Watarrka National Park

• Our longest single bushwalk in central Australia If we use a helicopter food drop, you won't need to carry two weeks food.
• The only tour that takes you far beyond Kings Canyon deep into the Watarrka wilderness.
• An incredible variety of landscapes Pools, gorges, spectacular clifftop views, desert sands and more.
• Too long? It should be possible to do either week on its own.
• Red or Green If you want to see how the region can vary, have a look at our Red Centre or Green page which compares wet and dry years.

Our trek begins as we follow the tourist track up to the top of the range. This is the steepest climb of the entire trip. Once on top we follow the trail until it crosses Kings Creek. We leave the trail here. From this point onwards, we may see no one else until the walk is over.

We hike north along Kings Creek into an area of rugged rock formations and hidden water holes, stopping to spend two or even three nights in one spot as we explore the rock maze around us.

From Kings Creek, we trek east to another deep canyon and another magnificent campsite. From here we continue hiking east to near the eastern boundary of the park. On most of our trips, this is where we have a water and food drop brought in by helicopter.

We then trek south to a large permanent waterhole in yet another deep gorge. The cliffs ahead of us give us no choice and we turn west back toward where we began.

We follow the southern edge of the range west, stopping at a number of permanent pools along the way. We may even walk out into the dunes on the top of the range and spend a night in a very different environment. The occasional art site tells us that this has been a special place for thousands of years.

As we near the end we meet the Giles Track which we follow back to where we began.