Amazing Australia Kangaroo Safari for Families

Kangaroo on the beach in Australia

What to expect on this itinerary

Blending city sites with beach time and wildlife enchantment, this 10-day Australia kangaroo safari has been expertly handcrafted for families. Spend three days in Melbourne with koalas and Aboriginal art, three days on a Kangaroo Island wilderness safari, and four days of discovering the best of urban and natural Sydney. Expect sublime family experiences with authentic Australia.

Countries Visited

Australia

Places Visited

Melbourne, Kangaroo Island, Sydney

Suggested Duration

10 Days

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Day 1

Melbourne – Along the Coast

You will touch down in Melbourne, and your private driver will greet you at the airport and transfer you to your beachside hotel in the south of the city. Here, there is space for your children to play and for you to escape from the bustle of inner-city life. Today will be at your leisure, and you may need a free day to overcome any jet lag and travel fatigue. Melbourne is a long way from home, so rest up and relax before your Australia kangaroo safari begins tomorrow.

What's Included:

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Accommodation
Day 2

Melbourne – Wild Koalas and Kangaroos

Day 3

Melbourne – Aboriginal Art Experience

Day 4

Kangaroo Island – Wildlife and Wilderness

Day 5

Kangaroo Island – Wildlife Safari on Land

Day 6

Kangaroo Island – Beautiful Marine Safari

Day 7

Sydney – Climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge

Day 8

Sydney – Encounters with Australia’s Marsupials

Day 9

Sydney – In the Blue Mountains

Day 10

Sydney – Departure

Trip Highlights

  • Get up-close and personal with rescued kangaroos and koalas during a day in a wildlife sanctuary near Sydney
  • Immerse your family in an untouched wilderness with a three-day wildlife safari on Kangaroo Island
  • Escape from your everyday schedule with beautiful beachfront accommodations in both Melbourne and Sydney
  • Admire wild kangaroo mobs as they hop past you in the Blue Mountains and on Kangaroo Island
  • Take your safari to another level with a day of marine encounters, including safe snorkeling and spotting seals from a boat
  • Climb the steel frame of Sydney Harbour Bridge with your family
  • Discover the world of Aboriginal art and paint your own narrative during a morning with an Aboriginal artist
  • Uncover wildlife complexities as you learn how to identify different kangaroo species and where to find koalas in the wild

Starting Price

$4,900 per person (excluding international flights)

Your Zicasso trip is fully customizable, and this sample itinerary is a starting place for your travel plans. Actual costs are dynamic, and your selection of accommodations and activities, your season of travel, and other such variables will bring this budget guideline up or down. Throughout your planning experience with your Zicasso specialist, your itinerary is designed around your budget. You can book your trip when you are satisfied with every detail. Planning your trip with a Zicasso travel specialist is a free service.

What's Included

The starting price is based on travel during the low season for a minimum of two travelers staying in shared 3-star accommodations. Please inquire for a custom trip quote based on your travel preferences and travel dates.

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Australia Travel Review: Kangaroo Island, Great Ocean Road, Great Barrier Reef, 3-Week Trip

Zicasso’s travel specialist was great to work with. She anticipated our needs and was quick to respond with information and to answer questions. She set up a great trip for us and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Australia. We had a couple of issues with the tours that were set up for us and they were quickly resolved, with great results.

On our visit to Kangaroo Island, the small-group tour subcontractor mishandled our connection on the island; their recovery was to send a personal guide to spend the day with us and also provide us with dinner! It ended up being one of our best tours. Many of our small groups were just my wife and myself, sometimes with one or two others.

We also had a very rainy and windy day the day we were supposed to go out to the Great Barrier Reef. It was a weekend and the travel specialist was on vacation. That said, the on-call person was amazing in rearranging one of our other small-group tours for that day and we were still able to go to the reef two days later.

All in all, I would highly recommend the travel specialist and her company. They were great up front and great during the trip.

