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Australasia Walks & Tours

Australasia offers an exceptional range of active and cultural travel experiences, spanning vast continental landscapes, alpine regions and remote island cultures.

Exploring this diverse region through human-powered journeys allows for deeper connection with both nature and community, from wilderness trails to island-based adventures.

World Expeditions offers expertly guided adventures across Australasia, including walking, trekking, cycling, paddling and cultural journeys.

Our itineraries range from introductory adventures to more challenging expeditions, all designed to balance physical activity, immersion and thoughtful pacing.

With decades of experience operating throughout the region and pioneering adventure travel since 1975, World Expeditions delivers some of the world’s best adventures, supported by experienced guides, trusted local teams and a long-standing commitment to responsible travel.

The Ngaro Track, Whitsunday Islands  | Matt Horspool

Find your Australasia adventure

Cross rainforest rivers on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea | Ken Harris
4.4/5 (18 reviews)

Kokoda Track

Trip Grading
6 / 10

Moderate to Challenging

Papua New Guinea

11 days

from $3890 USD

Practicing skills during the Alpine Climbing Course in New Zealand
5.0/5 (1 review)

Alpine Climbing Course

Trip Grading
8 / 10

Entry Level Mountaineering or Exploratory Treks

Technical Grading

Basic
New Zealand

7 days

from $3490 USD

Sea kayaking through the tropical Yasawa Islands
5.0/5 (3 reviews)

Ultimate Yasawa Sea Kayak Expedition

Trip Grading
6 / 10

Moderate to Challenging

Fiji

9 days

from $4290 USD

Kayaking the turquoise waters of Palau
Updated
4.0/5 (1 review)

Palau Kayaking Expedition

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Palau

9 days

from $5090 USD

Paddle through Fiji’s Yasawa Islands, where turquoise waters and remote beaches become part of your daily journey
4.8/5 (24 reviews)

Yasawa Islands Sea Kayaking - Fiji

Trip Grading
5 / 10

Moderate

Fiji

7 days

from $3190 USD

Our Flinders Island Eco-Comfort Camp is in a secluded setting with beach access | Lachlan Gardiner
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Women, Wild & Wise: Tasmania’s Flinders Island with Suzan Muir

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Australia

6 days

from $3890 USD

The Ngaro Track, Whitsunday Islands | Matt Horspool
5.0/5 (11 reviews)

Ngaro Track Walk In Comfort

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Australia

3 days

from $1590 USD

The Ngaro Track, Whitsunday Islands | Matt Horspool
New Trip

Ngaro Track Full Pack Guided Hike

Trip Grading
5 / 10

Moderate

Australia

3 days

from $1290 USD

Stay at our Eco-Comfort Camps on the Larapinta Trail | Lachlan Gardiner
4.9/5 (1580 reviews)

Classic Larapinta Trek in Comfort

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Australia

6 days

from $3150 USD

Hiking the spectacular Flinders Island coastline | Lachlan Gardiner
4.7/5 (316 reviews)

Flinders Island Walking Adventure - In Comfort

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Australia

6 days

from $2970 USD

Admire the beauty of Girraween National Park
5.0/5 (1 review)

Girraween National Park Walk in Comfort

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Australia

5 days

from $2330 USD

Walking alongside creeks and through rainforest in the Border Ranges National Park | K. Holmes
New Trip

Gondwana Rainforest Walk in Comfort

Trip Grading
4 / 10

Introductory to Moderate

Australia

4 days

from $1830 USD

About Australasia

Our clean amenities are sustainably sourced and operated | Lachlan Gardiner
Multi-award Winning Eco-Comfort Camps

On the Larapinta Trail in Central Australia and on Flinders Island in Tasmania, both part of the Great Walks of Australia collection, you experience a refined level of wilderness comfort designed to enhance your time on the trail.

On the Larapinta, our exclusive semi permanent Eco-Comfort Camp forms part of our In Comfort range. Each day you return to hot showers, spacious twin share tents with standing height, raised stretcher beds and a generous communal shelter for dining and relaxing. Sit down toilets add further comfort in this remote desert landscape, supporting rest and recovery between walks.

On Flinders Island, accommodation is carefully positioned in spectacular coastal settings, combining immersion in nature with a high standard of comfort and low impact operations.

Every campsite is secluded on the Overland Track | Matt Horspool
Camping

Camping across Australian trips is fully supported and designed to suit the environment you are travelling through.

We use high quality two person tents selected for each terrain, traditional swags on classic outback safaris, and mozzie domes during the Tropical Top End dry season. Your crew manages camp setup and meals, allowing you to focus on the experience.

