Wildlife Holidays in Australia
Tell me about Australia …
With its first class cuisine, accommodation and fine wines Australia offers a comfortable and safe environment in which to take a holiday, and a tempting alternative to a chilly British winter.
Australia offers a wonderful variety of scenery and habitats: rich rainforests in tropical Queensland, temperate forests of south-western Australia and Tasmania's wilderness regions, lush forests of the Blue Mountains, arid deserts of the interior, warm tropical waters around the Great Barrier and Ningaloo Reefs, and the cold waters of the Southern Ocean.
For those preferring to travel during our summer months, the outback (Ayer's Rock and the Olgas) and the north of Australia are at their best during this time of year.
What’s special about the wildlife?
Isolated from the rest of the world for 60 million years, Australia is home to a unique flora and fauna.
Australia is home to the unusual group of mammals called marsupials which include such extraordinary looking species as the Platypus, and the country holds more endemic birds (and bird families) than any other.
It has an outstanding flora.
Naturetrek tours to Australia
Naturetrek's selection of wildlife holidays and natural history tours to Australia includes:
- The fabulous flora of Western Australia (one of the world's botanical hotspots)
- The wildlife & wilderness of Tasmania – from possums to Pademelons
- Birds, mammals & marine life of Queensland
- A bargain tour to look for Western Australia’s endemic birds