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SOUTH AUSTRALIA

	Coopers Kangaroo Island Cup Carnival - Feb 17th - 19th 2012
	Kangaroo Island comes alive over the Coopers Kangaroo Island Cup Carnival weekend held at the beautiful Cygnet River Race Course, a few kilometres from Kingscote. This country racecourse is transformed at this time of the year with trackside marquees, colourful signs and flags and a party atmosphere. More and more people are making a long weekend of it and enjoying the carnival atmosphere of the Coopers Kangaroo Island Cup. More Information

South Australia is a State of contrasts and surprises. You can tour all of our regions on an extended visit or pick a region to suit the seasons, and your idea of a holiday.

In this website you will find each of South Australia’s 12 tourism regions plus some sub-regions described in brief with touring ideas, local attractions, events and a regional map.

South Australia’s popularity as a travel destination has a lot to do with good living. The locals enjoy it every day; a lifestyle that combines fine south australian wine, fresh quality locallly produced food, arts, festivals, and major national and international sporting events.

South Australia is renowned throughout the world for its award-winning wine. In fact, around half of Australia’s wines are grown and made here in a number of tourism regions, the Barossa, Clare Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula, Limestone Coast, Adelaide Hills, Riverland, Hindmarsh Island and even Kangaroo Island and our newest wine region The Southern Flinders.

NATURE, WILDLIFE AND THE OUTBACK

South Australia is an essential destination for anyone with a passion for nature and wildlife. If whale-watching interests you then both the Eyre and Fleurieu Peninsulas are ideal destinations between June and October any year. Kangaroo Island is one of the world’s most renowned wildlife havens and the Murraylands is an ideal region to explore life along the mighty Murray River.

The Flinders Ranges and Outback are uniquely Australian: and no other part of the country offers such easy access to this ancient landscape than South Australia’s capital city, Adelaide.

The Outback begins in the southern Flinders Ranges, a comfortable easy two-hour drive north of Adelaide on sealed roads.

A terrain of vivid red soil, dramatic ridges and peaks and vast spreads of native flowers in spring, make a memorable lasting impression on every visitor.