Great short tour if you want highlights of the stunning West Macs and a general intro to the Alice Springs area. Our guide Ruben was very knowledgeable and generous with his insights into the land, wildlife, culture and life in Alice Springs. The scenery is beautiful and there's enough time to wander around each site (all very easy for any fitness level). Then still enough time left in the day to explore the town - or do the guided town tour if you want.

A great 4 1/2 hr tour. Its expensive to get to the locations on the itinerary by taxi. So coupled with excellent commentary and an hour at each venue this tour was good value for money.

Both our expensive hiking shoe soles got ruined while sitting at the sounds of silence dinner -they must have been eaten by bull ants but I haven’t seen anything about this on trip advisor or in any reviews

The views were phenomenal and definitely worth the walking. A wonderful and unique part of our country. Definitely a great experience.

This was a fabulous tour!! Our guide was awesome. Informative and the afternoon tea was great! The walking trails were not to long or short.

A really lovely snapshot of Alice Springs, informative, quirky and diverse. Peter did a great job as tour leader, cheerful, chatty and full of information. It was very hot, the bus was cool and there was plenty of cold filtered water. Lots of flies at the Old Telegraph Station.

David, our guide, knew so much about Alice Springs - amazing! A comfortable, small van ride with tea and scones at the Park.

I did this tour on Sunday october 2023, first stop after long drive(120km) is Hermannsburg historical precinct. unfortunately, this precinct will be closed till April 2024; so we just had morning tea/coffee outside the attraction. There is church service in the nearby lutheran church. Then we headed west to the unsealed road to Palm valley; it’s fun, bumpy jumpy ride along the way to the first stop(picnic area) for toilet, After that we stilopped at cycad gorges where santuary of ancient trees thrives for thousand years. Finally, we arrived Palm valley, nature wonders that palm trees grow in isolated area , thousand miles from their counterparts; I did bush walk along the valley then climbed up to the ridge , walking back to the car park. It concluded my tour with wonderful experience.

Excellent commentary and agenda. David was a wonderful,engaging and inclusive. guide. His wealth of local knowledge provided insight on all aspects of amazing Alice Springs. Highly recommend.

My wife and I undertook this fantastic and worthwhile tour to different highlight venues in Alice Springs. We were so fortunate to have Barry, our Coach Driver and very knowledgeable tour guide. The first stop was ANZAC lookout which not only gave a great outlook of Alice Springs but more importantly the prior and current countries in which our brave service personnel served/and are currently serving. We were then taken to the studio of School of the Air. For those who aren’t aware, this educational facility offers distant education to remote communities and properties which is a must for our young upcoming children. The next stop was at the historical Overland Telegraph Line which many years ago joined Australia to the global telegraph network. This is a historical and worthwhile visit. The Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS). An amazing medical service for a vast and remote country such as Australia. It goes without saying that for not only emergency situations, this service offers general medical professionals to many remote communities being attended to by air. We next visited the Reptile Park. It was an interesting insight into the reptiles. Our guide was very animated and informative, recommend this also,

On the top of the ticket it say 7:00 in bold for the pick up time, then in the fine print it provides earlier times for pick up by hotel. We were 10 minutes late for the listed hotel pick up time but early for the 7 AM time. The bus had left and made no effort to call or talk to the front desk of our hotel (per the company this is company policy). We tried to call them (again before 7 AM) but the company isn’t actually open until 9 AM. Our hotel was somehow able to get a hold of them and they said they would try and reach the driver and then hung up on us. The have offered a ticket on the bus for the next day, however that wasn’t an option for us due to hotels being booked already. While we may have missed the pick up time by 10 minutes, the situation could have been avoided if we were able to reach someone immediately or if they had attempted to contact us.

After two and a bit years of Covid enforced “home-stay”😊, we finally started our touring again. As a “test case” as well as revision of touring skills, we’ve chosen to tour within our home country first. As I had never been to the interior of Australia, Alice Spring was going to be our “pseudo overseas“ tour. At the time of travelling, the airlines were not in full capacity and as a result of this limitation, the plane flew to Sydney from Melbourne first before heading back west to Alice Spring. Travelling during the month of June means more “user friendly” weather. The five days we were there, the top temperature never exceeds 23C. Yes, Uluru is very unique and with spectacular colour changes all the time (especially sun rise and sun set, you obviously need to stay at least one night at Uluru). We joined a group tour with sunset BBQ dinner under the stars. We were given an astrology 101 presentation after the dinner and the whole experience was wonderful. The coach driver had informed us that there were tourists who travelled on their own mistook Mt. Conner as Uluru. But from a distance I am not surprised that some people fell for it. Obviously Mt. Conner is inside a private property whereas Uluru has lots of tourists around all the time. We did the King’s Canyon walking trail (again with a tour guide, note this trail has no toilet facility)) and it could be challenging for some of tourists. We were told if we could not complete the first 100 steps, then we could not continue the walk (all up about 3-3.5 hours). The walk was worth the effort as all the beautiful scenery can only be reached by foot. Our tour also included Kata Tjuta, Standley Chasm, Ellery Creek Big Hole and MacDonnell Ranges. Together with the tyranny of distance and limited roads around Alice Springs (quite a few doubling back from one place to another) touring this place requires a good solid research and planning, and it pays to allow more time for the whole trip. Food could be quite expensive as compared to other regional towns. In the end it was a bit of an effort to tour but it is worth the trouble.

We were a small group of six and Barry was our excellent driver who was very informative about the locations we were seeing on the 4 hour tour. This was a very interesting insight into this town, so remote from other civilisation. We visited ANZAC Hill, the School of the Air, the first telegraph station and the Royal Flying Doctors, but the unexpected highlight was the final stop, the reptile centre. We had assumed this was just going to be a look at some interesting Australian critters, but it was actually a talk and tour by Rex- what a character! Extremely informative about how dangerous snakes can be and the consequences of not giving them due respect. A real eye opener. Not to be missed.

Like many of the previous reviewers, I can highly recommend this tour....even though the drive up the Finke River was the bumpiest journey I've made in a 4WD vehicle. Our driver Martin did an excellent job. The combination of the visit to the historic Hermannsberg Mission site and then the chance to explore the landscape of this extraordinary part of the world was a wonderful balance.

Tour cancelled last minute. No reason given. No phone call. No e mail Supposed to get money back but probably have to wait 3 weeks. Notice at pickup point. One tour via aat kings still running but sold out. No apology