African safaris may be off the cards due to the pandemic but remote towns and harsh desert landscapes are awaiting a new aerial tour to the Australian outback.
The Classic Safari Company is a luxury travel company who usually conducts international safari holidays to Africa, South America and exotic experiences on the Indian subcontinent, however COVID-19 has changed the way this aerial service does business, creating the ultimate outback pub crawl experience.
The Classic Safari Company aerial tour will take a maximum group of 10 more than 4000 kilometres in a private chartered Cessna Caravan to eight of most remote pubs in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
Stops include Tibooburra, NSW, and the Family Hotel with its Clifton Pugh mural in the bar from the 1960s and the William Creek Hotel with a front bar adorned with memorabilia left by travellers from around the world
There's a lunch stop at the licensed Pink Roadhouse in Oodnadatta, but the ultimate arrival is reserved for the Birdsville Hotel where the plane will taxi to the front door.
The tour takes in the Simpson Desert and its largest sand dune Big Red, Lake Eyre, modern geoglyph Marree Man with a height of more than four kilometres, the Flinders Ranges and Broken Hill's interactive Flying Doctors Museum.
The five-day trip features a stay at the heritage listed two-storey sandstone Marree Hotel at the junction of the Birdsville and Oodnadatta Tracks.
Departing Sydney on October 8, the tour costs from $7750 a person and includes all accommodation and meals. The beer is on the traveller. Check out more.