Must-see attractions in South Australia

  • Test cricket match at the Adelaide Oval with the heritage scoreboard in background.

    Adelaide Oval

    Adelaide

    Hailed as the world’s prettiest cricket ground, the Adelaide Oval hosts interstate and international cricket matches in summer, plus national AFL and…

  • Central market.

    Central Market

    Adelaide

    A tourist sight or a shopping op? Either way, satisfy your deepest culinary cravings at the 250-odd stalls in superb Adelaide Central Market. A sliver of…

  • Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
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    Flinders Chase National Park

    Kangaroo Island

    Occupying the western end of Kangaroo Island, Flinders Chase National Park is one of SA’s top national parks. Much of the park is mallee scrub, but there…

  • Front entrance (The Elder Wing) of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

    Art Gallery of South Australia

    Adelaide

    Spend a few hushed hours in the vaulted, parquetry-floored gallery that represents the big names in Australian art. Permanent exhibitions include…

  • Australia, South Australia, Adelaide. The South Australian Museum.

    South Australian Museum

    Adelaide

    Dig into Australia’s natural history with the museum's special exhibits on whales and Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. Over two levels, the amazing…

  • Seal Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, Australasia
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    Seal Bay Conservation Park

    Kangaroo Island

    'Observation, not interaction' is the mentality here. Guided tours stroll along the beach (or boardwalk on self-guided tours; adult/child/family $16/13/42…

  • Snelling Beach, Kangaroo Island. Beautiful aerial view at sunset.
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    Snelling Beach

    Kangaroo Island

    The best swimming beach on the north coast, with a lovely arc of powdery white sand and sheltered shallows. There's not much else at Snelling by way of…

  • "Located in Flinders Chase National Park, the impressive Remarkable Rocks are a cluster of precariously balanced granite boulders which have been shaped by the erosive forces of wind, sea spray and rain over some 500 million years."
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    Remarkable Rocks

    Kangaroo Island

    At Kirkpatrick Point, a few kilometres east of Cape du Couedic, the much-photographed, rather Dalí-esque Remarkable Rocks are a cluster of hefty, weather…

  • Migration Museum

    Migration Museum

    Adelaide

    This engaging social-history museum tells the story of the many migrants who have made SA their home. The museum has info on 100-plus nationalities logged…

  • MOD.

    Adelaide

    Innovative MOD. science museum on the University of South Australia campus races towards the future, with seven interactive, surprising gallery spaces…

  • Adelaide-Himeji Garden

    Adelaide

    Exquisitely manicured, fenced Japanese gardens on a quiet reach of South Tce. A top spot for a quiet lunch/mediation/snooze in the sun. Himeji is Adelaide…

  • South Australian Aviation Museum

    Adelaide

    This not-for-profit collection of retired old birds (plus rockets from Woomera and a not-so-old F-111) roosts in an old hangar in the Port Adelaide back…

  • Adelaide Park Lands

    Adelaide Park Lands

    Adelaide

    The city centre and upmarket North Adelaide are surrounded by a broad band of parkland. Colonel William Light, Adelaide’s controversial planner, came up…

  • Palm House, Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

    Adelaide Botanic Gardens

    Adelaide

    Meander, jog or chew through your trashy airport novel in these lush city-fringe gardens. Highlights include a restored 1877 palm house, the water-lily…

  • Giant Panda (Wang Wang; male), Adelaide Zoo.

    Adelaide Zoo

    Adelaide

    Around 1800 exotic and native mammals, birds and reptiles roar, growl and screech at Adelaide’s wonderful zoo, dating from 1883. There are free walking…

  • West Terrace Cemetery

    West Terrace Cemetery

    Adelaide

    Driven-by and overlooked by most Adelaidians, this amazing old cemetery (established in 1837, and now with 150,000 residents) makes a serene and…

  • National Wine Centre Adelaide South Australia, Australia

    National Wine Centre of Australia

    Adelaide

    Check out the free self-guided, interactive Wine Discovery Journey exhibition at this very sexy wine centre (doubling as a research facility for the…

  • Adelaide Gaol

    Adelaide Gaol

    Adelaide

    Only decommissioned in 1988 after housing 300,000 inmates since 1841, this old Victorian lock-up has a grim vibe, but its displays of homemade bongs,…

  • Bay Discovery Centre

    Bay Discovery Centre

    Adelaide

    This low-key museum in Glenelg’s 1887 Town Hall building depicts the social history of Glenelg from colonisation to today, and addresses the plight of the…

