#6 - The Savannah Way (Cairns to Broome)
Kununurra, Western Australia, AustraliaLength: 2,340.6 mi • Est. Multi-day
The Savannah Way is one of Australia's iconic multi-day adventure drives, and a real road-tripping journey into the outback. The route links Tropical Northern Queensland in Cairns with Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. With this road-trip, it is ideal to keep a loose itinerary that allows for extended stays at destinations and towns which each have their own great surrounding areas and detours to set off and explore. The entire shares the transitions through diverse terrain, from low grassland expanses of the tropical savanna, to rocky outback country.
Starting through Queensland's Gulf, stops might include the Atherton Tablelands, Undara Lava Tubes, Boodjamulla National Park, Chillagoe, Mount Surprise, Georgetown, Forsayth, Croydon, Normanton, Karumba and Burketown.
Next, the central section of the route passes through what is referred to as the 'Top End' of the Northern Territory, where it is likely you'll make stops at Timber Creek, Katherine, Daly Waters, Cape Crawford and Borroloola. Be sure to spend some time at the spectacular Kakadu National Park, which is a World Heritage-listed park not only for its ecological and geological significance, but for being a living cultural landscape for Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years (https://www.alltrails.com/parks/australia/northern-territory/kakadu-national-park). Swing by some of the natural hot springs too, including the Bitter Springs (Mataranka), Tjuwaliyn (Douglas) and the Katherine Thermal Pools.
In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, some stops to make would include Fitzroy Crossing, Derby, Halls Creek, Kununurra and Wyndham. To name just a few, some beautiful sites to visit include Windjana Gorge, Tunnel Creek National Park, Wolfe Creek Crater, Parrys Lagoon Nature Reserve, Litchfield National Park, and several Indigenous artist communities and art galleries would be worth the stop.
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