Alice Springs Airport to Alice Springs City Half-Day Tour

Alice Springs Airport to Alice Springs City Half-Day Tour is an excellent opportunity to explore Alice Springs city & the East MacDonnell ranges countryside, including Royal Flying Doctor Service Alice Springs Tour Facility, Alice Springs Telegraph Station, Anzac Hill, Emily Gap & Jessie Gap in East Macdonell ranges. 
We will pick you up from Alice Springs Airport, and at the end of the tour, we bring you back to Alice Springs Airport or your selected hotel in Alice Springs.

Meeting Point

Alice Springs Airport

Santa Teresa, Road, Alice Springs NT 0871, Australia

Passenger exit terminal

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours, 30 minutes

Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum

8 - 10 Stuart Tce, , Alice Springs, 0870, Northern Territory

Your first exciting place is Royal Flying Doctor Service Alice Springs Tour Facility. See, experience and learn through the wonder of technology the heroic tales of the birth and growth of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Learn about the history and the activities of the RFDS’s pilots, engineers, doctors and nurses, and the experiences of the patients that are carried and cared for each day. Learn the importance of the RFDS to outback Australians and the medical care required to service isolated regions.

40 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Alice Springs School of the Air Experience

80 Head Street, Braitling, Alice Springs, 0870, Northern Territory

Your next visit will be to Alice Springs School of the Air Experience. The Visitor Centre brings to life an integral and unique facet of the children’s lives in the Australian Outback. It offers travellers the opportunity to learn about the history of 'The World's Largest Classroom', reveal stories about the school from afar and life on the land, and share in Outback students' dreams, achievements, and journeys.
The experience includes a film, a guided presentation about our unique history, and the ground-breaking techniques that make it possible for our remote students to participate in school classes despite time, distance, and isolation challenges. You might even be able to observe a teacher conducting a live lesson in one of our five broadcasting studios right before you! However, sometimes, live lessons will be replaced with pre-recorded lessons.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Anzac Hill

Anzac Hill Road, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Our next visit of the day is at Anzac Hill, where you will be able to take in panoramic views over the town of Alice Springs and the surrounding MacDonnell ranges. You may be able to capture one photo to cover the entire town. You will enjoy the sunset. Anzac Hill is a memorial dedicated to those who served in Australia’s defense forces during all international wars.

20 minutes

The Emily and Jessie Gaps Nature Park

Ross Highway, 10 kilometres east of Alice Springs., East MacDonnell Ranges, Hale, Alice Springs, 0872, Northern Territory

Your next stop will be to Pack a picnic, watch the local wildlife, or follow a short walking track into Emily and Jessie's gaps.
The two small gaps in the Heavitree Range are important spiritual sites to the Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal people. Many places in the surrounding landscape are associated with the same caterpillar Dreamtime story and form a 'Dreaming Trail'.

Emily Gap is a significant sacred site where the caterpillar beings of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) originated. These caterpillars formed Emily Gap, and many of the topographic features around Alice Springs radiated out to the edge of the Simpson Desert. You can see a large rock painting at Emily Gap depicting the caterpillar dreaming.

At Jesse's Gap, you will also see aboriginal rock arts, which are unique to central Australia.
 

50 minutes