Many camps are located within National Parks, often featuring well maintained toilet facilities, raised timber platforms, rainwater tanks and composting toilets. This style of travel keeps you close to the landscape while maintaining a practical and comfortable base in remote settings.

These adventures feature in our Classic collection.

Enjoying the stunning Braemar Station on the Alps to Ocean Cycling trail. | Clare Toia-Bailey
Cabins and Stations

Across Australia and New Zealand, you may stay in characterful cabins, lodges and working stations that reflect the landscapes and heritage of each region.

Accommodation is typically in private or twin share rooms, often within restored homesteads, alpine lodges or purpose built guest cabins. In Australia, this may include remote bush properties or historic cattle stations, while in New Zealand, stays can be in rural lodges or high country stations surrounded by mountains, lakes or farmland.

Facilities are comfortable and practical, offering a relaxed base at the end of each day while keeping you connected to the spirit and scale of Australasia’s great outdoors.

Our luxury farm stay accommodation at Middlehurst Station
Farm Stays

In New Zealand, you may stay with local Kiwi families on working farms set in peaceful, remote locations.

These farm stays offer a genuine insight into rural life, where you can learn about the landscape, daily routines and traditions that shape the region. Accommodation is welcoming and comfortable, with a strong sense of personal hospitality.

Home cooked meals are a highlight, often prepared with fresh local ingredients and shared around the family table, adding warmth and authenticity to your adventure.

The Friendly Beaches Lodge | Graham Michael Freeman
Eco Lodges

On select tours in Tasmania and New Zealand, you stay in environmentally sensitive lodges or thoughtfully designed semi permanent structures set within natural surroundings.

These properties are built to work with the landscape, often powered by solar energy and supported by rainwater collection systems, extending comfort while maintaining a low environmental footprint. Accommodation is warm, well appointed and carefully integrated into its setting.

Meals highlight quality local produce and are often paired with regional wines, adding a distinctly local flavour to your stay in these wild and beautiful regions.

Looking down on Luxmore Hut
Private Huts

Across Australia and New Zealand, private huts offer a simple yet authentic way to stay close to the landscape.

Styles vary by region, from rustic alpine huts perched high above Lake Tekapo to the more comfortable Cradle Huts along Tasmania’s Overland Track, where you can enjoy hot showers and warm bedding after a day on the trail. Most huts are multi share with shared bathroom facilities, reflecting their remote settings.

This style of accommodation keeps you immersed in the environment while providing practical shelter in some of Australasia’s most iconic walking regions.

The Southwest Suites on board Expedition vessel Odalisque reflect the moody colours of Tasmania's south west.
On Water Expeditions

On our water based expeditions in Australia and New Zealand, accommodation ranges from well equipped small cruise vessels to more luxurious expedition ships.

In New Zealand, small cruise boats provide comfortable cabins with all bedding supplied. Bathroom facilities may be shared or ensuite, and meals are freshly prepared on board by the vessel’s crew, allowing you to relax and take in the scenery between shore excursions.

In the Kimberley and parts of the Pacific, the True North offers a premium expedition experience, with stylish cabins, private ensuite facilities, in house entertainment and satellite communications. The Odyssey, a 20 berth twin hulled cruise vessel, features standard or deluxe cabins with shared facilities, delivering a relaxed and intimate cruising experience.

Bas Kruisselbrink - New Zealand guide
Bas Kruissellbrink

Born in the Netherlands, Bas was literally raised on a bicycle. At the age of 16 he cycled with a friend from Holland to Spain and Portugal; the start of a life full of cycling adventures. Bas loves sharing his cycle expertise and speaks Dutch, English and German and is proficient in French and Spanish.

Eamon Larkin - Australasia guide
Eamon Larkin

Eamon comes from a background in adventure and outdoor education with over 15 years experience working with students and schools, now teaching and assessing potential guides. He has a passion for travel and trekking through various countries, learning languages along the way. Eamon lives on the south coast of NSW which he enjoys exploring in his sea kayak in all types of weather.

Shane Goodwin - Papua New Guinea trekking guide
Shane Goodwin

Shane has completed over 20 expeditions as head guide and has led numerous tours within PNG on a regular basis. Shane is a qualified and licensed outdoor recreation guide under the Australian National Training framework and has had extensive experience in leading treks along the Kokoda Track and ascending Mt Wilhelm. Shane has a keen military history interest spending many hours studying the battles which took place on the Kokoda Track. His relationship with the villagers is noted by our clients and some of this may be attributed to his ability to speak Tok Pisin (pidgin English) which is widely spoken in PNG.

