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APT
EXPLORE!
GLOBAL GOURMET TOURS
FOOD & WINE SAILING CULTURE
Australia and New Zealand both Explore! offers the opportunity to Indigenous culture is an integral
produce world-class wine. Arblaster & experience crew life onboard a classic feature of the region. Highlights of
Clarke specialises in wine tours to the tall ship, fitted with mod cons including APT’s Kings Canyon, Uluru & Aboriginal
region. Its New Zealand Wine Tour, hot showers and electricity. Voyages Culture tour include a guided walk
departing February 16 next year, covers range from four days along the coast of around the base of Uluru and a work-
all the major wine regions. APT has a New Zealand to 50 days sailing from shop with Aboriginal artists. This five-
one-day Magnificent Hunter Valley Easter Island to Tahiti. day tour is priced from £730 (excluding
Winetaster tour departing Sydney daily. Abercrombie & Kent offers a flights). AAT Kings offers a three-day
Global Gourmet Tours offers two Nomad Yachting package around the Kakadu Hawk Dreaming Wilderness
luxury itineraries in the region in 2009. Tahitian islands. Six nights are spent camping safari departing from Darwin,
Its 13-night tour of eastern Australia onboard a luxury private yacht, which including permission to camp overnight
tour departs from Sydney on May 9. can access lagoons that the larger cruise on Aboriginal lands, from £477.
It includes cookery demonstrations ships can’t visit. Highlights include Anzcro includes a waterfall walk with
and workshops. A 10-night tour to watching a movie under the stars and Aboriginal women in a World Heritage-
Western Australia in October is timed visiting a pearl farm. From £5,499 listed rainforest in its three-day Rock
to coincide with the Spring in the (with flights), this can be extended Art, Rainforest Experience & Cooktown
Valley festival near Perth. with a hotel stay on Bora Bora. group tour, from £462.
OZXPOSURE
AUSTRAVEL
VIRGIN HOLIDAYS
WEDDINGS & HONEYMOONS
WALKERS WILDLIFE & NATURE
The region has plenty of romantic From glaciers to the outback to Australia’s unique animal species
options for couples, offering privacy, coastal parks, the region has dramatic are a major attraction for visitors. APT’s
independence and exotic ceremonies. walking tracks. OzXposure’s 11-day West Coast Discovery tour includes a
Kuoni combines wedding ceremonies Hike New Zealand trip takes in the Shark Bay cruise in search of dugongs,
in the Cook Islands with honeymoons in natural wonders of South Island. and spotting crocodiles, fruit bats and
Tahiti. Activities include kayaking, rafting wallabies in Geike Gorge.
Cox & Kings has a range of private and sleeping at a high country sheep Wildlife Worldwide has a Southern
journeys that make ideal honeymoons. station. From £799 (excluding flights). Wine and Wildlife itinerary to Kangaroo
Most itineraries are self-drive, and GAP Adventures offers an eight-day Island – home to seals, koalas, kangaroos
extensions can be arranged in Fiji, Larapinta Trek in the Australian and echidnas – the Gawler Ranges and
French Polynesia and the Cook Islands. outback and an eight-day walking Baird Bay, great for whale watching.
Gold Medal offers Voyages Bedarra holiday in Tasmania. Ramblers Austravel has a four-day Christchurch
Island, where couples exchange vows Worldwide Holidays has a Grand Wildlife package, while DoSomething-
on a secluded beach before feasting on Australian Tour, lasting 28 days, from Different.com sells a range of Wildlife
seafood under the stars, and Vatulele £5,280 (including flights). This includes Encounters, from the Philip Island
Island Resort in Fiji, where a local choir the outback, the Blue Mountains and penguin parade to the Waitomo
sings at wedding ceremonies. the Hunter Valley vineyards. glow worm caves.
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TTG Knowledge AUSTRALASIA December 2008
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