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Adelaide and surrounds
Everything on this map is a day trip or a short hop from Adelaide — the way Tourism Australia itself organises the country, around a gateway city and the destinations it opens up.
Day trips & destinations from here
The iconic destinations Tourism Australia groups under “Adelaide and surrounds”.
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Kangaroo Island A third of it national park — sea lions on the beach, koalas in the trees and Remarkable Rocks on the cliff. -
Barossa Valley Some of the oldest Shiraz vines on Earth, an hour from Adelaide. -
Flinders Ranges Wilpena Pound — a natural amphitheatre in 800-million-year-old ranges, on Adnyamathanha Country. -
Eyre Peninsula Oysters straight off the rack, sea lions to swim with and great whites to cage-dive. -
McLaren Vale Grenache and Shiraz where the vines run down to the Gulf St Vincent beaches. -
Adelaide Hills Cool-climate cellar doors, Hahndorf's German heritage and Cleland's koalas, 20 minutes from the city. - Fleurieu Peninsula Victor Harbor whales, Granite Island and the ferry jump-off for Kangaroo Island.
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Clare Valley Australia's Riesling heartland, best seen from the Riesling Trail on a bike.
Before you go
Entry rules, safety and health for Australia: the UK government's FCDO travel advice for Australia (the definitive source), summarised with visas, currency and plugs on our Australia guide.
Full guide for Adelaide is being written. The map and destination list above are live — see the South Australia guide for the wider picture.
Photography
Images on this page are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and are photographs of the places named. Author, licence and source for each:
- Adelaide — Lasse B. from Deutschland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · source
- Kangaroo Island — Dualiti Photos from Brisbane, Australia / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · source
- Barossa Valley — User:DXR / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Flinders Ranges — Faj2323 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Eyre Peninsula — Murray Foubister / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) · source
- McLaren Vale — No Swan So Fine / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Adelaide Hills — RegionVisitor90 / Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · source
- Clare Valley — Marionlad / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · source