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Choose your Adventure
Ultimate Australia
Dream up the ultimate road trip in Australia, the ultimate bucket list, and this is what you get. This is one action packed backpacker trip taking in the very best of Australia. Surfing, skydiving, and diving as you head up the coast in search of good times and incredible adventures. It is flexible too, so you can spend up to 6 months completing it as well, and even include some work travel too.
Jet Boating in Sydney harbour - The way to see the sites!
Huge night out for backpackers
4 breakfasts
sim card on arrival and internet time
We know it can be quite scary arriving in another country for the first time, and it is a great help if the first few night are booked. We have booked you in for the first 4 nights and included some nice tours. This will make it easy to meat some other people and get in the travel and party mood!
5 day surf camp includes:
Transfer from Sydney to Byron Bay
Most meals including 3 x dinners, 3 x breakfast, 2 x lunch,
Cool surf instructors.
Surf Lessons: 7 lessons, 5 days surfing.
Equipment: Boards, wetsuits, and accessories all provided.
Accommodation: 4 nights and 5 days at 2 different luxury surf camps
This trip departs every Monday. You decide yourself which Monday you want to start the trip, but if starting on our group start dates this will be 4 days after arriving in Sydney.
The surf camp is a great way to start your trip as this is an activity you can practice all along the east coast of Australia.
The Fraser Island 4x4 includes:
Flexible starting dates
Matched up with a group at time of confirmation
Guide, but you get the opportunity to drive your self too
2 night camping with equipment
Swim in Crystal clear lakes Meet Dingo's
The Fraser Island off roading experience is one of the highlights of any gap year or Australia east coast trip. Fraser Island is a world heritage site, with many stunning fresh water lakes and plenty of dingoes. You are given a Toyota land cruiser or land rover and set free to explore the worlds biggest sand island. Camping under a million bright stars and swimming in crystal clear lakes, you are sure to meet lots of people and share some cool adventures.
Whitsundays sailing Cruise includes:
The worlds most photographed beach
Flexible starting date
1 night and 2 days on the reef
Meals & Accommodation included.
Cruise through the amazing Whitsunday islands on a liveaboard taking in some amazing
beaches and scenery, spending a night on the boat, you will enjoy good food and on unforgettable sunset over the great barrier reef. And you will set foot on the beach that is considered the most beautiful beach of the world. You will find out why!
Mission Beach Skydive includes:
Flexible starting date
Instructor
Plane ride
Jump
Scream
Soft landing
Get ready to have the best minute of your life...Enjoy the picturesque beauty of the great barrier reef stretched out as far as the eye can see as you plummet 11,000 ft to the ground screaming for your mummy. Voted as best jump site in Australia, mission beach will give you the ride of your life.
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Great Barrier Reef Passions of Paradise Trip includes:
Discover the Great Barrier Reef aboard Passions of Paradise the current Australian Tourism Award winner for Adventure Tourism!
With a flexible start date and setting sail daily, you will discover why the great barrier reef is one of the must see destinations in the world - let alone Australia. Teeming with exotic fish life, coral gardens, and spectacular views. This is an eco-friendly exploration of the world’s most amazing ecosystem.
Special permits allow our guests access to Michealmas Cay, and exclusive access to Paradise Reef, away from the crowds. Every afternoon, our bar opens, and guests relax in comfort as we raise the sails and cruise back to Cairns.
White Water Rafting the Tully River Includes
This is so exciting, we get nervous just writing about it!
The Tully River in Cairns is Australia´s best Whitewater Rafting location and you will get to experience every inch of raging thrashing foamy adrenaline fuelled fun it can offer. We will put you in an small group allowing you to raft faster and further, with less interruptions. Believe us when we say there is no better ice breaker than 10 million cublic litres of water, an inflatable raft and a day of pure sunshine.
Highly experienced senior guides who will take you on a more thrilling path through the rapids
Extra challenges such as rock jumping, rapid swimming and raft surfing
Return bus transfers from your accommodation
Up to 5 hours White Water Rafting
BBQ lunch beside the river and afternoon snack
Departs Cairns & Beaches daily 6.30am / ret 6.30pm
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Great barrier reef diving (Optional) livaboard includes:
Flexible starting date
2 nights 3 days on the boat on the Great Barrier Reef
Dive guides
Dive gear
Encounters wit incredible marine life Meals
We have included 11 dives
Cost of the Live aboard bolt on: €499
Imagine spending 3 days and 2 nights on the great barrier reef checking out some of the worlds best dive sites. Untouched natural marine beauty awaits with 11 dives inclusive of all equipment, transfer to the reef and meals.If you are not a certified diver there is the option to upgrade to do your training before (an extra €499) - or during the reef trip (€150).
Excluded
Flights
Insurance
Visa
Accommodation other than stated above
Meals other than included
Please note there are local payments of $385 including Reef tax & Oz Experience local payment and a surf tour local payment. These typically cover government environmental taxes, and payments to accommodation providers in compulsory stop overs.
Gap Year Travel with us is all about adrenaline travel: Extreme sports gap years and exciting adventure travel programmes, offering you genuinely exciting alternatives to make the most of your gap year.
At Xtreme Gap Year we believe your time abroad should develop you personally, and be filled with countless moments of real excitement, gained by doing something out of the ordinary, and seriously cool.
If you are looking for a real gap year challenge and want to push your comfort zone feel free to review our programmes. Our gap year programmes enable you to truly achieve your personal best. Challenging your comfort zone and participating in an extreme sport activity in amazing locations will show you what you are really capable of.