PERSONALISED TOURS

These are our premium tours with personalised service. You and your party, from 2 people, will have your own guide. No outsiders will be added to the group. For most tours, you can decide whether you want a half day or full day outing; and you can choose options to suit your interests, including sightseeing, fishing, tennis, golf, bushwalking or sheep shearing. You can mix and match, combining sightseeing with shopping. Just ask!

Each tour includes pick up and drop off from your hotel or other accommodation, or airport or other transport terminal. At meal times our guests enjoy fine dining, homestead cooking or gourmet bush picnics.

4PT1 Half Day -
8PT2 Full Day - Canberra, the Bush Capital, the Heart of the Nation

An introductory tour of the national capital, exploring its history since the arrival of Europeans, and the changes that came with Federation. Visit Parliament House; the Parliamentary Triangle; the unique embassy area; and your choice of city landmarks, nature reserves or early settlers' houses.

Canberra's lakeside setting

4PT3 Half Day -
8PT4 Full Day - Canberra, a City of Gardens

A trimmed hedge maze at Cockington Green

Includes an introductory tour of the national capital with an emphasis on 'a garden city in natural bushland'. Visit a historic garden; a National Trust classified garden; the Australian National Botanic Gardens; Cockington Green; the National Rose Gardens and a range of sites whose landscaping is a significant element in Canberra's design.

4PT5 Half Day -
8PT6 Full Day - Canberra's Art, Architecture and Aboriginal Heritage

Canberra's early federal capital architecture is unique. Discover our classic buildings; monuments and historic sites, galleries, private studios and a print-making workshop featuring aboriginal and Torres Strait artists.

Sculptures in hidden places

4PT7 Half Day -
8PT8 Full Day - Canberra's History, Heritage and House Museums

A slab hut close to the centre of the city Relive Canberra's past through the architecture, historic houses and properties of yesteryear, including Calthorpes' House, a time capsule of the 1920s; Lanyon Homestead and Cuppacumbalong.

4PT9 Half Day -
8PT10 Full Day - Country Properties and Natural History

Visit rural properties, national parks and Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve close to Canberra, with an optional visit to NASA's Deep Space Communications Complex also at Tidbinbilla. Australian birds and animals can be seen in their natural surroundings. Discover where the aborigines gathered in the nineteenth century and see a unique aboriginal site.

Lanyon Homestead

4PT11 Half Day -
8PT12 Full Day - Discover the Australian Alps

Namadgi National Park

Within one hour of marvellous Canberra is Namadgi National Park. An easy walk, (one hour each way), will take you through open grasslands and snow gum woodlands to an aboriginal rock shelter. The abundant wildlife, the solitude and beauty will remain with you forever. Refreshments will be served on the walk and lunch at a nearby property could complete the wonderfully relaxing day.

8PT13 Full Day - Away for a Day

This relaxing outing includes a visit to Cooma Cottage near Yass, to the west of Canberra, the home of explorer Hamilton Hume; exploration of a country garden; a lavender farm; a glass artist's studio and Canberra's award-winning cool climate wineries. A visit to Cockington Green, noted for its miniature buildings and manicured gardens depicting English village life, is an option.

An elegant wrought iron balcony in the town of Yass

8PT14 Full Day - Country Colonial Capers

Visiting a colonial homestead Inspect historic Braidwood and Bungendore villages, and visit two private properties with magnificent gardens and early colonial homesteads, one with its original furnishings.

4PT15 Half Day -
8PT16 Full Day - Shoppers' Tour

'Behind the scenes' shopping: fine arts, crafts, prints and aboriginal print-making; books; fashion; jewellery, including Australian opals, pearls and sapphires; sheep or kangaroo skins and/or needlework. Original designs in silver

PT17  - Hosted Farm Stay

A place for relaxation

Extend your visit to Canberra by experiencing an Australian farm stay on a beautiful and historic property. Overnight accommodation includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Food is simple, fresh and prepared with local ingredients where possible. The farm is surrounded by rugged bushland and set on the Shoalhaven River, a favourite subject of Arthur Boyd, Australia's best-known contemporary artist. You will walk in the bush-covered hills with their white gum forests; swim in the river; relax in the history-filled house (built in 1830) or make friends with a pet kangaroo. The exceptional gardens surrounding the homestead were chosen for the Australian entry in a book entitled 'The Best Gardens Around the World'.