8 Day South Australia Discovery: Wine, Wildlife, and Wonders
Roundtrip Adelaide (Tarndanya)
Embark on an extraordinary journey through South Australia, starting in Adelaide, the country’s wine and festival capital. Explore historic markets and enjoy local culinary delights before venturing into the Barossa Valley, one of Australia’s most celebrated wine regions, where boutique wineries and breathtaking vineyard views await. Then, travel to Kangaroo Island, often referred to as Australia’s Galapagos, where you’ll encounter native wildlife, dramatic coastal landscapes, and pristine natural beauty. With curated tours, luxurious accommodations, and immersive experiences, this itinerary showcases the very best of South Australia.
DIRECT TRAVEL EXCLUSIVE BONUS: AUD $100 Food & Beverage credit per room per stay at select hotels, when you travel by March 31, 2026.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Adelaide (Tarndanya)
• Adelaide Central Market Food Walking Tour.
• Enjoy some leisure time, explore the city’s wide streets, charming cafes, and vibrant cultural landmarks, or ride the tram to Glenelg beach.
Barossa Valley Wine Region
• Full-day wine tour of boutique Barossa wineries, featuring tastings and a gourmet lunch with vineyard views.
• Visit charming towns like Tanunda, Angaston, and Lyndoch.
Kangaroo Island
• Explore the bushliand wiht a guide on the Island Life Tour, spot kangaroos, wallabies, and rare wildlife, and enjoy a private tour of Seal Bay Conservation Park.
• Discover the rugged beauty of Flinders Chase National Park while learning about fire ecology and native flora
• Savor elegant picnic lunches in bushland settings and clifftop locations, paired with South Australian wines.
ACCOMMODATIONS AND OTHER INCLUSIONS
• Adelaide: Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets (2 Nights).
• Barossa Valley: Barossa Weintal Hotel (2 Nights ).
• Kangaroo Island: Ozone Hotel Kangaroo Island (3 Nights).
• Shared Transfers between airports, hotels, and some tour locations.
From the wine-filled charm of the Barossa Valley to the untouched wilderness of Kangaroo Island, this South Australian itinerary offers the perfect mix of indulgence and exploration.
Whether you’re savoring Shiraz in the Barossa, strolling through Adelaide’s vibrant markets, or spotting seals and kangaroos on Kangaroo Island, every moment is designed to leave you with incredible memories.
DAY-BY-DAY ITINERARY
Consider this itinerary a starting point for your dream getaway. Our team specializes in creating tailor-made journeys, so you can customize every detail—from the destinations to the activities—to ensure your travel experience is exactly what you envision.Day 1: Adelaide (Tarndanya)
Arrive Adelaide
Accommodations: Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets, an IHG HotelIncludes: Private Car/Driver Transfer from Adelaide International Airport to your hotel.
EXCLUSIVE BONUS: AUD $100 Food & Beverage credit per room per stay.
The wine and festival capital of Australia, Adelaide/Tarndanya is a place to experience the buzz, culture, and convenience of a city without the frustrations. The River Torrens/Karrawirra Parri cuts through the city. The city centre, surrounded by parklands, is a charming blend of historic buildings, wide streets, groovy shops, and a huge variety of street cafes and restaurants. Visit the largest undercover market in the southern hemisphere and taste the best of South Australia at the Adelaide Central Market, or enjoy a ride on Adelaide’s tram from the city centre to the historic yet vibrant beachside suburb of Glenelg. The city also provides a great launching point to the many attractions surrounding Adelaide, including world class wine regions, the Australian Outback, Kangaroo Island, the Eyre Peninsula, and much more.
Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets, an IHG Hotel is superbly located in the centre of Adelaide, just moments away from Central Markets and Chinatown. Housed on the site of a former textile factory, the property’s “Raw and Refined” design ethos celebrates the neighbourhood’s commercial past with an exciting blend of heritage-listed and modern architecture, as well as eye-catching contemporary design features. The neighbourhood boasts a vibrant culinary and produce hub, with a strong sense of character and community, nestled into an eclectic pocket in the heart of the city. The modern colour palette is brightened by natural light and colourful wall art, inspired by neighbourhood festival posters. The guest rooms are compact, but space is well utilised. Locally influenced decor is celebrated throughout the guest rooms. A copper ensemble serves as desk, hanging and storage space, which is completely open, saving guests from hunting around wardrobes or potentially leaving items behind. The bedhead is a festival poster; light switches are easy to flick from mood to reading to night. The bathroom is contained behind frosted glass, with copper fixtures harking back to South Australia’s copper mining history.
This afternoon is at leisure to relax and explore on your own.Day 2: Adelaide (Tarndanya)
Food Walking Tour.
Accommodations: Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets, an IHG HotelIncludes: Breakfast. Morning Food Walking tour with local guide, samples including tasting native foods platter, cheese, boiled lolly, bliss ball, South American empanada.
Morning Adelaide Central Market Food Walking Tour: This 1-hour walking tour of the Adelaide Central Market provides context of the market’s 150-year history, local produce and international flavours. This easy introduction to the market will showcase numerous stalls and reveal their stories as you take in a precinct with more than 150 years of history. Visit the oldest remaining stall and learn how the market came to exist; discover local delicacies and explore how multiculturalism fits into the area today. Sample tasty morsels to kickstart your morning while being shown the market by a local guide. Be sure to bring a shopping bag – you will want to go back and make purchases at our stops after finishing your tour! At the conclusion of your tour, make your own way to your accommodation.
This afternoon is at leisure to relax and explore on your own.Day 3: Barossa Valley
Adelaide to Barossa Valley
Accommodations: Barossa Weintal HotelIncludes: Breakfast. Private Car/Driver from Adelaide City to Barossa Valley hotel
EXCLUSIVE BONUS: AUD $100 Food & Beverage credit per room per stay.
The Barossa Valley is located an hour's drive from Adelaide City and is one of Australia's premier wine regions. The area consists of many small towns.
Tanunda historically has always been the heart of the Barossa region and its history is only a small part of its charms. A vibrant and growing community, its home to some of Australia’s and the world’s best-loved wines. Explore the magnificently restored Chateau Tanunda. Nuriootpa, meaning ‘the meeting place’ is surrounded by vineyards. The town's vine-lined main street becomes an amazing array of colours during autumn and is the business centre of the Barossa as well as home to some of the region’s best-known cellar doors including Penfolds, Elderton and, just a few kilometres from the town, Wolf Blass Visitor Centre.
Angaston is at the "English" or eastern end of the Barossa and was named after one of South Australia's founders, George Fife Angas, who sponsored many of the region's early German settlers. The Angas family was a major influence for many generations. Lyndoch has evolved with the times into a mecca of contemporary ambience while maintaining its English foundations and strong German influences. Nestled at the fertile base of the Barossa Ranges, the town once featured the first flour mill north of Adelaide. This rich soil today boasts several of the Barossa’s finest wineries. Buy traditional German bread at the local bakery and pick up a stick of South Australia's award- winning best smoky mettwurst. In Williamstown, of special interest is the Whispering Wall, the huge curved retaining wall of the Barossa Reservoir that's about 140 metres long and an acoustic miracle. Built between 1899 and 1903, the dam was a revolutionary engineering feat for its day and attracted attention from all over the world. It continues to attract attention - you can speak in a normal voice at one end of the wall and people at the other end of the wall can hear you clearly!
Barossa Weintal Hotel is located in the heart of the Barossa Valley, within walking distance of several wineries, 2 kilometres from Tanunda and 8.2 kilometres from Angaston. It offers modern and comfortable guest rooms.Day 4: Barossa Valley
Uncork the Barossa Valley tour.
Accommodations: Barossa Weintal HotelIncludes: Breakfast. Selected Adelaide and Barossa Valley Hotel pick up and drop off, lunch with beverage, standard wine tastings, bottled water.
