Corner Country Explorer 2026

Board your flight in Brisbane for a birds-eye view of the lush Darling Downs agricultural region before heading west to big sky country. 

You will be welcomed on arrival in Charleville by your Savannah Guides Operator driver-guides.  Explore Charleville on an insightful town tour before checking in to your accommodation. 

Early evening, visit the Charleville Cosmos Centre for the Big Sky Twilight Tour. See an amazing night sky brought into focus with the help of powerful Meade telescopes and listen to captivating stories from their experienced sky guide.

This morning, we’ll be joined by a local guide for a tour of the United States Army Air Force top secret sites.  Visit intriguing historical sites, understand the reasons behind choosing Charleville Queensland as a WWII base and learn about the highly classified computerised bomb aimer. 

Then, at the Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum, you’ll get a better understanding of one of the Outback’s most iconic services. 

Step inside the famous Hotel Corones, built during Charleville’s wool industry boom.  Join a guided tour with exclusive access to normally restricted areas of the hotel.  Hear the rags to riches story of local character Harry Corones, followed by lunch in the hotel dining room. 

Visit the Charleville Bilby Experience for a tour of the nocturnal house.  Learn about the incredible volunteer program underway to protect this environmental engineering marvel.

This morning, be inspired by the farmer who turned a long term dream into reality with a tour of the Charleville Date Farm.  Learn how dates grow and how reclaimed water came to be used for this environmentally friendly project.  Best of all, enjoy a delicious date loaf for morning tea. 

Heading west, we will tour The Lake. Located a short drive from downtown Quilpie, Lake Houdraman is a beautiful expanse of water set amongst shady gum trees.  Learn more about the property with a guided station tour and enjoy a delicious lunch. 

Following lunch, we take a look around the township of Quilpie on a guided tour, including visiting St. Finbarr’s Church, and admire the stunning Opal Altar, Lectern and Font. 

Arriving at our accommodation we will have some time to relax before enjoying an exclusive sunset tour to nearby rolling red sandhills where the contrasting outback colours dazzle.  After a big day of activities, enjoy a gourmet paddock-to-plate dinner experience.

This morning, we are treated to an exclusive station tour of Toogunna Plains.  Learn the history of this 4th generation family-owned sheep and cattle property. 

This afternoon, take some time to relax and enjoy the panoramic views of this vast open plain. 

This evening, we travel to Eromanga, the furthest town from the sea and home to Australia’s largest dinosaur.  Get up close to a 95-million-year-old dinosaur bone on the Australian Dinosaur Giants Tour at the Eromanga Natural History Museum.  Wander the Interpretive Corridor and see the Multi-Media Theatre before enjoying dinner at the Museum.

This morning, we visit the historic Noccundra Hotel, then cross the border at Warri Gate into Outback New South Wales. 

View the eastern sections of the Sturt National Park.  Traverse gibber plains and spectacular ‘jump-up’ country to Tibooburra. 

The striking granite boulders around Tibooburra are said to be remnants of a mass underground granite dome dating back around 410 million years.  Explore the National Park Interpretive Centre and Court House Museum.

Travel through Sturt National Park to Cameron Corner where the boundary lines of the states of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales meet. 

See the Strzelecki Desert, characterised by extensive red dune fields, home of the Dusky Hopping Mouse. 

Pass by large cattle stations then travel through the heart of the oil and gas fields to Innamincka, on the banks of the Cooper Creek.

Follow the Strzelecki Desert through flood plains, sand dunes and gibber country.  Travel through large stations including Arrabury which is over 700km2 in size. 

En-route to Birdsville, we call into Deon’s Lookout, the famous Betoota Hotel and the Dreamtime Serpent Indigenous artwork. 

Tonight, have a yarn with the locals and enjoy a dinner at the famous Birdsville Hotel.

This morning, visit the Wirrarri Centre to view work by local Indigenous artists. 

Next take a stroll to the Birdsville Billabong wit birdlife, fish and yabbies abound. 

Stand on the well-known Birdsville Racetrack and explore the Inland Hospital and Royal Hotel ruins; poignant reminders of a pre-federation metropolis. 

Tonight, we’ll toast the glorious outback sunset from Big Red Sand Dune, a 40-metre-high sand dune on the edge of the Simpson Desert.

Leaving Birdsville this morning, we’ll visit the Carcory Ruins, a heritage-listed homestead built in 1877 and abandoned after years of drought. 

Explore the remote town of Bedourie located on a sand dune, overlooking the Eyre Creek floodplain.  See the Royal Hotel in Bedourie, built in the 1880s with adobe bricks and still very much in its original condition.  Witness spectacular 360-degree views from the Vaughn Johnson Lookout. 

In Boulia we’ll visit the Min Min Encounter, a tribute to the famed mysterious Min Min Light phenomenon.  Explore the Stonehouse Museum, one of the first homes built in Western Queensland and see the impressive Marine Reptile Fossil exhibit.

Follow the spectacularly scenic drive between Boulia and Winton.  Call in at Cawnpore Lookout to view the stark flat-topped beauty of the surrounding Lillyvale Hills.  Visit the historic Middleton Hotel, built during the Cobb & Co. era.  It was originally a changing station where tired horses were replaced with fresh horses on the Winton to Boulia route.  Uncover the story behind the song that lives in the heart of all Australians at Winton’s Waltzing Matilda Centre. 

This afternoon, we visit the Australian Age of Dinosaurs, perched high on a spectacular mesa.  Join a guided interpretive tour of the laboratory, collection room and Dinosaur Canyon.  Take in the moment at our very special sunset barbecue overlooking the plains where dinosaurs once roamed!

Departing Winton, we follow the Matilda Way east to Longreach where we can spend a relaxed morning downtown. 

After lunch at The Vault, a local favourite, we will explore the fascinating themed galleries at the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and discover inspiring stories of our pioneering heroes. 

This evening, we visit the Qantas Founders Museum for the entertaining and informative Luminescent Longreach Sound & Light Show, which brings the 100-year-old-story of Qantas to life followed by an exclusive dinner surrounded by aviation history.  Wander through the interactive displays to discover the real Qantas story.

This morning, we board our heritage 2000-class Rail Motor enroute to the one pub town of Ilfracombe, with stories of nostalgia to tell your mates about for years to come.  Feel the freedom of the vast open plains before disembarking in Ilfracombe to explore the unique attractions in “the Hub of the West” like the Wellshot Centre and the Machinery Mile, and grab some lunch at the famous Wellshot Hotel. 

Late afternoon, join the Drovers Sunset Cruise on the beautiful Thomson River.  Unwind with on-board nibbles as you gaze out to a magnificent outback sunset. 

Enjoy live entertainment and a two-course camp oven themed dinner under the stars at Smithy’s Outback Dinner and Show.