The Rock Run - 17 days, 18 nights

Discover Australia's Red Centre on this 6,100 kilometre (3,800 mile) 17 day Signature Escape to the iconic Uluru and Kata Tjuta World Heritage Listed National Park.
ex Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Priced from AUD$11,100 per person twin share
Tour Dates: Thu 5 to Mon 23 Jun 2025
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Welcome to Sydney!
Sydney is the not only the oldest but is the largest city in Australia and is one of the world's most vibrant and famous cities. It's famed for the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.Check into your accommodation in the heart of the city and we will meet you at the Welcome Dinner. This will give you an opportunity to get to know your fellow riders on the tour. We will also go over the tour details including a review of the itinerary and safe group riding practices.
Day 1 – Sydney to Batemans Bay – 304 km (189 miles)
Today is our first ride day. We will meet you in the lobby of the hotel and load your luggage in the support vehicle. You will then board the shuttle to the bike hire office. Once everyone has completed their paperwork it's time to hit the road.Our ride starts along Grand Pacific Drive on the spectacular south coast of New South Wales, including the Sea Cliff Bridge where we ride out over the ocean as we hug the side of the escarpment that lines the coast. Our lunch stop today continues to provide us with the magnificent views out over the Pacific Ocean.
Day 2 – Batemans Bay to Leeton – 478 km (297 miles)
Next it's a ride up over the Great Dividing Range and into the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales. There's a great mix of twisties through the mountains and big sweeping bends through the lush countryside today along with rest breaks and lunch in some smaller country towns.
Day 3 – Leeton to Mildura – 463 km (288 miles)
The countryside soon opens up to the inland plains and we will be riding across the Hay Plains, counted in the top three flattest places on earth. The road may seem long and straight but because of this there is so much to see. Many people have said not to look around at ground level but to look up and around. Because the land is so flat the sky feels so much larger than anywhere else in the world and is a truly breathtaking sight to see! This is known as “Big Sky” country and is also part of the “Long Paddock”, a historic stock route that runs through outback New South Wales.
Day 4 – Mildura to Port Augusta – 535 km (333 miles)
As we continue riding toward the west and cross the border into South Australia you will get to truly experience just how vast Australia is. After all, we have only travelled across one state, but we are already one third of the way across the continent.Once in South Australia we will start riding north, what we call "up the centre".A word of warning, the trip up the centre and back down the centre has some very long days in the saddle (the longest day is 610 kilometres/379 miles in 1 day) because there is just nowhere to stop. Sure, there are roadhouses and homesteads but in some cases you won't see anything but land between them for over 2 hours.
Day 5 – Port Augusta to Coober Pedy – 555 km (345 miles)
Our next 2 nights will be spent in the opal mining town of Coober Pedy where you have the option to stay in an underground hotel room. Being in the desert means hot summer days and cold winter nights so most of the towns people have built their homes underground where they are able to achieve a consistent temperature all year round. For the next two nights we will sleep in an underground hotel.
Day 6 – Coober Pedy – Sightseeing Day
Today is a sightseeing day and we will spend some time off the bikes while enjoying a tour through the town before being taken to several sites outside of the town. A visit to Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park provides an opportunity to see the spectacular flat-topped mesas, the coloured hills, and the edge of the Moon Plain (the movie Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel, was filmed here). Another stop on the tour is the Dingo Fence, stretching more than 5,600 kilometres (3,480 miles) through 3 states of Australia it is one of the longest structures in the world and is longer than the Great Wall of China. It was built in the 1930’s to keep dingos out of the more fertile sheep grazing areas of southeastern Australia, as the dingo poses a big threat to livestock and is Australia’s largest territorial predator.
Day 7 – Coober Pedy to Erldunda – 489 km (304 miles)
We continue riding up the centre and cross the border into the Northern Territory. This is some of the remotest riding that Australia has to offer. There is nothing but red dirt for miles, occasionally broken up by small native desert grasses, and it can be hours before you reach the next roadhouse for a welcome stop. It is definitely one of those things that you have to experience for yourself to fully understand and appreciate what Australia’s remote outback is all about!
Day 8 – Erldunda to Uluru – 296 km (184 miles)
Today we arrive at Uluru (Ayers Rock)! We will ride the 15 kilometre loop around Uluru before we check into our hotel for the night. There is also a lookout that is only a 10 minute walk from the resort that offers sweeping views of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park including Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas). After sunset it is also a good place to see the many stars that make up the Milky Way.
