Day 1 Tanunuda
to Wilpena Resort 5 ½ Hours
Depart Tanunda Weintal resort 9:00am
and travel by luxury 5 star coach to Wilpena Pound
Resort in the Flinders Ranges. Arrive approx 2:30
pm. A picnic lunch is provided on the way. Wine &
cheese tasting on arrival after the allocation of
rooms. Scenic air-flights will be available. Take
time for a stroll and take in the surrounding “bush”.
Official tour launch & presentation dinner at
7:00pm in resort function room is included.
Day 2 Wilpena to Quorn 123 kms
The ride from the “Red Ochre” starts
today. Assemble for 9:30 am departure. Take time and
admire the majestic ramparts of this ancient land
as you travel south through native pine forests and
across vast flat planes. Hawker, the next town is
52 km south and is the lunch stop. It will be pre
ordered & waiting for you. Enjoy the outback hospitality
of this small town, and then continue south another
71 km to Quorn arriving approximately 4:00pm. Explore
the town & its history, have a coffee at the Austral
with your tour friends before you settle in to your
room. Dinner at the Austral Hotel at 6:30pm will be
something you would not have expected in this small
out-back town.
Day 3 Quorn to Melrose 98 kms
Breakfast at the Austral Hotel, then depart Quorn
at approximately 9:30 am for a very picturesque 40
km ride through Pichi Richi Pass to Stirling North.
Lunch will be provided today. The next 24 km stage
we’ve called Roubaix. Not as bad as the French
cobbles but it will give you a feel for the real thing
and the view is splendid. After a brief drink stop
and rest another 34 km of good road with some climbing
as you negotiate Horrock’s Pass. Take in the
views over the gulf and then a very easy ride past
centaury old river gums to Melrose at the base of
Mt. Remarkable. Take a short bush walk or just relax
at the hotel. Something different again for dinner
at 6:30pm at the quirky Northern Star Hotel.
Day 4 Melrose to Jamestown 120kms
Today is another great ride. After breakfast at the
Northern Star, be ready to leave at 9:30am for the
first 55 km stage. A 15km warm up before descending
Pt. Germain Gorge, followed by a refreshment stop
at the base to prepare you for the climb back up the
gorge (it looks different going the other way). Then
on to Wirrabara for well deserved lunch at the famous
bakery. You won’t believe the selection on the
menu. After lunch, 56 km continuing through this beautiful
country to Laura, the home of SA’s Golden North
Ice Cream. Try some at the Laura Lolly Shop in the
main street. Then onto Gladstone and past the historic
gaol following the trans continental east-west Indian-Pacific
Railway to Jamestown. Take time to reflect as you
enjoy an alfresco drink at the Commercial Hotel when
you reach Jamestown. Dinner 6:30pm tonight in the
Commercial Hotel.
Day 5 Jamestown to Clare 125 kms
Assemble after breakfast outside the Commercial Hotel
and enjoy that last minute coffee before we depart
at 9:00am for the 80 km leg before lunch. Always changing
countryside today from pine forest plantations to
cropping & sheep grazing country, copper mines
to wine country all in one day. Have a cappuccino
or a latté at Spalding one of the last places
you’d expect to find a coffee shop then stop
for lunch at the historic mining town of Burra, once
the largest town outside Adelaide. After lunch a very
pleasant 40 km ride to Clare. Relax, have a spa and
enjoy the facilities at the Quality Resort Clare Country
Club. Or maybe some wine tasting at one of the local
wineries before dinner in the resort dining room at
6:30pm.
Day 6 Clare to Tanunda 120kms
Some excellent scenery today as we travel 88 km through
the Clare Valley via Mintaro, Auburn and Marabel to
our lunch stop at the Wheatsheaf Hotel at Allendale
North just outside Kapunda. After lunch the 32km ride
into the Barossa Valley will take your breath away.
We ride through Nuriootpa the major commercial centre
of the Valley, past small wineries and winery giants
to Tanunda and the Weintal Resort. Dinner tonight
at the Weintal Resort 6:30pm.
Day 7 Tanunda to Tanunda 65 kms
A more leisurely ride today with a taste of red wine.
After breakfast, and a later 10:00am start, we take
in some of the beauty of this region. A short 60 km
exploring the Barossa Valley riding part of the Tour
Down Under course through manicured vineyards then
returning to Tanunda for lunch at Turkey Flat Vineyards
for some real Barossa food and wine. The afternoon
is then yours to do some exploring of your own or
just relaxing. Tonight we take you out to dinner.
Our final dinner and special presentation in the Miranda
Winery Cellar Restaurant, you will be coached to and
from the event so you can indulge in some exquisite
food and wine. We have some surprises for you too.
Pick-up 6:00pm & return 10:30pm.
Day 8 Tanunda to Tanunda 55 kms
Our last day. After last night probably a later and
slower start - we aim to be on the road by 10:00am.We
have a shorter ride, but there is a slight catch….Menglers
Hill! Today we give you panoramic views of the lush
Barossa Valley plus the natural beauty of Kaiser Stuhl
National Park and of course quiet roads. A late morning
coffee stop at Angaston’s Company Store where
you can buy some local produce. Then return to Tanunda
to wind up the tour at the Chateau Tanunda Winery.
Celebrate. You earned it.
You’ve ridden the 706km Red Ochre to Red wine
Tour.
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