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Wild luxury

Choose your own adventure

WORDS KATE ROBERTSON

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Four luxury stays. Nine cultural experiences. One extraordinary Australia.

Australia does remote luxury differently. Here, it’s less about thread count and more about indulging in what’s outside the door; 65,000 years of living culture, extraordinary landscapes, and the kind of experiences no five-star hotel in the world can replicate.

What kind of lux escape is calling you?

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Romantic

Beauty, connection and a little magic.

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Wild

Nature, so close you can hear it breathing.

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Unique

Rare experiences and unexpected stories.

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Chill

Slow days and wide, open spaces.

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Your ultimate romantic stay match

Silky Oaks

Treehouse-style luxury tucked into ancient rainforest overlooking the Mossman River. Think rainforest hikes, river swims in mineral rich healing waters, meditation, breathwork, forest bathing and a healing spa.

Silky Oaks
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Bamurru Plains

Just 12 wilderness bungalows overlook the Mary River floodplain, home to prolific bird and wildlife. This is wild bush luxury, an intimate lodge where the rhythms of safari-style days include airboat rides, 4WD excursions and expert guides.

Bamurru Plains
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Mt Mulligan Lodge

A luxury outback retreat on a 26,000 hectare working cattle station at the base of the dramatic 18km long limestone escarpment of Ngarrabullgan. Remote, exclusive, genuine, Northern Outback Queensland hospitality and adventures.

Mt Mulligan Lodge
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Your ultimate chill stay match

El Questro Homestead

A secluded and long-respected luxury hideaway perched cliffside overlooking the Chamberlain River. Days here are filled with exploration of one of The Kimberley’s most epic landscapes including spectacular gorges and waterfalls underpinned by warm, intuitive outback hospitality.

El Questro Homestead
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Your ultimate romantic tour matches

1. Walkabout Cultural Adventures

For romantics drawn to beautiful places with a story to tell, explore rainforest, mangroves and coastal Country with a Kuku Yalanji guide, gaining privileged access to places, stories and knowledge that reveal a deeper side of the landscape.

Walkabout Cultural Adventures

2. Ngadiku Dreamtime Walk

For a more reflective kind of romance, begin with a traditional smoking ceremony before walking beneath the rainforest canopy with a Kuku Yalanji guide, sharing stories and cultural knowledge that bring you closer to Mossman Gorge.

Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre

3. Janbal Gallery

For romantics with a creative streak, spend time with Kuku Yalanji artist Binna Swindley, learning the stories, symbols and colours of Country before creating a piece of your own.

Janbal Gallery

Your ultimate wild tour matches

1. Rock Shelter Art Tour

Go deeper into the wilds of Arnhem Land, with guided access to sandstone shelters filled with remarkably preserved rock art spanning thousands of years, and stories that reveal their meaning and cultural significance.

Davidsons Arnhemland Safaris

2. Yellow Water Billabong Cruise

Keep the wildlife encounters coming as you glide through Kakadu’s wetlands, where expert guides offer a deeper understanding of the waterways and the enduring connection Bininj/Mungguy people have with this Country.

Kakadu Tourism

3. Sandstone Escarpments

Traverse Cahills Crossing into Arnhem Land, to access a landscape few visitors get to experience, travelling across floodplains and past sandstone escarpments to ancient rock-art sites, and renowned community-owned art centre, Injalak Arts.

Kakadu Cultural Tours
Injalak Arts Centre

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Rock Art Galleries

For travellers chasing something truly rare, fly by helicopter into remote Quinkan Country and walk with Kuku Yalanji guide Johnny Murison to extraordinary rock-art galleries hidden deep within the landscape.

Jarramali Rock Art Tours

Your ultimate chill tour matches

1. Injiid Marlabu Calls Us

Slow the adventure and experience El Questro through the culture of its Ngarinyin Traditional Owners, with a smoking and cleansing ceremony opening the door to language, stories and knowledge passed down through generations.

El Questro

2. Munbula cruise

Let the river set the pace on a relaxed cruise through Chamberlain Gorge with El Questro’s Traditional Owners, gaining a perspective on Country that goes far beyond the view from the water.

El Questro

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