Day 9 – Uluru – Sightseeing Day
Today is sightseeing day, you will start at Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) before coming back to Uluru for some guided walks and visit the Aboriginal Cultural Centre. You will finish the day with a sunset BBQ at the foot of Uluru, as the sunlight dips below the horizon the rock formations appear to change colour from the rust brown to a brilliant red/orange so make sure you are ready to snap those insta-worthy pics! There is also an option to add on a star gazing tour (not included in base price) in one of the best stargazing spots in the world, Uluru. The lower humidity and almost no artificial light makes the Australian Outback one of the best places to view the stars. Sit under a blanket of stars and wonder at our view of the Milky Way where you can see 100 times the number of stars that can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere.
Day 10 – Uluru to Marla – 501 km (311 miles)
As we depart the resort at Uluru we turn around and go back the way we came, this time "down the centre", there's no other way to go without taking a 3,850 kilometre (2,390 miles) detour.
Day 11 – Marla to Woomera – 610 km (379 miles)
We will cross the border back into South Australia. An interesting stop along the way through the outback desert area of South Australia is the town of Woomera, within an area designated as the "Woomera Prohibited Area". The general public only have access to a small part of this area, the rest is a Royal Australian Air Force aerospace and systems testing range.
Day 12 – Woomera to Peterborough – 313 km (195 miles)
Continuing through South Australia we will stop at an exhibition that will give you an insight into the history of the Australian Outback, including how it was formed and how Australians have been overcoming the difficulties that come with living in such remote areas.The rest of the day takes us through some small country towns and we cross over Goyder’s Line several times. Also known as “The Line of Rainfall” it was charted in the late 1860’s by George Goyder and became a line of demarcation between areas where drought prevailed and the portion of the country that received enough rainfall to establish farms and pastoral properties.
Day 13 – Peterborough to Broken Hill – 314 km (195 miles)
Three days and 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) after we leave Uluru (yes, Australia is THAT big!), we will turn left and start riding east towards New South Wales.As we ride east the Sydney to Perth railway line runs very close to the highway so we may see the Indian Pacific, the 878 metre (2,880 foot) long passenger train that regularly travels east/west across Australia.We arrive in Broken Hill where we will be stopping for 2 nights. There is so much to see and do here, including the awesome sculptures that we will go to see at sunset on the night we arrive, another Instagram photo opportunity!
Day 14 – Broken Hill – Sightseeing Day
There is lots to see & do in Broken Hill & the surrounding area, such as the Miners Memorial, the Big Chair, Silverton Hotel, Mad Max Museum & even a quick run over the border into South Australia for lunch. Broken Hill is also home to internationally renowned artist Pro Hart and we will visit his gallery. You may want to wander up to The Palace Hotel tonight, this hotel featured as a filming location in the 1994 Australian movie Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Day 15 – Broken Hill to Cobar – 456 km (283 miles)
Leaving Broken Hill and we will make our way across almost half of the state from west to east through some of the most remote country in the state. We will stop for morning tea in a small outback town that was once the third largest river port when boats used to travel the river systems for trading, but is now struggling to survive like most country towns. As we continue to ride some of the straightest roads in the state, stretched out for miles in front of us, we next stop at a Roadhouse which is the only place to get fuel along this section of road.
Day 16 – Cobar to Orange – 447 km (278 miles)
We will spend the final few days riding through the New South Wales outback before crossing the Western Plains where we will visit the Old Dubbo Gaol, a fascinating look at what began as a courthouse lock up in 1847 and grew to a fully functioning gaol which operated until 1966, and a museum dedicated to the famous Australian poet and journalist Banjo Patterson.
Day 17 – Orange to Sydney – 249 km (155 miles)
Our last day back into Sydney is full of spectacular sightseeing as we make our way to the UNESCO World-Heritage listed Blue Mountains National Park. Here you will ride the world's steepest passenger railway and get to take in the breath-taking sights of the Three Sisters rock formation, the spectacular sandstone cliffs that rise out from the Jamison Valley, and Mount Solitary, the only mountain that sits within the valley.Our final run down the mountain brings us back in to Sydney where we will drop the bikes off and we will shuttle you back to the hotel in Sydney. The last activity of the tour is the Farewell Dinner where we can re-live our trip and exchange details with the new friends we have just shared the road with for the last 17 days.
For more information about New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory please see the Australian Tourism website:Tourism Australia - New South Wales Tourism Australia - South Australia Tourism Australia - Northern Territory