  • Penfolds Vineyards, Robe, South AUstralia, Australia

    Penfolds Magill Estate Winery

    Adelaide

    This 175-year-old winery is home to Australia's best-known wine − the legendary Grange. Taste the product at the cellar door; dine at the fab restaurant…

  • Haigh's Chocolates Visitor Centre

    Haigh's Chocolates Visitor Centre

    Adelaide

    If you’ve got a chocolate problem, get guilty at this iconic factory. Free 25-minute tours take you through the chocolate life-cycle from cacao bean to…

  • Statue of Colonel William Light

    Statue of Colonel William Light

    Adelaide

    The famous statue of Adelaide's town planner (official name Light’s Vision) sits atop the grassy flanks of Montefiore Hill in North Adelaide.

  • Mall's Balls

    Mall's Balls

    Adelaide

    Check out the infamous and very shiny Mall’s Balls sculpture in Rundle Mall (real name Spheres, by sculptor Burt Flugelman).

  • Frenchman's Rock

    Kangaroo Island

    When intrepid French explorer Nicholas Baudin surveyed the KI coast in 1803, he came ashore at what's now Penneshaw for a look around. He left his mark:…

  • Clifford's Honey Farm

    Kangaroo Island

    It's worth swimming the Backstairs Passage for the honey ice cream (sourced from rare Ligurian bees) at this charming, uncommercial farm, which is a bit…

  • Kangaroo Island Farmers Market

    Kangaroo Island

    Has baked goods, chutneys, seafood, olive oil, honey, eggs, cheese, yoghurt and of course wine and dodgy buskers (including, once, a certain Lonely Planet…

  • Adelaide Town Hall

    Adelaide

    Built in 1866 under the guidance of architect Edmund W Wright, Adelaide's impressive stone Town Hall presides over King William St, locked in an eternal…

  • Waterfall Gully

    Adelaide

    Yes, it's a gully. And yes, there's a waterfall at the end of it – a rather spectacular 30m-tall one, too, especially if it's been raining in the Adelaide…

  • Ravine des Casoars

    Kangaroo Island

    At Harvey's Return near Cape Borda, a cemetery speaks poignant volumes about the reality of isolation in the early days. From here you can drive to Ravine…

  • Kelly Hill Conservation Park

    Kangaroo Island

    This series of dry limestone caves was 'discovered' in the 1880s by a horse named Kelly, who fell into them through a hole. Take the standard show cave…

  • Tramway Museum

    Adelaide

    Up until 1957, Adelaide had an extensive network of trams spider-webbing out from the city into the suburbs. Then costs, an ageing fleet and public…

  • Raptor Domain

    Kangaroo Island

    Check out some KI wedge-tailed eagles, barn owls and kookaburras (all in optimal condition) at a one-hour birds-of-prey display (11.30am and 2.30pm), or…

  • Cape Willoughby Lightstation

    Kangaroo Island

    About 28km southeast of Penneshaw (via an unsealed road) on a treeless headland, this tidy white turret started shining out in 1852 (SA's first lighthouse…

  • South Australian Maritime Museum

    Adelaide

    This salty cache is the oldest of its kind in Australia. Highlights include the iconic Port Adelaide Lighthouse ($1 on its own, or included in museum…

  • Rocky River

    Kangaroo Island

    Once a farm, Rocky River, the area around the park visitors centre, is now a rampant hotbed of wildlife, with kangaroos, wallabies and Cape Barren geese…

  • Freemasons' Grand Lodge

    Adelaide

    This towering sandstone edifice on North Tce has been a bastion of secret handshakes and funny robes since 1927. But like other things that most people…

  • Coopers Brewery

    Adelaide

    You can't possibly come to Adelaide without entertaining thoughts of touring Coopers Brewery. Tours take you through the brewhouse, bottling hall and…

  • Emu Ridge Farm Eucalyptus Distillery

    Kangaroo Island

    A detour off Hog Bay or Birchmore roads takes you past this self-sufficient operation (all solar-, steam- and wind-powered) extracting eucalyptus oil from…

  • JamFactory

    Adelaide

    Quality contemporary local arts and crafts and brilliant bejewelments, plus workshops and a hellishly hot glass-blowing studio turning out gorgeous glass …

  • US Schooner Independence

    Kangaroo Island

    In a big tin boatshed near the American River jetty, the timber ribs of the new US Schooner Independence are slowly starting to resemble a hull. A…

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