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Alice Springs Highlights Half-Day Tour
4 h
Half Day
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Itinerary
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Stop At: Alice Springs School of the Air Visitor Centre, Alice Springs School of Air 80 Head St, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Hear from your Driver Guide how Alice Springs began as a radio repeater station along the Overland Telegraph Line
• Call into the School of the Air, which provides education to primary school aged children living on remote properties in the Northern Territory
Duration: 55 minutes
Stop At: Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, South Stuart Highway Herbert Heritage Drive, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Explore the Telegraph Station, site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs, and learn how it relayed messages between Darwin and Adelaide for 60 years
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum, 8 - 10 Stuart Tce, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Visit the headquarters of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, which delivers medical services to those who live and work in remote rural Australia.
Duration: 55 minutes
Stop At: Alice Springs Reptile Centre, 9 Stuart Tce, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
At the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, encounter goannas, frill-neck lizards, and meet Terry the saltwater crocodile!
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Anzac Hill, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia
• Top off your afternoon with a panoramic view over Alice and the surrounding West MacDonnell Ranges, from the top of Anzac Hill
Duration: 10 minutes
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This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Alice Springs School of the Air Visitor Centre, Alice Springs School of Air 80 Head St, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Hear from your Driver Guide how Alice Springs began as a radio repeater station along the Overland Telegraph Line
• Call into the School of the Air, which provides education to primary school aged children living on remote properties in the Northern Territory
Duration: 55 minutes
Stop At: Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, South Stuart Highway Herbert Heritage Drive, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Explore the Telegraph Station, site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs, and learn how it relayed messages between Darwin and Adelaide for 60 years
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum, 8 - 10 Stuart Tce, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
Visit the headquarters of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, which delivers medical services to those who live and work in remote rural Australia.
Duration: 55 minutes
Stop At: Alice Springs Reptile Centre, 9 Stuart Tce, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0870 Australia
At the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, encounter goannas, frill-neck lizards, and meet Terry the saltwater crocodile!
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Anzac Hill, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia
• Top off your afternoon with a panoramic view over Alice and the surrounding West MacDonnell Ranges, from the top of Anzac Hill
Duration: 10 minutes
Included
- Hotel pickup and drop off
- Professional, local guide
- Commentary by driver
- Touring by luxury, air-conditioned coach
- Entry to the Telegraph Station, site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs
- Entry at Alice Springs Reptile Centre, home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia
- Entry to School of the Air, the world's largest classroom
- Entry/Admission - Alice Springs School of the Air Visitor Centre
- Entry/Admission - Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve
- Entry/Admission - Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum
- Entry/Admission - Alice Springs Reptile Centre
Not included
- Food and drink
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult
- Vehicle used is 21 seated coach
- Please note: School of the Air is only open Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays)
- Stroller accessible
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 50 travelers
Features
Tourism
90%
Cultural
70%
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This tour of Alice Springs is a good way to occupy any spare time you might have in Alice Springs while stopping there on your way to Ayers Rock (Uluru). This tour provides a good overview of the history and culture of the Alice Springs area and the central outback and the ongoing development of Northern Australia up to the current day.
Good opportunity to see the main attractions in Alice Springs in a short time. It was great to see the Old Telegraph station, Reptile park, the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the amazing work that they do Anzac Hill and the School of the Air which allows you to see the teacher giving the lessons via an incredible network of computers, reaching some children 1000's kilometres away.
We went to School of the Air and saw a lesson in progress. It was very interesting, and as a former teacher, I was amazed at the technology and what a difference it has made to outback students living in remote areas. The Overland Telegraph Station was much more interesting than I expected, but much more time could be spent there. We were amazed by our visit to the Royal Flying Doctor Service. We had no idea they have so many aircraft and are kept so busy, and in far more areas than outback Australia. The story of its founding is just amazing. Rex from the reptile place we visited was a real character, and we learned a lot from his talk and watching him with a crocodile, lizards and a snake he had removed that day. Finally, the visit to Anzac Hill at sunset was a very apt way to finish our stay in Alice Springs. We'd recommend this tour, and our guide, Natasha, whose speech and instructions were very clear. Not a moment was wasted!