Must-see attractions in South Australia

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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).

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

    Kangaroo Island

    Say hello to some local koalas at this private wildlife reserve, best experienced on a Koala Walk (sightings guaranteed). Come back at night for a…

  • Islander Estate Vineyards

    Kangaroo Island

    Started by a renegade Frenchman in 2000, Islander Estate is now a veteran in the KI wine scene, bottling-up un-oaked chardonnay, shiraz and a very fruity…

  • City of Adelaide

    Adelaide

    Wander down to the Port Adelaide docks for a look at the oldest clipper ship in the world (1864). The high-and-dry hulk of the City of Adelaide was…

  • Emu Bay Lavender

    Kangaroo Island

    Lavender is yet another species that thrives in KI's Mediterranean climate. Follow the purple haze to this cute little roadside farm, where you can sniff…

  • Hope Cottage Museum

    Kangaroo Island

    Built on the hill in 1859, this cottage is now a fastidiously maintained National Trust museum decked out in period style, with a reconstructed Masonic…

  • St Peter's Cathedral

    Adelaide

    If not for the Adelaide Oval next door, this imposing sandstone cathedral (harking back to 1869) would be the biggest architectural object within miles…

  • Island Beehive

    Kangaroo Island

    Runs 20-minute factory tours where you can study up on passive, hard-working Ligurian bees and bee-keeping, then stock up on by-products (bee-products?)…

  • National Railway Museum

    Adelaide

    Trainspotters rejoice! A delightfully nerdy museum crammed with railway memorabilia. The bookshop stocks as much Thomas the Tank Engine merchandise as you…

  • 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…

  • Island Beach

    Kangaroo Island

    Loong beach between Penneshaw and American River, backed by rows of fancy beach houses. Go for a wander and see what's washed in on the tide.

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