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.
Kokoda Track
Moderate to Challenging
11 days
Alpine Climbing Course
Entry Level Mountaineering or Exploratory Treks
Technical Grading
7 days
Ultimate Yasawa Sea Kayak Expedition
9 days
Palau Kayaking Expedition
Introductory to Moderate
Yasawa Islands Sea Kayaking - Fiji
Moderate
Women, Wild & Wise: Tasmania’s Flinders Island with Suzan Muir
6 days
Ngaro Track Walk In Comfort
3 days
Ngaro Track Full Pack Guided Hike
Classic Larapinta Trek in Comfort
Flinders Island Walking Adventure - In Comfort
Girraween National Park Walk in Comfort
5 days
Gondwana Rainforest Walk in Comfort
4 days
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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-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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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