Full Day Uncork the Barossa Valley:
On this 6.5 hour tour Uncork the historic Barossa with your local guide, discovering boutique wineries that are big on character. Taste some of the best wines the region has to offer, avoiding the crowds. Known for producing hearty Shiraz and red blends, the Barossa is perfect for the red wine lover. Visiting four boutique wineries in a day, your wine-guides will create a unique and engaging experience for you to level-up your wine knowledge. Enjoy lunch with a view overlooking the vineyards and sit back and enjoy a variety of dishes to share as selected by the chef from the ever-changing seasonal menu. Upon completion of the tour you will be transferred to your Barossa Valley accommodation.Day 5: Kangaroo Island
Travel from Barossa Valley
Accommodations: Ozone Hotel Kangaroo IslandIncludes: Private Car/Driver from Barossa Valley to Adelaide Domestic Airport. Pick up and drop off from Kingscote Airport, 2 x full day shared touring, all admission fees and on island transfers, 2 x lunch, 3 x breakfast, 3 x dinner and 3 nights’ accommodation.
Widely acclaimed as Australia's Galapagos, Kangaroo Island is home to an abundance of native wildlife and spectacular natural attractions. Covering almost 4,500 square kilometres, it is Australia's third largest island and offers the best of the mainland on a smaller, more intimate scale. With more than one third of the island declared as Conservation or National Park, visitors readily come face-to-face with prolific bird and animal species, such as the New Zealand fur seals, koalas, kangaroos, Australian sea lions, ospreys, echidnas, and much much more. Flanked by the indomitable Southern Ocean, dramatic coastal vistas and sculptured landscapes lie unspoiled by development and riddled with sheer limestone cliffs, sheltered coves, rocky headlands and deserted stretches of sugar-white sand.
Upon arrival you will be met by your guide and transferred to your accommodation. Enjoy a delicious home cooked meal at your accommodation this evening. Sleep tight and get ready for you Kangaroo Island In Style stay.Day 6 and 7: Kangaroo Island
Accommodations: Ozone Hotel Kangaroo IslandIncludes: Breakfast. Island Life & Flinders Chase Focus Tours.
Enjoy breakfast this morning before being met by your guide for a full day of touring each day.
Island Life Tour: Travel through the Island’s most productive country to the north coast. Walk through the bush with your guide – through strangely shaped trees learning what makes that noise, whose tracks are those, and who left THAT little pile there? Look for small wallabies almost extinct on the mainland, a kangaroo found only on Kangaroo Island and a variety of other birds, plants and animals. Break for lunch at a private bush camp and enjoy a delicious meal featuring King George whiting (local sea fish), fresh salads and fine South Australian wines. At Seal Bay Conservation Park take a private tour with your guide among Australian sea-lions on a beautiful sandy beach – an experience similar to that of the Galapagos. Watch pups nursing or playing in the surf, see old bulls bearing the scars of territorial disputes and learn about their unique breeding biology.
Flinders Chase Focus Tour:Begin the day travelling through some of the fire-affected landscapes of Kangaroo Island, which are recovering quickly following generous winter rains. Learn about fire ecology and how nature deals with fire. Some of our native flora species only flower following fire! Travel into Flinders Chase National Park and explore the massive shapes of Remarkable Rocks, a natural sculpture perched impossibly on top a granite dome plunging into the ocean Break for an elegant picnic lunch in the bush, or if weather permits, on a spectacular clifftop. Evidence of the power of the Southern Ocean swell continues at Admirals Arch – a coastal grotto which provides a haul out for a large colony of Long-nosed fur seals which swim effortlessly through crashing waves.Day 8: Adelaide (Tarndanya)
Travel from Kangaroo Island, end of tour.Includes: Breakfast.
Enjoy breakfast at your accommodation before your transfer to Kingscote Airport for your return flight to Adelaide. This marks the end of your South Australia Tour. 
