2003 Tours: May to August, 12 to 14 day 4WD Outback Tour, Alice Springs to Melbourne. Please ask for seat availability during May to August. August 28th, Special 15% discounted Tour! 14 Day fully accommodated or Camping Coach Tour, Alice Springs to Melbourne with a max. of 15 participants. Can be fully customised and discounted even more for groups of 6 or more. Sept. 15th, 22 Day 4WD Camping Tour, Melbourne to Darwin. Oct. 9th / 10th, 22 Day 4WD Camping Tour, Darwin to Melbourne.  2004 Advance Notice: Feb. to April 2004, 18 Day 4WD Camping and Tag Along Tour from Sydney to Alice Springs or return.  Details and Itinerary: http://www.redcentre.com.au/2004/18day-Syd-Alice.htm August 24th  to  26th 2004, 28 to 30 day 4WD Camping Tour from Perth to Darwin and all in between. Please contact us for more details and prices about any of the above tours. E-mail Contact here.   Australian Red Centre Adventures is a family business.  Our aim is to provide affordable Adventure and Outback Tours to any Australian destination for Individuals, Small Groups, Families and other Private parties. We consider our tours to be different to most other tours available in Australia. Most of our Outback and Adventure Tours are limited to only four participants so that you can experience Australia's beauty, the stark contrasts of the landscape and the wide open spaces in the intimacy and companionship that can only develop and exist within small groups.  We can also plan tours for groups of up to 18 participants. Most Private, Family and Group Tours can be completely customised.  Mike also leads each year at least one 4WD Tag Along Tour. These are Expeditions for the more adventurous traveler who wants to drive himself and experience more than is possible on other tours. When you join any of our tours you can be sure of expert guidance, a friendly, relaxed atmosphere and the flexibility that only travelling in a small group can provide, and what's more, you will see many places others don't take you to.  At first glance some of our tours may appear a little more expensive than some other offers. As you look a little closer and begin to add up what we provide, consider that we limit participant numbers on our tours and take you Off the Beaten Track where ever practical, while many of the other tours follow each other along the highway, you too will realize that our tour prices are very competitive. What's more, our prices are all inclusive. Accommodation, permits, entrance fees and all meals ( with very few exceptions ) are always included.  Mass Tourism should be much cheaper anyhow. If you can see yourself being one of 30 or more passengers, arriving at a destination for a short stop, being herded back into the bus to make it to the next destination ahead of a number of other buses and perhaps drive well into the night, then our tours are not for you.  Where ever practical we go Off the Beaten Track and camp away from the crowds and we never schedule driving after dark.  Looking for four star luxury with white table cloth, silver spoons and ice cold champagne? Sorry, we can't offer that. We even ask you to wash your own cups, plates and cutlery, and we really appreciate your help with the collection of fire wood etc. .  You can even try your hand at navigation and you can get involved in cooking or the planning of the next day's  route ( Custom & Private Tours ). A note regards Camp Fires. We treasure our outback and all it has to offer. Over the years as more and more "Nature Lovers" have taken to the outback we have seen large areas depleted of death wood and live trees. With it many species of our unique wildlife and flora have become all but extinct. To preserve as much as possible of what's left and to give our favourite camping places a chance to  recover we frequently change our camping spots and often carry our fire wood for long distances, collecting it where it is plentiful. The tour vehicles are 4WD Toyota Landcruisers, 4WD Nissan Patrols or similar vehicles.  When Offroad capability is not required we occasionally use a comfortable Minibus, and for larger groups we can provide a coach. With coach tours some of our normal routes won't be possible and Itineraries need to be adjusted accordingly. We can't always guarantee that a tour will be run using a particular vehicle.  Our Products:  Adventure Tours and Outback Safaris, suited for Individuals, Families and small Groups.  Special Tours, tours to special events  Private Tours  Social Group Tours  Study Group Tours  Family Group Tours  Special Interest Group Tours  All these Group Tours can be as per our normal itineraries or they maybe customized to suit the group. There will be times when even our large range of tours and those of other operators are not exactly what you are looking for.  You and your group may want to change destinations, remain longer at some destination or like to visit other places that are not on our normal routes. We offer you  DESIGN  Your  TOUR: You decide on your destinations and dates, organize your group and we will plan the tour for or with you and take you there.  (Some limitations apply). With those tours, we can also offer more luxuries. Whatever your plans, we can custom design a tour exactly to your wishes.  We have taken a group of artists to the Bungle Bungle, set up camp for a week and catered for them while they went about painting, sketching and enjoyed the scenery.  We have taken a solo lady to the Flinders Ranges and supplied support and provisions while she treked along the Heysen Trail.  Perhaps you like to go on a Heritage Trail, following in the footsteps of our early explorers or your ancestors?  Or would you like to go fossicking for Gold and Precious Stones?  You can view  Our Online Brochure here. The itineraries shown are only a guide and change frequently.  This Online Brochure is our only brochure. We don't believe in printing and the wasting of paper ( spell trees ).    Top of Page                                                                                               Email Our general terms and conditions apply to any bookings from these web pages.

