10 nights · 26. July - 5. August 2027 · Darwin → Broome
Ten nights aboard Le Jacques Cartier from Darwin into the heart of the Kimberley and onwards to Broome. The 184-guest Ponant Explorer-class vessel deploys 16 Zodiacs to reach mangrove rivers, rock-art galleries and sandstone gorges barely served by any road. Helideck readiness allows scenic flights to the Mitchell Falls and Horizontal Falls. The Blue Eye underwater lounge reveals the reef in the late hours. Aboriginal rock art of the Wandjina and Gwion-Gwion traditions places the region in the scale of a 40,000-year-old culture. Premium all-inclusive throughout.
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Darwin is the gateway to the Northern Territory's outback and to Australia's wild Top End …
The King George River in the Kimberley is the setting for the spectacular King George Falls - twin waterfalls that plunge 80 metres into a narrow sandstone canyon in the wet season …
Vansittart Bay on the Kimberley coast is the site of historic Aboriginal rock art as well as a crashed US military aircraft from the Second World War (a DC-3 from 1942) - a unique excursion in the Australian outback sea.
Ashmore Reef is a coral reef in Australia's external territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands in the Indian Ocean …
Careening Bay on the Kimberley coast carries an inscription carved by Phillip Parker King in 1820 into a boab tree - one of the oldest European marks on Australia's northern coast …
Swift Bay on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia hosts some of the oldest rock paintings in the world - Wandjina spirit figures and Gwion Gwion figures of the Aboriginal people, whose age is estimated at up to 17,000 years.
The Hunter River in the Kimberley (Western Australia) is a mangrove river system with saltwater crocodiles and more than 200 bird species …
The Lacépède Islands off the Kimberley coast are one of the most important green sea turtle breeding grounds in the world (up to 18,000 females each year) …
Broome on the Kimberley coast is known for Cable Beach, a 22-kilometre white sand beach, and for the pearling industry that made the town wealthy at the end of the 19th century …
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