Popular things to do in Australia
Enjoy these great attractions during your self drive journey. Special offers and discounts* are included on your Hippie Touring Map, free with every rental.
New South Wales
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Queensland
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New South Wales
Grand Pacific Drive
Come and experience Grand Pacific Drive - Sydney to Wollongong and beyond.
Grand Pacific Drive is a 140km award winning coastal drive beginning at the Royal National Park which is the second oldest National Park in the world. Enjoy driving through coastal rainforests and villages and traverse along the magnificent Sea Cliff Bridge.
From here, Grand Pacific Drive makes its way into the bustling city of Wollongong, offering countless adventure activities like Skydiving, great beaches and shopping, fantastic local restaurants and cafes, a local brewery, a Buddhist temple, art galleries and more. Wollongong is also a great place to stay with a huge mix of options from international hotel brands to quaint and unique B&B´s to backpacker accommodation - Wollongong has something to offer any traveller.
The drive then takes you through to the beautiful coastal towns of Shellharbour and Kiama and ends in the spectacular Shoalhaven region. From here, experience Grand Pacific Drive´s "beyond", to the Southern Highlands, greater South Coast and then on to Canberra. Grand Pacific Drive is also a great "appetiser" to the Sydney to Melbourne coastal drive.
Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Commencing at Royal National Park
+61 2 4227 5545
Grand Pacific Drive
Moving Back Home
So you have used and enjoyed your Hippie Camper and now you´re set to go back home, if you need assistance with extra baggage or souvenirs, surfboards etc that need to be shipped back -contact Hellas Europe Australia on larryp@hellaseurope.com.au and we can organise to collect your prized possessions from the same place you drop off your van and ship them back home for you.
4o Arncliffe Street, Wolli Creek, 2205
+61 2 85071399
Hellas Europe Australai
Queensland
Billabong Sanctuary
Billabong Sanctuary, located just 20 minutes drive south of Townsville is a wildlife park featuring over 100 species of Australian animals, specialising in the fauna of North Queensland such as the estuarine or saltwater crocodile and the endangered cassowary.
The wildlife park is set in 25 acres of natural bush land. There are three representative habitats - rainforest, eucalypt woodland and wetlands all set around a billabong which is teeming with North Queensland waterfowl offering great photographic opportunities. Many of the animals and birds are free-ranging, while captive animals are displayed in enclosures that replicate the animal´s habitat in the wild and subtly blend into the landscape.
Billabong Sanctuary is Australia´s best interactive wildlife experience. Animal encounters is a series of unforgettable, hands-on adventures. Experience the sight, sense and feel of Billabong Sanctuary´s native animals: some cute and cuddly, some slippery and fascinating. Hold a koala, hug a wombat, hold a crocodile or wrap a python around your shoulders.
The Sanctuary´s main focus is the conservation and preservation of native species. To this end, Billabong Sanctuary places emphasis on education at all levels and ages. At the daily wildlife talks and feeding shows presented by our wildlife rangers, you learn all about the ecology, the habitats and unusual characteristics of Australia´s unique animals.
Bruce Highway, 17km south of Townsville.
07 47788344
Billabong Sanctuary
Capricorn Caves
Capricorn Caves, 30 Olsen´s Caves Rd, The Caves 4702, 23kms N of Rockhampton, Ph 07 4934 2883. These amazing tropical limestone offer a beauty different to that of deep underground caves. Daily tours are conducted by experienced guides through large well lit caverns with beautiful decorations, rare ferns and massive tree roots and occasionally small bats. The huge domed Cathedral Cave is renowned for its acoustics and is a popular wedding venue. A fun option at the end of the tour is a candlelit walk through the pioneer passage on to a swinging suspended bridge in the rainforest. Winner of QLD Tourism Award 2005 for Adventure so book a wild caving tour. Summer Solstice light spectacle occurs in December-early January on the 11:00 am tour. Tours hourly 9:00 am-4:00 pm,
Admission Adult $22 Child $11, Group concessions, Wild Caving Adventures bookings essential. Amenities/ Activities bbq, toilet, phone, picnic facilities, kiosk, pool, disabled facilities.
30 Olsens Caves Road The Caves
0749342883
Capricorn Caves
Cruise Whitsundays
Cruise Whitsundays is an exciting and innovative day cruise operator in the Whitsundays region, Queensland - Australia.
Run by an experienced tourism team, Cruise Whitsundays provides an exciting selection of day cruise experiences and activities that really make the most of this incredible part of the world - including the stunning Whitsunday Islands National Park and the Great Barrier Reef.
The day cruises include the Great Barrier Reef Adventures day cruise, the Camira Sailing Adventure to Whitehaven Beach and Island Escape day cruises to Long Island and Daydream Island Resort & Spa.
Cruise Whitsundays is based at Airlie Beach - the gateway to the Whitsundays. Airlie Beach, located on a peninsula that stretches out to the Whitsundays passage, provides an ideal mainland base for an unforgettable Queensland holiday.
263 Shute Harbour Road, QLD 4802 Airlie Beach
+61 7 4946 4662
Cruise Whitsundays
Sunlover Reef Cruises
A trip to Cairns and the tropical north of Queensland is not complete without a visit to the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef.
Sunlover Reef Cruises departs at 10.00am 365 days a year from the Reef Fleet Terminal on Spence Street, Cairns so you can enjoy a sleep in or a leisure breakfast before your day.
Passengers travel on-board an air-conditioned catamaran 1½ hours out to the pontoon on Moore Reef. Once at the reef you have over 4 hours to explore. You can choose to do as much or as little as you like. Your ticket price includes seafood buffet lunch, free snorkelling equipment and as many glass boat and semi-submersible tours as you´d like.
Optional Seawalker Platform Helmet dives, introductory dives and certified dives are also available onboard. If you haven’t seen the reef from above, a 10minute scenic flight is well worth the splurge - so much better than it looks in the photographs! For lovers of learning you can also take a guided educational snorkel tour.
If that all sounds too active then enjoy the seafood buffet lunch, find a spot on the pontoon or the catamaran deck, stretch out your towel, grab your book and relax.
Your tour returns to Cairns at 5.30pm. Coach transfers can be arranged on request
Reef Fleet Terminal, 1 Spence Street, Cairns
61 7 4050 7333
Sunlover Reef Cruises