Northern Territory - time to travel
Submitted: Sunday, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:04
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Member - Kiwibound eventually
We are currently in
Cairns and leaving for
Cape York around the first week in August. We had originally planned then to travel across the
Savannah Way towards
Darwin and visiting
Kakadu and Lichfield before heading further west. This should be the months of September and October. The alternative is that we proceed to Mt ISA and head south via
Alice Springs before heading west and then north. We are on a full trip around Australia and if we take the second alternative we would be arriving in the Northern Territory around March/April. Can we please have opinions on which would be the better alternative? Many thanks.
Reply By: Sandman - Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011 at 20:48
Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011 at 20:48
March is still a very hot time in
Alice Springs, April/May would be much better. Right now the days in Alice are around 25 (from a low of 1 overnight and even minus). We're heading up the Tanami to
Broome in mid Sept, from everything I hear from the locals it will already be warming up and i think we will get back just in time (1st week in Oct) before it gets uber toasty :-)
2 years ago Carol and I took the swag up to
Kakadu and
Litchfield from Alice in January...boy do we now know what its like during the wet season in a swag :-) What an experience :-)
Pete in Alice
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Follow Up By: Member - Kiwibound eventually - Friday, Jul 29, 2011 at 17:10
Friday, Jul 29, 2011 at 17:10
Thanks Pete for your advice. It doesn't seem that either Sept/Oct and March/April is really the right time for either area. It is hard to get it right! We may have to review our timing completely.
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