The Variety Of Flinders Range

Fly high above the Wilpena Pound to witness the panorama or try an underground napping in Coober Pady. Test your trekking skills at the Haysen Trail, or endeavor driving a car or riding a dirt bike on the edges of the Mawson road. Search your route toward the parched Lake Eyre. This land of ancient civilization can teach you more about the history and artifacts of Aboriginal culture. If you are an animal lover, the Arkaroola wilderness Sanctuary has much to offer. Explore the vanished era in the stones, fossils, cultural remnants, rock sculptures, and infertile lakes.

There is lot to do when you arrive on land of Flinders Ranges

Fly or Saunter through the Wilpena Pound

Pay some bucks to board the charming flight that soars above Wilpena Pound. This small aerial journey you can exhibit the Flinders Ranges of Southern Australia. From thousands of feet above the ground, it seems like a misplaced land of civilization where dinosaurs it’s likely to be found again. This range embraces peaks as high as Himalayas. Where St Mary’s crest is known for the scenic beauty it offers, Mount Remarkable is considered as an ideal place for an adventurous walk. Visit the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary to watch some rare species of animals and birds. If you really think that you have what it takes to be a hiker, try trekking from Parachilna, a small mountainous community, to the shorelines of Fleurieu Peninsula. It is a trekking path of 1200 km known as Heysen Trail.

Ride a bicycle or Drive a car

For more adventures, hire a bicycle or a car to cover the rugged, coarse distance between Adelaide Hills and mountainous village of Blinman. This route is a craggy road of around 900 kilometers red mud and long wood trails. Take a break to visit the ancient townships of Birdwood and Lobethal. Also visit the neighboring Wine-manufacturing Barossa Valley, the ancient mining centers of Burra and Kapunda. For adventurous drives, move on Strzelecki track that penetrates the breathtaking desert, after passing through Dalhousie Springs and Damp area of Coongie Lakes.

Find the dissident opals

Know people from around to world that have been settled in the dugout homes since many decades. Also, check out the renowned underground art arcade. An ancient mining center has been transformed into a museum that depicts the life story of Coober Pedy. Try to find opals engraved in the walls since many centuries. This area is known as an opal capital and more than 3600 people from all parts of the world have settled here. They live in foxhole-type houses to avoid the sweltering outback temperature.

You would not see elsewhere an underground cathedral, underground inn and a golf field without green lawn as in Coober Pedy.

Explore the original outback

The wildlife around Lake Eyre is remarkable after a scanty rainfall. Try driving through the Birdsville route that instigates from Maree, a place once considered mecca by Afghans, toward a town near the Simpson Desert, Birdsville. Check out the desert Sanctuary located near the Coongie Lakes that conserves over 21,000 marine roosters and more than 160 species of birds. Before going to this isolated vicinity, be equipped with a compass, map, a car with all the equipments, and enough food.

Know about Ancient Aboriginal history and anciently formed Geology

A cultural tour to Oodnadatta Track and Lake Eyre is essential to know about the traditional civilization of Adnyamathanha population. Try to operate a bush tucker, or help at the open-air medical camps that constantly operate in this region. You can know how the Flinders Range formed by driving on the Aboriginal Dreaming Trail. Go to the Chambers George to exhibit the artifacts and frescos left behind by the native people. Or take a guided tour through the rugged land of Barchina Gorge to know about the land’s geology, if that’s what interests you.

An expedition through the Flinders Range is more of a historic and adventurous trip rather than a site-seeing tour. However, it has something for everyone.