Southern Wonders Wildflower Trail

Welcome to a land of extremes: the world’s biggest collection of wildflowers, its longest golf course, and its most otherworldly outdoor gallery. Not to mention Australia’s whitest beach and its biggest outback town. Explore it all on an epic seven-day, 2,000-kilometre adventure of the best of the Golden Outback. Leave the lights of Perth behind and road trip through the planet’s largest unfragmented temperate woodlands – the Great Western Woodlands – and on to the wide-open Wheatbelt roads, flanked by wildflowers. Stop by Hyden to see the world’s most awe-inspiring inland break – the 15-metre high, 110-metre long curved granite wall of the phenomenal Wave Rock. Gorgeous Esperance is blessed with beauty. At nearby Lucky Bay, you’ll experience aquamarine waters, otherworldly tangerine and purple sunsets and pristine snow-white beaches – plus the friendliest kangaroos you’ll ever meet. Set your radar inland to legendary outback boomtown Kalgoorlie, Australia’s largest inland hub. The grand buildings along the main street whisper rich tales of the past, as do the gold bars and nuggets in the museums. Wander over the Golden Mile – once considered the richest square mile on earth – to Boulder, pulling on a hardhat to see the colossal Super Pit goldmine in action. Swap boomtowns for ghost towns and explore a string of abandoned goldrush hamlets along the Golden Quest Discovery Trail. Deeper into the outback, the world’s largest solo outdoor art exhibition occupies Lake Ballard, where 51 of Sir Antony Gormley’s evocative statues stand frozen on an endless white saltpan. Arcing back to Kalgoorlie, tee-off at the Nullarbor Links, the red-dirt terrain extending 1,365 kilometres to form the world’s longest golf course. Then it’s back to Perth, where from September to November, the outback puts on the biggest wildflower show you’ll ever see.