Study Tour - LPNI

Arrive into Alice Springs, and transfer to your accommodation. This evening you will enjoy a

welcome dinner and introduction to the tour program.

Accommodation: Mercure Alice Springs Resort, 34 Stott Ter, Alice Springs

After breakfast you will visit Anzac Hill for an overview of the city, and then go on to the Royal

Flying Doctor Base and Museum to learn how a Lutheran layman, Alf Traeger, helped establish this

vast aerial medical service. From there you will go to the School of the Air which provides education

for children living in remote Outback areas.

In the afternoon you will visit the Overland Telegraph Station, and Adelaide House, the first Alice

Springs hospital.

Today there will be a day-long seminar at the Lutheran church at 49 Gap Rd.

After breakfast this morning you will join members of the Lutheran

Church for bi-lingual worship.

Following the service you will learn something of the work of

Lutheran Community Care, and then enjoy a community luncheon.

After lunch you will visit Yirara College on the outskirts of Alice

Springs. Yirara is a boarding secondary college for Aboriginal

students from remote Outback areas.

Today you will visit Simpson’s Gap on the way to the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission Community,

where you will learn about the history of Lutheran mission and ministry among the Aboriginal people.

This morning you will visit the Alice Springs Desert Park to see many of Australia’s unique

marsupial animals – some well known, others not so well known.

You will then drive out to iconic Standley Chasm, to be there at midday, when the sun is overhead.

You will be able to purchase lunch at the chasm, before returning to Alice Springs to visit Araluen

where you will be able to view some unique art works by Australia’s Aboriginal artists, including

works by the late Albert Namatjira, a Lutheran from Herrmansburg who became one of Australia’s

best-known artists.

The formal part of the tour comes to an end with a farewell dinner this evening.

After breakfast this morning it’s time to depart, either for home or for further touring in Australia.

Optional Add-on

An optional ‘extra’ you may wish to consider is a visit to iconic Uluru (Ayers Rock), the world's

largest rock. Uluru is a six-hour drive or 45-minute flight from Alice Springs. Two-or three-day

coach tours operate out of Alice Springs. The three-day tours include a day visit to Kings Canyon –

Australia’s ‘Grand Canyon’.

Anyone who wants to visit Uluru at the end of the program in Alice Springs should book this

with their travel agent as part of their international travel.

For further information, contact the Rev Robert Wiebusch: [email protected]