USA & Canada

Prepare for an overseas holiday that dreams are truly made of – your Club is heading to the vast continent of North America, where natural and cultural diversity know no bounds. Whether the trip takes you to the USA, Canada or perhaps even both on the ultimate group itinerary, a memorable experience awaits lucky members with an eye for adventure.

USA

Cruise amazing Alaska

Another world awaits your Club on a cruise through amazing Alaska – home to truly epic scenery including icy glaciers and mountain peaks. Fancy spotting Arctic and aquatic wildlife such as humpback whales, bears, moose, wolves, sea otters, and bald eagles soaring through the sky? What about enjoying the spectacular sight of a calving glacier?

Other highlights might include exploring the urban wilderness and historic downtown of Anchorage, admiring the impressive Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, marvelling at snow-capped Mount Denali (North America’s highest peak), boarding the famous Alaskan Railroad, venturing into Kenai Fjords National Park, and spending time at year-round tourism destination, Fairbanks, known as the ‘Golden Heart City’, where the sun never seems to set on extraordinarily long summer days. Plus, be sure to journey to a recreated Athabascan village and learn about the lives of the hunting and gathering people who made their homes along the region’s rivers.

Culture and history buffs will also love the Valdez Museum, where visitors can delve into the rich heritage of this port city and remarkable surrounding areas including the Copper River Basin and Prince William Sound. And beyond all this, Alaska provides a rare opportunity to see the stunning Northern Lights.

Visit Southwest national parks

A journey deep into the American Southwest is one your Club will not soon forget. Making your way through one or more states including Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Southern Colorado, discover the unique landscapes and diverse wildlife of this region’s must-see national parks.

Your itinerary will likely include Grand Canyon National Park – renowned for incredible sunrise and sunset vistas from its numerous overlooks. You’ll also find deep canyons, massive red sandstone cliffs and emerald pools running through Utah’s Zion National Park. In Bryce Canyon National Park, sitting at an elevation of 8,000 feet, members can walk along the rim to absorb the multicoloured sandstone pinnacles and spires (hoodoos) rising impressively from nature’s amphitheatre. Meanwhile, the aptly named Arches National Park is home to over 2,000

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1. Grand Canyon National Park is a prime example of a destination that’s even more impressive in person than it is in pictures – and it looks pretty darn amazing in pictures

2. The mountains of Alaska contain some of the most stunning scenery you’ll see in your lifetime

3. Visit living history museum Colonial Williamsburg for a taste of life at the dawn of the USA

4. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas

5. Unlock the rugged beauty of Alaska with a journey along the 760km Alaskan Railroad

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natural stone arches – the highest concentration anywhere in the world. The most famous of these, Delicate Arch, is a definite highlight, but a number of arches will get your cameras clicking too.

Nearby Canyonlands National Park, where the Green River and the Colorado River come together, is best known as the place Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hid from the law in the late 1800s. Last but by no means least, visit iconic Monument Valley, home to the Navajo Indians and the setting for many of the best western films ever made.

Traverse the Historic Triangle

A tour of the ‘Historic Triangle’ will transport members back to early America. Walk in the steps of the Founding Fathers of the United States as you visit three colonial communities on the Virginia Peninsula – Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg and Yorktown. Along the way, discover a number of important historic sites, trade shops and museums.

Start in Jamestown, where the first English settlers landed in 1607. Here you’ll find the remains of the 18th-century Ambler Mansion, the centrepiece of a plantation estate. The homestead is renowned for its Georgian-style façade. The nearby living history museum of Jamestown Settlement recreates an early 17th-century fort along with three ships and a Powhatan Indian village. The city’s heart is the historic district of Colonial Williamsburg, which contains a wonderful living history museum depicting everyday colonial life. Finally, at Yorktown, your group will see the site of the siege and British defeat that effectively ended the American Revolutionary War in 1781. Yorktown sits on the banks of the York River, a major water highway for Navy ships on both sides throughout the battle. Highlights here include the American Revolution Museum, the recreated Continental Army Encampment and a driving tour of Yorktown Battlefield.

