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Full day The Painted Desert Tour in Outback South Australia

Saturday expeditions into South Australia's Painted Desert with the Outback Mail Man, covering 10 hours of remote terrain north of Coober Pedy. You'll cross the Moon Plains and pastoral stretches to reach the Arckaringa Hills, where layered geology—sculpted by ancient seas and millennia of weathering—displays striking reds, ochres, and earth tones. Walking tracks let you move through this untouched country while guides explain the landscape's formation. A picnic lunch breaks the day in the hills, followed by the return journey past the Breakaways' jagged formations.