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----- Take your budget further and get 5% off when you use the code WELWIKI5 on your booking through the link on WikiCamps. Enjoy your experience! ----- Go off-road in a custom-designed 4WD vehicle and reach destinations that are otherwise difficult to access. Through the Central Australian landscape, your guide takes you down the very edge of the Finke River and into the impressive Palm Valley. However, the day starts with pick-ups from selected Alice Springs accommodation before travelling through the West MacDonnell Ranges to Hermannsburg, an Aboriginal community and historic precinct known to the local Arrernte people as 'Ntaria'. It's renowned for its Aboriginal art collection and the works of Albert Namatjira. Here you'll enjoy morning tea with scones and tea or coffee. Next, journey down the bed of the Finke River, one of the oldest watercourses in the world, into Palm Valley. Here you'll see spectacular rock forms, white sands and an oasis of rock pools and palm trees. Some plants such as the cycad and 'Livistonia Mariae' (cabbage palm) are known worldwide as relic plants and are unique to Central Australia. Visit a spectacular rock formation known as the Amphitheatre, and enjoy a picnic lunch. On the journey back to Alice Springs, admire the changing colours of the magnificent West MacDonnell Ranges in the afternoon light.