Alaska, USA

→ Anchorage → Trans-Alaska

Pipeline System → Mount Denali → Alaskan Railroad → Kenai Fjords

National Park → Fairbanks (aka

Golden Heart City) → Valdez Museum → Northern Lights

Southwest National Parks, USA

→ Grand Canyon

National Park, Arizona → Zion National Park,

Utah → Bryce Canyon

National Park, Utah → Arches National Park,

Utah → Canyonlands National

Park, Utah → Monument Valley,

Utah

Historic Triangle, USA

→ Ambler Mansion,

Jamestown → Jamestown

Settlement → Colonial Williamsburg → American Revolution

Museum, Yorktown → Continental Army

Encampent, Yorktown → Yorktown Battlefield

AT A GLANCE

CANADA

Spend some time in Toronto

The cosmopolitan city of Toronto is a dynamic destination as well as a gateway to the best of Eastern Canada. Recognised at first glance for its plethora of soaring skyscrapers – most notably the free-standing CN Tower that stretches high above the rest of the cityscape – Toronto is also much more than its instantly striking contemporary architecture.

Club members will appreciate the abundance of green urban spaces including Queen’s Park and 400-acre High Park. You’ll want to visit the Royal Ontario Museum, one of the largest and most popular cultural institutions in North America housing a superb collection of 13 million works.

For fresh produce and something delicious to eat, check out St. Lawrence Market – a hub of activity for over 200 years and in 2012 named the world’s best food market by National Geographic

And don’t miss Toronto Islands, a collection of small islands in adjacent Lake Ontario that you can reach on a short ferry ride from downtown Toronto. Here members can

1. Vast mountain wilderness Kluane National Park has 17 of Canada’s 20 highest peaks

2. Whitehorse’s Yukon Transportation Museum brings to life the history of transportation in one of the world’s most inhospitable regions

3. The Goodheram Building, located in downtown Toronto

4. The Royal Ontario Museum boasts an astonishing collection of over 13 million works

5. The Igloo Church is one of Northwest Territories town Inuvik’s most popular attractions

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make the most of pristine beaches, wide-open picnic spaces and even a petting farm full of friendly residents including a pygmy billy goat and a pot-bellied pig.

Take the highway to the Arctic

For those keen to take the road slightly less travelled, a journey through Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories will not disappoint. Start in wild, mountainous Yukon, where members can visit the ‘wilderness city’, Whitehorse – home of the fascinating Yukon Transportation Museum – before detouring west to marvel at the ice fields and forests of Kluane National Park and Reserve, boasting the Alsek River and Canada’s highest peak, Mount Logan.

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Travelling north, stop at the 19th-century gold rush destination of Dawson City for a taste of the wild west, before continuing this magnificent road trip along the Dempster Highway to the town of Inuvik on the freshwater Mackenzie River and Delta, the largest of its kind in Canada. Inuvik (meaning ‘place of people’) offers urban comforts within an Arctic setting that feels nothing like home. Your view to the majestic Richardson Mountains is one to savour.

More intrepid travellers might make it all way to Tuktoyaktuk – once accessible only by boat, plane or a winter ice road, but now able to be reached throughout the year via Canada’s first highway to the Arctic, the Inuvik-toTuktoyaktuk Highway. ■

AT A GLANCE

Toronto, Canada

→ CN Tower → Queen’s Park → High Park → Royal Ontario Museum → St. Lawrence Market → Toronto Islands

Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada

→ Whitehorse, Yukon → Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon → Dawson City, Yukon → Inuvik, Northwest

Territories → Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest

Territories

DIRECTORY (AUSTRALIA ONLY)

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Accommodation

Carrington Hotel, Katoomba .........................40 Hara House, Bright ........................................71 Metropole Guest House, Katoomba ...............40 Tarraleah Lodge ...........................................102 Wilpena Pound Resort ...................................96

Art & Culture

Art and Wine Co ...........................................48 Art Gallery of Western Australia ...................82 Art Masterclass Braddon ..............................108 Art Street Katoomba ......................................40 Blue Mountains City Art Gallery ..................40 Blue Room Theatre .........................................82 Bright Art Gallery and Cultural Centre .........71 Byron Bay Gallery ..........................................48 Cummins Theatre ...........................................83 Federation Square ...........................................60 Fleurieu Art Trails ..........................................91 Gallery One88 Fine Arts ................................40 Jilamara Arts .................................................112 Kimba Silo Art Trail .......................................94 The King’s Castle Parkes.................................54 Living Desert & Sculpture Symposium .........54 Lost Bear Gallery ...........................................40 Maryborough Mural Trail ..............................76 Munupi Arts & Crafts .................................112 Museum and Art Gallery of the NT ............112 National Gallery of Victoria ...........................58 Nature’s Powerhouse .......................................77 Ninbella Gallery .............................................48 Nob Creek Pottery .........................................76 North East Victoria Silo Art Trail ..................71 QUT Art Museum .........................................74 Rex Livingston Art + Objects.........................40 RMIT Design Hub ........................................60 Tiwi by Design Tours ...................................112 Tiwi Design ..................................................112 Wimmera Mallee Silo Art Trail .....................64 Wiradjuri Amphitheatre & Bushtucker Garden..54 Yaburara Heritage Trail ..................................86

