Springs Airport to Alice Springs Accommodation

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