Hobart Courtyard
Hotel
Days 1, 2, 3, 8
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Nine days round the island, with the boulder field if the wind allows. Nine days with the parks pass, two nights at Cradle and the guided night walk included.
Nine days round an island the size of Ireland with about a fortieth of the people.
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| Salamanca Place |
| Battery Point |
| kunanyi / Mount Wellington |
MONA is three storeys underground in a sandstone cliff and was funded by a professional gambler. It is the reason a lot of people come to Tasmania at all.
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| MONA |
| kunanyi |
| Derwent estuary |
Around 12,500 convicts were sent here between 1830 and 1877. The Separate Prison experimented with total isolation and silence, and it broke people.
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| Port Arthur |
| Separate Prison |
| Isle of the Dead |
The lookout is a twenty-minute climb and most people stop there. Going down to the sand and round the isthmus takes four hours and loses the crowd immediately.
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| Wineglass Bay |
| Hazards |
| Freycinet peninsula |
Cradle sits in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, which covers about a fifth of the state.
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| Launceston |
| Central highlands |
| Cradle Mountain |
The last section is scrambling across a boulder field with no path, and it is closed in high wind. Dove Lake alone is a fine day if it is.
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| Dove Lake |
| Marions Lookout |
| Cradle summit |
| Boulder field |
Wombats graze the buttongrass in the afternoon and are easy to see. Devils are nocturnal, shy, and fighting a transmissible facial cancer that has cut the wild population enormously.
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| Wombats |
| Tasmanian devil |
| Myrtle beech rainforest |
The swamp gums here are the tallest flowering plants on earth — some over eighty metres.
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| Russell Falls |
| Swamp gums |
| Tall Trees Walk |
Hobart flies to Melbourne and Sydney; there is no international service.
All accommodations are subject to change
Hotel
Days 1, 2, 3, 8
Hotel
Day 4
Hotel
Days 5–7
8 breakfasts and 5 dinners across 9 days, at camp. It opens with dinner on day 1 and closes with breakfast on day 9.
13 meal services named in the itinerary. Vegetarian and vegan covered; Jain, gluten-free and allergies on notice at booking
Did this over 9 days and it was the best walking I've done in years. Hotels were clean and central, which saved a lot of time. Simple food, well made, and enough of it. Good value for what's included.
Second trek with this operator and they've kept the standard up. Would book with them again.
Second trek with this operator and they've kept the standard up. Accommodation was a notch better than the price suggested. Simple food, well made, and enough of it. Would send friends their way.
Second trek with this operator and they've kept the standard up. Recommended.
Did this over 9 days and it was the best walking I've done in years. Good value for what's included.
Well organised from the pickup onwards. The daily distances were honest about what they'd be.
The route is beautiful and the pacing was sensible — nobody was rushed on the climb. Solid operator.
Well organised from the pickup onwards. The daily distances were honest about what they'd be. Good value for what's included.
Thank you for travelling with us — glad the route worked out.
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