Length: 20 days
Price: AUD$14,999.00
Starts: on 7th of each months
Group Size: 8
Day 1
Arrival in Melbourne. Meeting a guide and checking in the hotel. Free time.
Day 2
Departure into gold triangle via Ballarat. Visit Sovereign Hill - prominent provincial town built during Great Australian Gold Rush of 1850.
Discover for yourself beauty and power of gold. Visit the museum with impressive expensive collection of gold nuggets, alluvial gold, priceless
artifacts of the period and gold coins. Stay overnight in caravan park.
Meals: breakfast and dinner.
Day 3
Settle in a tent camp set in the gold woods. Area bordering Ballarat, Weddernburn and Bendigo is considered World most saturated with gold nuggets.
It is called "Golden Triangle".
In the morning personal training with tour guide in:
- using metal detectors
- using GPS devices
- map reading
- gold prospecting
In the afternoon - gold prospecting.
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 4
Gold prospecting with gold detector. Staying in caravan park overnight. Resting, fishing.
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 5
Settle in the tent camp. Gold prospecting using metal detector.
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 6
In the morning - gold prospecting. Departure to mountain region. Arrival to Mansfield. Stay in the motel overnight. Incredible views of Great Dividing Range.
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Day 7
Moving into the mountain regions. Crossing mountain rivers in 4 wheel drives. View remnants of ancient equipment left by gold prospectors from last century.
Old gold mines in deep creeks. Settling in the tent camp on the bank of the river. Gold prospecting using metal detector and gold panning in the river using our exclusive "GoldCleaner" device.
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 8
Gold prospecting for the whole day. In the late evening arrival into Wood Point. This small township is hidden in the mountains since last century.
Stay overnight in the historic hotel.
Meals: breakfast, lunch.
Day 9 - Day 11
Flight in the chopper into remote mountain regions. Explore untouched gold saturated location. A lot of regions have not been explored properly because of remoteness.
Using the chopper will help to accomplish this task. After the reconnaissance, settle in the tent camp. More reconnaissance and gold prospecting for 3.5 days.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 12
Transportation to Melbourne. Check in the hotel, free time.
Meals: breakfast, lunch.
Day 13
Melbourne airport transfer. Flight to Cairns. Check in the hotel, free time.
Meals: breakfast.
Day 14
Snorkelling in the coral reefs, ocean fishing, spearfishing. Great Barrier Reef is a unique archipelago. It includes a chain of coral reefs and small islands
that stretches along the North East coast of Australia for 2300km. Return to Cairns, stay in the hotel overnight.
Meals: breakfast.
Day 15 - Day 18
Instructional training in safety in Australian tropical forest. Departure into gold saturated locations. Gold prospecting in remote regions in the North of Queensland (Cape York).
Driving in 4 wheel drives into Palmer River goldfield. Reconnaissance, settle in the tent camp. Gold prospecting for 3 days.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 19
Return to Cairns. Fly to Sydney. Magical night in Sydney. Check in the hotel, free time.
Meals: breakfast, dinner.
Day 20
Free time of gold prospectors in Sydney. Airport transfer, departure home.
Meals: breakfast.
20 days in Golden Australia - Australian Adventure Travel.