Gunlom Falls, Kakadu National Park : Driving Nature' s Way: Start in Draiving in Darwin and wind through a wetland wilderness steeped in Aboriginal culture and pioneering history on the Nature's Way touring route. It takes you from World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park to Litchfield National Park and Nitmuluk National Park. Canoe down the Katherine River swim in waterfalls at Litchfield and see the world' s largest collection of Aboriginal rock art at Kakadu. Here you can hike to the top of Gunlom Falls made famous in the movie Crocodile Dundee as Echo Pool explore rock pools and cook a campfire meal at the base of Arnhem Land escarpment. For photographic wildlife and bird watching enthusiasts this is a dream drive all on a fully sealed road that suits a two wheel drive.
Yellow Water Billabong : With the spirit of adventure: Four wheel drive to Koolpin Gorge or the base of the Arnhem Land escarpment and camp overnight. Or join a four wheel drive tour to key locations such as Jim Jim Falls and Barramundi Gorge. Take in Kakadu's majesty and size on a scenic flight or catch a barramundi with an experienced aports fishing guide. Glide down East Alligator River on an Aboriginal culture cruise or paddle a canoe to majestic Twin Falls. Bushwalk through monsoonal forest past waterfalls and clear plunge pools.
In tune with the Seasons : You need to visit Kakadu more than once to appreciate its dramatically different seasons. The local Bininj people have classified six beginning with the thundering waterfalls and dazzling lightening of the Gudjewg monsoon season between January and March through to the hot dry weather of the Gurrung months in August and September.
See blossoming paperbarks next to billabongs filled with waterbirds in the Banggerreng season of April. Enjoy pleasant temperatures and clear skies in the Wurrgeng cold weather monts between June and August. Soak up this changing scenery on a sweeping flight over the landscape or up close on a bushwalk billabong or river cruise.