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Australia Tour Review: Sydney, Cairns, Uluru, Melbourne, Blue Mountains, Great Barrier Reef, Daintree Rainforest, Kings Canyon, Phillip Island, Whale Watching, Bridge Climb, Snorkeling, Helicopter Ride, Penguin Parade, 2-Week Trip

Our family of five had an amazing two-week trip to Australia. We visited Sydney, Cairns, Uluru, and Melbourne, experiencing a great diversity of sights and activities. Zicasso's travel partner was great, working with us to create a custom itinerary. Our travel specialist was a great travel planner and the support was available throughout the trip whenever we needed it. Thank you for a wonderful experience!

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Australia Travel Review: Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Freycinet, Great Barrier Reef, The Ghan, Harbor Cruise, Helicopter Flight, 3 Weeks

Working with our travel specialist to plan our trip was a pleasure; she shared additional recommendations throughout the process to ensure we finalized an exceptional itinerary that exceeded our wish list. The trip ran flawlessly, even though we visited multiple cities and locations.

Honestly hard to narrow down our favorite location, as each city or activity offered something different. Sydney is certainly very special, as was our Ghan train experience. But if we were to identify one highlight, it was our stay in Freycinet, Tasmania. The resort is spectacular, our villa spacious with incredible views across the bay and the staff amazing; nothing is too much trouble. The food at the resort is exceptional, each course with choices of Tasmanian wine.

We enjoyed all our experiences and activities throughout our trip, although strong winds when we took our helicopter flight out to a cay on the Great Barrier Reef meant we were unable to snorkel.

In summary, very impressed with Australia. Everything is clean, no graffiti (in any city we visited!) and everyone was so helpful and friendly. If we had one aspect we'd change, it would be to have added an additional day in Melbourne; it's a beautiful city with much to explore. Can't speak more highly of the team or our incredible trip.

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Australia Vacation Review: Sydney, Blue Mountains, Daintree, Cape Tribulation, Uluru, Port Douglas, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney Opera House, Snorkeling, Private Guide, Wildlife, 2-Week Trip

We were pretty late in arranging this trip and Zicasso and our travel company did an exceptional job! We feel like we saw the best of Australia in our two-week trip. The private guides for our tours (Sydney, Blue Mountains, Daintree, Cape Tribulation, Zootastic) were wonderful, informative, engaging, and responsive to our requests and our nine-year-old's endless questions! We felt cared for and even a little spoiled. This certainly exceeded our expectations and was one of the best vacations ever!

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Australia Travel Review: Tasmania Wildlife, Mossman River, Yarra Valley Ballooning, Penguin March, 16 Nights

We had a fantastic trip! Zicasso's travel specialist helped us arrange a wonderful itinerary, and we have recommended it to just about everyone we know.

All of it was memorable, but the very distinguished highlights:

Tasmania: our favorite place.

A wildlife day with our guide. Platypuses and hand-feeding/petting kangaroos in the wild gave us a sense of wonder we haven't experienced since childhood.

Bonorong Sanctuary night feeding: incredible educational experience, and so delightful to meet the animals!

Huge thank you to our travel specialist and travel company for a seamless, once-in-a-lifetime vacation!

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Australia Vacation Review: Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns, Port Douglas, Blue Mountains, Great Barrier Reef, Fitzroy, Whale Watching, Bridge Climb, Snorkeling, Wildlife, Local Cuisine, 15-Day Tour

This was our first trip to Australia. Zicasso’s travel agent took time to get to know our family and how we like to travel. She gathered our interests and preferences, and carefully curated an itinerary that showcased Sydney, Melbourne, and Cairns/Port Douglas, all within our budget.

This travel agent was very responsive before and during our trip, and monitored our activities to make sure we were happy. In fact, during our stay, one of our excursions (kayaking in Cairns) was canceled due to weather and she was right on top of it. She was able to book us immediately on another expedition (whale watching) of our choice. We appreciated her responsiveness.

Overall, our entire family was extremely happy with our travel agent's arrangements and had a memorable trip to Australia.

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