Cruises & Boats

Captain Cook Cruises ....................................38 Cronulla Ferries ..............................................40 SeaLink Rottnest Island .................................82 Sydney Tall Ships ...........................................38 Yellow Water Cruise .....................................112

Events

Aussie Peace Walk ........................................108 Byron Bay International Film Festival ............48 Chinchilla Melon Festival ..............................74 Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival ................66 Manjimup Cherry Harmony Festival .............84 Taste of Summer Festival .............................100

Food, Dining & Shopping

ABC Cheese Factory (Tilba Real Dairy) .......44 Adelaide Central Market ................................90 Beechworth Honey Shop ...............................70 Chocolate Factory Gosford ............................42 Daily Dough Co .............................................40 Dromedary Hotel ...........................................44 Eumun-Tea .....................................................44 Frank’s Ciderhouse & Cafe ..........................100 Historic Terrace Houses Kiama ......................44 Knappstein Wines ..........................................90 Mr Goaty Gelato ............................................42 Murray’s Brewery ...........................................42 National Wine Centre of Australia ................90 Pagan Cider Cellar Door ..............................100 Pepo Farms .....................................................71 Robe Town Brewery .......................................92 Sarina Sugar Shed ..........................................76 Scarborough Hotel .........................................44 Tilba Teapot Cafe ...........................................44 Toms Cap Vineyard ........................................68 Willie Smith’s Apple Shed ...........................100

History & Heritage

Amusu Theatre ...............................................52 Australian War Memorial .............................106 Beechworth Courthouse .................................70 Beechworth Telegraph Station .......................70 Berrima Courthouse .......................................46 Coal Creek Community Park and Museum ...68 Cockatoo Island .............................................38 Elizabeth Farm Rosehill .................................38 Flinders Street Station ....................................58 Forum Theatre ................................................58 Gledswood Homestead & Winery .................38 The Gothic Bank ............................................58 Kryal Castle ....................................................66 Lambie Town Walk Cooma ...........................46 Line of Lode Miner’s Memorial .....................54 Mary Ann Steam Train ..................................76 National Film and Sound Archive................106 NSW Parliament House ................................38 The Old Gaol Robe ........................................92 Old Government House .................................74 Old Treasury Building ....................................58 Overnewton Castle .........................................60 Parliament House Melbourne ........................58 Peak Hill Gold Mine Experience ...................52 Rathmore House ..........................................100 Rouse Hill Estate ...........................................38 Royal Exhibition Building ..............................58 St Joseph’s Cathedral Rockhampton ..............76 Singing Ship Monument ................................76 Snowy Hydro Discovery Centre .....................46 Sovereign Hill.................................................66 Spray Tunnel.................................................102 State Library of Victoria .................................58 The Stick Shed ...............................................64 Tree of Knowledge .........................................78 Vaucluse House ..............................................38 Walhalla Goldfields Railway ..........................68 West Coast Heritage Centre Zeehan ...........102

Museums

Australian Army Flying Museum...................74 Australian Opal Centre ..................................54 Burke Museum ...............................................70 Chinese Museum............................................60 Cooktown Museum ........................................77 Dalby Pioneer Park Museum .........................74 Darwin Aviation Museum ............................112 Eureka Centre ................................................66 Goondiwindi Customs House Museum .........75 HARS Aviation Museum ...............................44 Justice & Police Museum ...............................38 Killarney Heritage Centre ..............................75 Kyneton Museum ...........................................66 Merredin Military Museum ...........................83 Merredin Railway Museum ............................83 Murtoa Water Tower Museum .......................64 Museum of Sydney .........................................38 National Vietnam Veterans Museum .............68 Nhill Aviation Heritage Museum...................64 Pilot’s Cottage Museum .................................44 Sir Henry Parkes Memorial School of Arts ...48 WA Museum Boola Bardip ............................82 Wimmera-Mallee Pioneer Museum ..............64 Woods Farming & Heritage Museum ............64

