The Bush and the Outback
The bush and Outback are Australia’s heartland – a vast, raw, brooding landscape with a world of wonders that spells adventure to the traveller.
The bush and the Outback set Australia apart from every other corner of the planet, and, in New South Wales, you’ll find an abundance of experiences in the rugged Outback.
Whether it’s bending an elbow with the locals in a country pub, fossicking for opals on a mullock heap, yelling your lungs out at a country race meeting or watching the billy boil - this is the stuff that fond memories are made of.
Most of New South Wales lies west off the Great Dividing Range and, if you want a taste of the real Australia, there is nowhere else quite like it.
Outback towns
White Cliffs
This is an extraordinary opal town where most of the inhabitants live...
Silverton
The road from Broken Hill to Silverton passes through pure Outback country...
Bourke
The expression ‘Back of Bourke’ is written in Australian folklore as being where...
Tilpa Pub
For a true Outback experience you have to visit the Tilpa Pub on the Darling River...
Lightning Ridge
A place of larger-than-life characters, thrives on the largest deposit...
Bush & Outback experiences
Broken Hill
At first sight, Broken Hill seems conservative, even sedate...
Louth Races
Jackaroo / Jillaroo
Brush up on your whip cracking skills and cattle mustering at a five-day...
National parks
Mutawintji National Park
For thousands of years Mutawintji was one of the most important spiritual meeting...
Mungo National Park
Mungo National Park is a part of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area...