Alice Springs transport

Bus transport to Alice Springs:

All the major coach lines call in to Alice Springs between Darwin and Adelaide, and there are buses like the Groovy Grape that do a great combination of a tour and transport between Adelaide and Alice Springs.

A rare event, rain in the desert and a bogged Groovy Grape bus between William Creek and Coober Pedy.
Groovy Grape does a great seven day run from Adelaide to Darwin.

Adventure Tours is an Australian company that can take you across the country in a fun and adventurous way to show you the real Australia. Of course it is quicker to fly to Alice Springs, but crossing Australia's outback by road is the only way to fully appreciate its amazing vastness.

7 Day Darwin to Alice Springs via Uluru - Departs from Darwin and travels via Ayers Rock (Uluru), , Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), Kings Canyon, Kakadu National Park, Katherine Gorge, Litchfield National Park, Mary River Wetlands, Jim Jim Falls and Tennent Creek and arrives in Alice Springs. More info and reservations....

Rent a camper van to get to Alice Springs

One way to get to Alice Springs is to pick up a campervan in Darwin or Adelaide and explore the centre of Australia at your leisure. Australia is the perfect country to travel with a camper van! Wide open roads, countless beautiful spots to pull over and camp, the freedom to go where and when you want, it is no wonder so many Aussies on retirement buy themselves a mobile home and spend years going around the country.
Nothing beats finding your own camping spot in the wild, having a cold beer admiring a wildly coloured outback sunset and a dinner cooked on the campfire under the magnificent starry skies.

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Train transport to Alice Springs

SInce 1929 it has been possible to travel from Adelaide to Alice Springs by train, but it took until 2003 for the link between Alice Springs and Darwin to be completed.
After more than a hundred years of talking about it the 1420 km. N.T. railway has finally been built and was completed in October 2003 at a cost of $ 1.3 billion. Workers had to battle the desert heat and at times worked under big lights in the night and slept in the day, and had to negotiate with Aborigines to avoid sacred sites. By November 2003 already five million dollars in bookings was made for the first passenger service planned to start around february 2004, the first freight train, measuring 1200 metres in length and carrying 4000 tonnes, left Adelaide on 15 january 2004 for the 43 hour and 2979 km. journey. Mainly a freight line, the railway is also expected to bring an extra 30,000 tourists to Darwin each year. Darwininans wanting to celebrate the arrival of the first train were shocked to hear that alcohol was banned at the arrival party (even for the 600 VIPs) , this was a major break with tradition for a city that for many years held the record of having the highest per capita consumption of beer in the world and has an annual beercan regatta with boats made of empty beercans. A crowd of 10 000 people welcomed the train on its arrival around lunchtime on Saturday 17 January. Northern Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin said the first journey along the 3000km railway was ``a dream for Australia come true'' , Prime Minister John Howard said; "this is a great moment is the history of Australia, this is a reminder of Australia at its best." Chris Corrigan, a man who has made his fortune in the transport industry said; they've spent $2 billion building a railway for five trains a week and a few cartons of beer and I expect the financial returns on that to be smaller than ticks' testicles. But for the first year of operations they carried more freight than had been anticipated. It certainly provides a great way for travellers to see the Northern Territory outback in comfort.
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