Scenic / Landmarks

Adelaide Botanic Garden ...............................90 Admirals Arch ................................................91 Agnes Falls .....................................................68 Amigo’s Castle ................................................54 Anzac Hill Alice Springs ..............................114 Arkaroola ........................................................96 Australian National Botanic Garden ............108 Bald Hill Lookout ..........................................44 Bay of Fires...................................................103 Big Galah Kimba ............................................94 Big Orange Berri ............................................92 The Blowhole Hepburn Springs .....................66 Blue Lotus Water Garden ..............................69 Budj Bim Cultural Landscape ........................62 Campaspe River Walk ....................................66 Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse .............................84 Cape Otway Lighthouse.................................62 Capricorn Caves .............................................76 City Botanic Gardens Brisbane ......................74 Corrigan Suspension Bridge ...........................68 Crystal Castle and Shambhala Gardens .........48 Darwin Botanic Gardens ..............................112 Dryandra Woodland National Park ................82 El Questro ......................................................86 Eungella National Park ..................................77 Green Island ...................................................78 Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve .................66 Honeycomb Gorge .........................................85 Hunter Valley Gardens ...................................42 Hearson Cove .................................................86 Katherine (Nitmiluk) Gorge.........................113 Kepwari Wetland Trail ...................................84 Kiama Blowhole .............................................44 La Trobe Swing Bridge ..................................68 Lake Grace Lookout ......................................83 Lara Wetlands ................................................78 Leliyn (Edith Falls) ......................................113 Low Head Coastal Reserve ..........................102 Maria Island .................................................103 Mataranka Hot Springs ................................113 Meadowbank Dam .......................................100 Melbourne Skydeck ........................................60 Moreton Bay Marine Park..............................74 National Arboretum Canberra .....................108 Ngilgi Cave.....................................................84 Ningaloo Reef ................................................85 Nourlangie Rock ..........................................112 Obelisk Coastal Trail ......................................92 Organ Pipes National Park ............................60 Paronella Park .................................................77 Pildappa Rock ................................................94 Port Fairy Lighthouse ....................................62 Remarkable Rocks ..........................................91 Rhyll Inlet ......................................................68 Sea Cliff Bridge ..............................................44 Silverton Ghost Town ....................................54 Super Pit Lookout ..........................................84 Tarra-Bulga National Park .............................68 Toowoomba Japanese Garden ........................74 Turtle Lookout Bluff Point .............................76 Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk ................84 Ubirr .............................................................112 WA Botanic Garden .......................................82 Wave Rock .....................................................82 Wilpena Pound ..............................................96 Wreck Beach ..................................................62 Yorketown Salt Lake Trail ..............................94

Sport

Gunsynd Memorial Statue .............................75 SCG & Allianz Stadium Tours ......................40 Sir Donald Bradman Birthplace Museum ......50

Wildlife

Adelaide Zoo ..................................................90 Altina Wildlife Park .......................................50 Charleville Bilby Experience ..........................78 Free Range Emu Farm Toodyay .....................83 Fraser Coast Wildlife Sanctuary .....................76 Healesville Sanctuary......................................69 Hunter Valley Wildlife Park ...........................42 Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park .......................91 Koorana Crocodile Farm ................................76 Oakvale Wildlife Park ....................................42 Port Stephens Koala Sanctuary ......................42 Quentin Park Alpacas ....................................52 Seal Bay Conservation Park............................91 Symbio Wildlife Park .....................................44

Miscellaneous / Tours

Agricultural Tours Riverina ............................50 Balloon Joy Flights Canowindra ....................52 Bridestowe Lavender Estate .........................102 Coach Tours Tasmania .................................102 Hello Koalas Sculpture Trail ...........................48 Kalgoorlie-Boulder Audio Walking Tour .......84 Lightning Ridge Car Door Tours ...................54 Miles Franklin Tours Goulburn ......................46 Oakfield Ranch Camel Tours .........................42 Outback Ballooning .....................................114 Phillip Island Helicopters ...............................68 Pyndan Camel Tracks ...................................114 Roma Saleyards ..............................................78 Silver City Tours .............................................54 Vintage Rail Journeys .....................................52 Willie Creek Pearl Farm.................................86

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