South Australia · Gateway hub
Adelaide and surrounds
A festival city ringed by parkland, within an hour of the Barossa, McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills.
- Fly intoADL — Adelaide
- Within reach8 iconic destinations
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.
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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.
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 · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kangaroo Island — Dualiti Photos from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0
- Barossa Valley — User:DXR · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flinders Ranges — Faj2323 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Eyre Peninsula — Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0
- McLaren Vale — No Swan So Fine · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Adelaide Hills — RegionVisitor90 · CC0
- Clare Valley — Marionlad · CC BY-SA 3.0