OUR LITCHFIELD TOURS
At Lostinaustralia.com.au we offer visitors a great selection of Litchfield tours that have been hand chosen due to their good performance. All Litchfield tours offer travellers a great time and a unique experience to Litchfield National Park.
All Litchfield tours offer travellers a wide range of activities such as hiking, swimming, 4wding and exploring. The tours also put a large enthasis on teaching visitors about our culture, wildlife and natural environment. For travellers who are looking for a an experience and to learn about our great country, these Litchfield tours will take you on an adventure you wont forget! If you enjoy prestine clear water, cascading water falls and rockholes nestled amongst tropical monsoonal rainforests, this is the place to venture. An easy two hour drive and accessable all year round by a two wheel drive vehicle makes it a perfect 1-2 day tour destination.
All Litchfield tours mentioned in this website are locally operated companies who provide small group adventures consisting 9 - 16 people. They are Australian owned and have great reputations.
LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK INFO
Most people consider Litchfield to be the little brother of Kakadu National Park, a jewel in the crown of the Northern Territory. A sandstone plateau, refered to as the Tabletop Range, is approximatly 1,500 sq km in size and attracts 250,000 visitors per year.
Named after Frederick Henry Lichfield, explorer and member of the Finniss Expedition that travelled from South Australia in 1864 ,was the first European to have visited this area. The declaration of Litchfield as a Park occured in 1985 after the negotiation and surrender of pastoral leases to the Conservation Land Corporation.
Litchfield National Park lies approximately 130km's southwest of Darwin near the town of Batchelor, widley known as the gateway to Litchfield National park, has it's own unique attractions such as the Coomalie Cultural Centre you should not miss.
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This magnificent park is something to write home about. Four waterfalls drop over a wide sandstone plateau, spilling into idyllic waterholes surrounded by patches of rainforest. People come for the sensational swimming, bushwalking and camping – and, boy, do they come on weekends.
The two routes to Litchfield (115km south of Darwin) from the Stuart Hwy join up and loop through the park. The southern access road via Batchelor is all sealed, while the northern access route, off the Cox Peninsula Rd, is partly unsealed and may be impassable in the Wet.
About 17km after entering the park from Batchelor you come to what look like tombstones. Only the very tip of these remarkable magnetic termite mounds is used to bury the dead; at the bottom are the king and queen, with workers in between. Metal objects won’t fly from your person to these world-exclusive magnetic mounds; rather, less dramatically, they’re perfectly aligned north to south, designed to regulate the temperature, so the termites’ thin skins can cope with the extreme seasonal changes.