The Explorer’s Outback NSW Tour from Sydney – Gold, Wine & Wildlife 

HIGHLIGHTS DAY ONE

• Hawkesbury River area & Bilpin: morning coffee & apple pie
• The basalt formations at Grose Valley - Blue Mountains National Park.
• The magnificent Hartley Vale Valley with a good chance to spot eastern rosella's, more kangaroos, an emu or a wedge-tailed eagle.
• The rugged Wollemi wilderness & undeveloped Wolgan Valley.
• Blackfellows Hand Cave - hidden site of Aboriginal rock-stencil prints
• The historic village of Newnes
• Circuit walk to the spectacular Glow Worm Tunnel - rainforest and old railway tracks
• Rich birdlife - wombats, goannas and wallabies
• Communal dinner-under-the-stars around the piping hot, outdoor stone pizza oven of the historic Newnes Hotel & Museum

Accommodation:
Newnes Hotel Cabins

HIGHLIGHTS DAY TWO

• Glorious exposed cliff escarpments, volcanic plugs and lush rolling grazing lands of the Capertee Valley
• Bird watchers paradise: Painted Honeyeater, the Wonga Pigeon, Diamond Firetail, Turquoise Parrot, Plum-headed Finch and Superb Lyrebirds
• The Ghost town of Glen Davis with it's abandoned mine shafts and oil-shale ovens
• Glen Alice Road
• The heritage protected Rylstone
• Idyllic Dunns Swamp. in the northwest the Wollemi NP
• The Pagoda Walk with breathtaking views over Cudgegong River
• (Free) option to kayak option up to Kandos Weir
• Platypus Point, long neck turtles, wombats, goannas, wallabies and - platypus
• Dinner served at our hotel in historic Rylstone.
  
  Accommodation:
  The Globe Hotel

HIGHLIGHTS DAY THREE

• Wine tasting in the Mudgee region
• Exploring the picturesque gold rush town Gulgong.
• Pioneer Museum and the Henry Lawson Centre
• Wine tasting
• Sandstone buildings, beautiful plane trees and quaint shops
• Dinner at the award winning Globe Hotel.
  
  Accommodation:
  The Globe Hote

HIGHLIGHTS DAY FOUR

• Exploring ands sight-seeing through the old gold-fields, the Central Tablelands and the Great Dividing Ranges.
• Gold ghost-town of Sofala & the Old Sofala Gaol
• Hill End - preserved historic gold town
• One hour Imperial tour of the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains
• Wildlife!
  
  Accommodation:
  Jenolan Caves House

HIGHLIGHTS DAY FIVE

• A brisk morning walk to spot a platypus, a brush-tailed rock-wallaby or a wombat.
• Off-road drive to the remote Kanangra Plateau, part of the 5% remaining true wilderness in NSW.
• Spot herds of eastern grey kangaroos and plenty of pretty-faced & swamp wallabies (true name) on the way.
• The 2 hour walk on Kanangra Plateau. offering spectaculair views over large parts of the Greater Blue Mountains Worlds Heritage Area.
• The views & ultimate photo opportunities at Kanangra Wall and the blue eucalyptus forest of Kanangra Deep. If ever you wondered were the name "Blue Mountains" comes from - this is it!
• Lunch in the old postoffice of the quaint explorers' hamlet of Hartley, with a visit to the local Aboriginal gallery.
• Spectacular views of the Grose Valley from Pulpit Rock, The Jamison Valley with it's Wentworth Falls and the Three Sisters

Return to Sydney at ca 5 PM