Australian Operations Manager Mark Bennic | Chris Buykx
Mark Bennic

Mark manages all the complex logistics for the operation of our Australian treks and adventures, moving with the seasons. In the winter months he is based in the Northern Territory and keeps our Larapinta and Top End tours running smoothly. Over the summer Tasmania and Launceston are home base while he coordinates the busy team for Tasmanian Expeditions. Mark has spent a significant amount of time with indigenous communities forging associations that are enjoyed by our travellers and closely ensures that all our Aussie trips maintain a strong eco focus.

Holly Van de Beek - Australia trekking guide
Holly Van de Beek

Holly-Mae grew up in Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsular and has been with World Expeditions for several years. She loves being out in the bush, being totally self sufficient and able to live out of what’s in her pack that she carries on her back every day. Although she has been guiding for a few years, she is constantly surprised and in awe of the beauty and power of nature.

Louise Vargaya Conza - New Zealand guide
Louise Vargaya-Conza

Louise is camp mum. She ensures our clients are re-energised with delicious meals and can rest their weary bones in a comfortable bed after each day's activities on tour. She also organises any pre and post tour accommodation, and in the winter months, guides cycling tours in Peru with her husband Rudy.

Nicole Mulcahy - New Zealand guide
Nicole Mulcahy

Nicole is a Kiwi who has fallen in love with guiding bush walks in Australia. After studying outdoor education she has guided sea kayaking, bush walking and cycling trips in both New Zealand and Australia. While her favourite Australian bush walk is Bungles Bungles, her favourite part about guiding is that it gives her the opportunity to share with people what these amazing places have to offer and enhance their understanding and experiences.

Peter Sexton - New Zealand guide
Peter Sexton

The reward of a terrific meal, a bottle of wine or a block of chocolate are likely to be found in any adventure where Peter is involved. Having left the corporate world behind years ago, nowadays he spends his time amongst the mountain peaks and hilly roads with his wife Angela in between guiding in New Zealand and Australia.

Wanda Vivequin - New Zealand guide
Wanda Vivequin

Born in Holland and raised in Kenya, Lebanon, Canada and New Zealand, Wanda developed her love for travel early on. She loves nothing more than sharing her passion for New Zealand, its history and stunning landscapes with visitors to the country. Wanda is an avid cyclist, hiker, skier and lover of the Himalaya where she has visited and guided for 15 years.

Judd Hill - Australasia kayaking guide
Judd Hill

Judd has travelled extensively throughout the world, both for fun and working as a qualified chef, hiking guide and sea kayak guide and instructor; a role he has filled for over a decade. Judd started his kayak guiding in Far North Queensland in 2000 and has since worked in such exotic destinations as Fiji, Panama, Palawan, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea, Spitsbergen, Greenland and the Russian Far East. Judd is equally at home above and under the water, be it scuba diving, sailing or just playing around with boats. He has his commercial coxswains ticket, is a Rescue Scuba diver and is also trained in Wilderness First Aid.

Oscar Bedford - Australia trekking guide
Oscar Bedford

Oscar grew up in northwest Tasmania in a remote area on a 60 acre bush block and spent his childhood years exploring the bush. Oscar has travelled to many places around the world including Cambodia, Thailand, Norway, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. Despite his travels, Oscar thinks nothing beats being back on the remote and unique Franklin River and feels privileged to work on it.

Rossco Daubney - New Zealand guide
Rossco Daubney

Rossco loves all things sporting and the great outdoors, encompassed with an appreciation of photography and wine. His interests include multi-sport, sea kayaking, hiking and biking as well as discovering new places. Between tours he can be found with his ‘waterfront apartment’, also known as a campervan, at the Marlborough Sounds.

Kirke Ranson - Australia trekking guide
Kirke Ranson

Kirke is our Australia Operations Coordinator, overseeing all aspects of our team and smoothness of operations. He grew up in New Zealand and studied Outdoor Recreation, working in various outdoor education outfits around Australia and tourism operations overseas. Adventure, travel and outdoors are what get him out of bed in the morning and his spare time is spent on the trail with his bike or snowboarding.

Mike Smith - Adventure South general manager
Mike Smith

Mike loves the outdoors. He is a passionate skier and mountain biker and has recently reconnected with a road bike. Mike worked as Marketing Director for Whakapapa and Turoa Ski Areas on Mt Ruapehu in the North Island before working as the General Manager for Ruapehu Tourism and finally becoming the General Manager for Adventure South.

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Dr Ross Anderson

Dr Anderson lives with his wife in a small town near the Lakes District in the north of England. He is a family doctor and spends much of his spare time travelling as an expedition doctor. He has more than 10 years of altitude and travel medicine experience. Previous treks and expeditions have focused on the Himalayas, with others in the Scandinavian Arctic and mountainous areas of Africa. He also enjoys trail running, cycling and open-water swimming.

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