Don't bring your fine clothes and best shoes on this tour. Once you get up into the desert you seem to get dirty, even when you travelling on the tarmac. As with all trips, we can't guarantee there wont be rain, but a few showers add to the adventure. There is no other institution in the world like a remote Aussie Pub and travelling the outback roads. Most nights you'll will be mixing it with locals and tourists at the bar. Every night your accommodation will be unique, maybe not the Ritz, but definitely different and interesting.
You'll see plenty of kangaroos bounding across the landscape, flocks of emus and endless varieties of  birds and reptiles as you travel the roads. You could stay at a historic sheep station, visit abandoned mines and see where many of the classic Australian movies were made.
You'll travel through areas where the plains stretch to the horizon, you'll ride through rugged ranges as old as the earth itself. Your senses will be moved by the stories of hardship and death in country that should never have been attempted by inexperienced English settlers. And as you travel on your motorcycle and sidecar you will get the true feeling of the country which eludes those travelling by air conditioned coach that only see the country as more television through their tinted panoramic windows. You'll live the country.

SUGGESTED ITINERARY (all tours can be totally customised to your travel desires)
DAY 1:- Leave Adelaide and wind your way into the Adelaide Hills. You immediately start to make some choices as to the itenery of your adventure. You might like to visit  the Australian National Motor Museum and relive memories of your past amongst the beautifully displayed exhibits of Australia's motoring history. We're assuming you're a bit of a motorcycle enthusiast so you wont be disappointed with their fantastic collection of Classic Bikes. Or you can visit some wineries in  the Barossa Valley, Australia's most famous wine region. You can visit some cellars and have a few tastings (not an unpleasant pastime) and stay in the Barossa overnight or continue north through the Clare Valley (another fine wine region) to arrive at Bungaree Station (a working sheep station) for our overnight rest.

DAY 2:- There's nothing like exploring old mining towns and our first stop today will be the town of Burra, an historic copper mining town with a wealth of sights and stories. We are getting close to the outback now.
North from Burra you start to enter the country where outback South Australia begins to appear. Tonight's stay could be at the Austral Hotel at Quorn, a true country pub with a fine host This hotel is a classic old country pub. If we get time a walk around Quorn you will find quite interesting, especially if you're a railway buff.

Day 3:- Today will be a photographers dream with our travel being through the middle of the Flinders Ranges, one of the world's oldest mountain ranges. These are rugged mountains with plenty of spectacular gorges,  Australian animals and lots of spectacular bird life. There will be plenty of dusty rough roads today as we wind our way through the ancient mountains towards the Blinman Hotel for our overnight stay.

Day 4:- Today you'll be seeing more of the Flinders Ranges, old mines, old towns and spectacular gorges. It will be more unsealed roads  so travel will be slow and interesting. If we are travelling with the two Urals you will have a chance to get some spectacular action  photos, especially if the creeks are running and the wild flowers are blooming. The day will continue with you travelling down the black top for a while before our overnight stay at a very interesting barn in the small country town of Melrose.

Day 5:- Today we can rise late, it's not a long way to Adelaide but it will be an interesting ride. We'll visit a couple of unique wineries, a brilliant little historic town and ride through some really beautiful country.

 

An Optional EXTRA Day:- If you would like to extend your tour by a day then a ride from Blinman up to Maree, the true outback and start of the Oodnadatta Track and Birdsville track, is a possibility.

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