Kakadu National Park
- Hours:Open daily
- Admission:Park fee: AU$25 per person
Good Views / Viewpoint, Must-Do Experience, Nature & Wildlife, Off-the-Beaten Path, Walking/Hiking, National Park
3:16 PM Saturday, May 26
Sunny. Pleasantly warm.
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Kakadu National Park has a feeling and a beauty unlike anywhere else on earth. With its sandstone escarpments looming up from the plain, its secret waterholes and lily-strewn waterways, its teeming birdlife and ancient rock art, it's a place that will get a hold on something old in your soul.
It's Australia's largest national park, clocking in at a mindboggling 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres). In that vast space shelters a staggering multiplicity of fauna, including dingos, wallabies and saltwater crocodiles. There's plants and animals here that are found nowhere else in the world, and a number of endangered species.
Make sure to take a cruise along one of the numerous park rivers - cruising along the Alligator River will allow to discover amazing birds and see crocs up close safely. Yellow Water near Cooina is a good starting point for sunrise cruises, usually the best time of the day for wildlife viewing.
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Excellent experience the tour guide was very knowledgeable and was very informative, Well done Neville.
The Arnhem Land Flight was worthy, unbelievable, great experience.
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What a fantastic adventure! A real Ozzy experience and far exceeded my dreams. Had thought when booking that it was a bit expensive but well worth the money. Crocodilesat close range, amazing wildlife from blue wing kookabuuras to white bellied sea eagles and whistling kites. Highlight was the visit to Arnhem Land and the Oenpelli settlement. A day of understanding their culture and viewing rock art. Guides were brilliant and hugely knowledgeable.
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We thoroughly enjoyed this tour and commentaries. The flight over Arnhamland was an added perspective of this rich and fascinating land
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Most tourists visit the park in late July, during the dry season, when most of the park is accessible and animals gather in large numbers around shrinking waterholes. In the wet season, which lasts from October to March, waterfalls and rivers swell and it becomes difficult to move around. However, if you're here at this time of year and have some cash to splash, try taking a light plane ride over the torrential waterfalls.
You can take in Kakadu on a tour or, if you have your own car, do it independently. Be sure to stop into the Bowali Vistor Centre on the way in to plan your trip with the experts. This can be a dangerous environment for the unprepared.
The park is run jointly by the Australian government and the traditional owners of the land - the Bininj in the north and the Mungguy in the south. Visitor centers within the park give an insight into traditional culture, which has been going in Kakadu for at least 50,000 years.