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Australian Red Centre Adventures operate tours to all areas of Australia. Our tours are camping and safari type tours.
Most of our safaris include the Red Centre, Ayers Rock and Alice Springs.
Tours to the Red Centre, Simpson Desert, Great Ocean Road, Flinders Ranges, Grampians, Barossa Valley,
the Kimberley and the Bungle Bungle. Many tours include Kakadu, Darwin, Kununurra, the Gibb River Road, the Mitchell
Plateau and the Mitchell Falls. Our Red Centre tours always include Uluru, Ayers Rock, Uluru, Yulara, Alice Springs,
Palm Valley and the MacDonnell Ranges. We visit Albert Namatjira's gallery at Hermannsburg and camp at Kings Canyon.
Tours to WA include Geikie Gorge, the Hamersley Ranges, the Pilbara, Kalbarri, Monkey Mia, the Pinnacles, Kalgoorlie
and Perth. We return from the West through the Nullarbor. The Opal Fields of Coober Pedy and Andamooka are usually on
our itinerary. We can take you through the Simpson Desert for much less than other operators. We only take small groups
and arrange private tours.
The driver on all tours speaks german. "Abenteuer Reisen in Australien, von der Küste bis zur Wüste fuer Einzelne,
kleine Gruppen und private Gruppen. Wir planen fuer Sie und Ihre Gruppe Touren genau nach Wunsch und oft kostet
das nicht mehr als unsere normalen Reisen."

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Outback Travel:

The track conditions in the Outback change frequently. This is part of the beauty of that type of Adventure Tours and adds to the thrill and challenges.
I just recently returned from two Simpson Desert Crossings and can again say that no two of these tours are the same. We had an exceptional amount of rainfall late for that region, followed by several storms with more heavy rain. I had never before seen so many wild flowers in the Simpson, that late in the season. On one occasion we were very lucky to leave Dalhousie Springs on the morning we did. Had we delayed our departure by one day we would have been stranded there for three days with the other 39 vehicles. On the next tour a similar number of vehicles had to sit it out at Mungeranie along the Birdsville Track.
The moral of this story?
        Allow at least one day, better still two days at the end of such tours. That way you are less likely to miss your flight out of Alice Springs, Adelaide or wherever, should there be a delay in reaching our destination. With Outback Travel an exact arrival date can never be guaranteed!
 

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Outback Touren:
Die Pisten im Outback und in den Wüsten ändern sich dauernt. Das ist was diese Reisen aufregent und abenteuerlich macht.
Vor Kurzem kam ich von zwei Simpson Desert Touren zurück und kann nur wiederholen daß keine zwei dieser Touren gleich sind. Nach spätem Regen in dieser Gegend, gefolgt by einigen Gewittern mit mehr Regen gab es da viele Überschwemmungen und die Wüste war sehr grün.  Niehmals zuvor habe ich um diese Jahreszeit so viele Wildblumen im Simpson Desert gesehen.
Auf einer dieser Reisen hatten wir Glück mit unserer Abfahrt von den Dalhausie Quellen. Wären wir einen Tag später abgefahren dann hätten wir wegen des Regens da für drei Tage mit 39 anderen Fahrzeugen warten müssen.
Auf der nächsten Reise hatten wir wieder Glück. Am Morgen unserer geplanten Abfahrt von Birdsville wurde der Birdville Track wieder für den Verkehr geöffnet. Ungefähr 30 Fahrzuege wurden aber für drei Tage in Mungeranie am Birdsville Track aufgehalten.
    Weshalb schreibe ich diese Geschichte?
Ich will Ihnen damit erklären daß man mit Outback Touren niehmals einen genauen Ankunfts Tag garrantieren kann. Man soll mindestens einen, besser zwei extra Tage für das Ziel der Reise einplanen.
 

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