Where to go in Northern Territory: The Red Centre & Top End

Alice Springs

Amidst the rugged beauty of the Australian Red Centre, Alice Springs is a vibrant outback town which serves as the gateway to stunning landscapes, rich Aboriginal heritage and a warm, welcoming atmosphere.

Kings Canyon

Deep in the heart of the Northern Territory, Kings Canyon offers a breathtaking window into the rugged and awe-inspiring Australian Outback. With towering sandstone cliffs, lush palm-filled gorges and ancient Aboriginal rock art, it is a destination that truly captures the essence of the Red Centre.

Arnhem Land

Of staggering size – 91,000 square kilometres – and filled with varied landscapes, Aboriginal-owned Arnhem Land is well worth spending some time in. In the middle of Australia’s northern coast, its boundaries are beautiful ones: Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Katherine & Nitmiluk Gorge

Often described as the place where ‘the Outback meets the tropics’, Katherine and the Nitmiluk Gorge area is home to diverse landscapes and unique ecosystems that set the scene for adventure activities like fishing and four-wheel driving, canoeing and camping, bushwalking and bird watching.

Kakadu National Park

Kakadu National Park is acknowledged as Australia's most diverse and stunning landscape and offers real outback adventure travel. Kakadu lies roughly 170km south-east of Darwin in the Northern Territory.

Darwin

Australia's northernmost state capital, Darwin, is well known as the gateway to the Top End's national parks, but there's plenty to do in the city itself, and even more in its immediate surroundings.

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Aside from that iconic monolith, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park offers a vast window into the Outback. It's majestic, silent and splendidly isolated, filled with stunning vistas and animated by a unique culture. Discover how the Aboriginals carved out a way of life full of art and myth.