Downunder’ specials introduced for Canadians

Air New Zealand, Tourism Australia, South Australian Tourism Commission, Tourism Queensland and Tourism Tropical North Queensland have partnered with Downunder Travel Ltd. to offer Canadian travellers specially priced packages to several Australian destinations, including iconic Kangaroo Island — known as the “Galapagos of Australia”– the famed Barossa wine region of South Australia and to Queensland’s World Heritage Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. Packages, which include airfare, accommodation, tours and transfers, can be booked through June 16 for travel departing from July 21 to Sept. 21. A sample itinerary is the “Australia… Naturally Yours”package, 19 days, $4,172 p.p., double occupancy, a savings of $500 per couple. This includes return flights on Air New Zealand, flight from Adelaide to Cairns, all taxes and fuel surcharges, four night’s accommodation in Adelaide, two-night, three-day Kangaroo Island Sealink Tour, flight from Adelaide to Cairns, three night’s Cape Tribulation Rainforest accommodation, three nights Cairns accommodation, Great Barrier Reef snorkelling day tour, Sydney accommodation five nights, tour to Featherdale Wildlife Park and a visit to the Sydney Wildlife Experience. (http://www.downunder-travel.com/airnzaust)