trip

4 Days$1980USD

Activities
  • 4 days walking
Accommodation
  • 3 nights eco lodge
Meals
  • 3 Dinners
  • 4 Lunches
  • 3 Breakfasts
4
Introductory to Moderate

Traveller Rating

 

 
 

Twelve Apostles Trip highlights


  • Twelve Apostles Walk is a trip of the Great Walks of Australia
  • Trek through Eucalypt forests with native rosemary, cushion plants and wild flowers in season
  • View the mighty limestone Apostles from the Gables Lookout, one of Australia’s highest cliff-top vistas
  • Spend your evenings at the Twelve Apostles Lodge, a stunning eco-lodge in Johanna with chef-inspired meals

Don't have time for a long trip away? This fully guided four day walking adventure takes in the rugged beauty of the world famous Twelve Apostles, allowing you to escape the hustle and bustle of life and fully rejuvinate your senses in just four short days. Departing from Melbourne, this trip will visit renowned destinations including Johanna Beach, Moonlight Head, The Gables, Wreck Beach and of course the stunning Twelve Apostles. Over four amazing days, you will sample the most picturesque stages of the trail, walking past dramatic coastal terrain. Chef-inspired meals, transfers from Melbourne, a stunning eco-lodge, daypacks and waterproof jackets are all provided. Your expert guides are with you every step of the way, teaching you about the history, flora and fauna of the breathtaking landscape you are walking through.

Trip Code: GOW

The group will meet at 7:45am at the Mercure Melbourne Southbank in Melbourne (9 Riverside Quay, Southbank VIC 3000). Our guide will introduce you to the other walkers before departing for our drive to Blanket Bay. Be dressed and ready to walk, with your daypack fully packed for the days' walk ahead. After a scenic drive from Melbourne, we start the first section of the walk at Blanket Bay, one of the highlights of the Great Ocean Walk. We follow the coast of Great Otway National Park, climb along cliff tops and walk barefoot on golden sand beaches. Learning about the unique flora and fauna as you go from our expert guides. Koalas, kangaroos, and echidnas, you are sure to see some local wildlife on this unique part of the trail. The Cape Otway Lighthouse makes for a great end to the walk, where our guides can teach you all about the naval history of the area. From the lighthouse, we transfer you to our private lodge in Johanna, where we welcome you with a glass of local sparkling and a spectacular long table dinner of fresh Apollo Bay seafood to celebrate your first day of walking.

Meals:  L,D

Challenge delivers great reward. Wild, weathered headlands give the sense you’re at the world’s edge. Today Day 2 is your hardest day out on the track but with it comes spectacular seascapes and personal triumph. We start with a 30 minute drive that brings us to the beginning of our walk at Milanesia Track, which covers some of the most remote sections of the Great Ocean Walk, known as the 'wild side'. The ocean is your steadfast companion across 14.5 kilometres of rolling terrain today, beginning with a descent onto Milanesia Beach. Here, your guide will point out a ‘natural rock wall’ that would be the envy of any budding young climber. After a fleeting beach visit, it’s a short but bracing climb that whispers of inclines to come. Over the next hours, the trail carves its way through deep gullies with tree ferns and towering remnant Eucalypts. There are 132 steps to ascend before trailing west out of the forest to Ryans Den. On suitable days, this is your lunch perch. The Den gifts with unsurpassed views across to Cape Volney and Cape Otway. The walk from here rises and falls many times as it parallels the coastline before cutting along the ridge behind Cape Volney, providing breathtaking views to the west. A final seated lookout delivers a magnificent vantage point, just metres from the walk’s end.

Meals:  B,L,D

After breakfast it’s a 30 minute transfer to Moonlight Head. The first four and half kilometres gently meander through native stringybark forest providing a contrast to the coast, concluding with a rise to the Gables, one of mainland Australia’s highest cliff top lookouts. Tide-dependent, you will descend onto Wreck Beach and explore the historic shipwreck ruins before continuing through to Devil’s Kitchen for lunch and onto the historic Fiji shipwreck memorial. Wilder days will give an insight into the cauldron-like ocean at this part of the coast. After lunch, we follow the Devil’s Kitchen Track through fern gullies and over a ridge populated with grass trees to Wreck Beach carpark. On our way back to the lodge we divert for a short walk around Melba Gully, an enchanting rainforest gully with towering Mountain Ash and Beech Myrtle with an understory of tree ferns and waterfalls. After returning to the lodge we celebrate our last night together with a rejuvenating foot spa, a long table dinner and a glass of local wine.

Meals:  B,L,D

Enjoy your final morning at Twelve Apostles Walking Lodge. After another wholesome breakfast, there’s a final pack up, check out and lodge farewell before a 45 minute drive to Princetown. These fabulous natural wonders emerge on slow reveal as the trail rises and falls along the coastline. There is a viewing lookout exclusively for walkers before our final stretch of trail into the Twelve Apostles Visitors Centre. You’ve made it! We’ll then move on to the nearby town of Timboon where we visit our dairy supplier, Schulz Organic Dairy, for lunch before returning to Melbourne. We offer a drop off to the airport and Melbourne CBD after your walk. Tullamarine drop off time: 5:30pm, in time for domestic flights from 6:30pm and international flights after 7:30pm. Melbourne CBD (Mercure Melbourne Southbank) drop off is by 6pm.

Meals:  B,L


Inclusions

  • 3 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners
  • 3 nights eco-lodge accommodation twin share with linen and towels
  • Daily morning and afternoon tea
  • Non-alcoholic beverages and a selection of local beer and wine
  • Professional walking guide, driver and support staff
  • Use of a day pack, ankle gaiters, walking poles, and waterproof jacket during the trip
  • All entrance and national park fees
  • Emergency communications and group first aid kit
  • Return transfers Melbourne/Twelve Apostles Walking Lodge/Melbourne
  • Daily foot baths including mineral salts

  • Travel to and from Melbourne
  • Accommodation in Melbourne before and after the trip
  • Items of a personal nature such as laundry and car parking
  • Travel insurance

Accommodation


Departure dates

Departs Tuesdays between September and May

Notes

HS
Holiday Season
H
High Season
DN1
A high season supplement applies from 1 October to 30 April.
DN2
In addition to the World Expeditions deposit, you will also be required to pay an additional deposit of AUD$500 (paid in your local currency at the current rate of exchange). The balance of the tour price is payable 90 days prior to departure.
DN3
A public holiday supplement applies on trips that overlap with a public holiday. This applies in addition to the high season supplement.

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Priceper person from

$1980USD

Options & Supplements*
  • Single Supplement until 31 May 2025USD$1360
  • Single Supplement from 1 September 2025 (low season)USD$1260
  • Single Supplement from 1 September 2025 (high season)USD$1420
*Prices listed are per person

Essential Information

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