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Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park – Where to Stop Along the Way, Northern Territory, Australia.

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park – Where to Stop Along the Way

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory Top End is an easy three-hour drive on good bitumen roads, but you can break up the journey with stops on the way at Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Windows on the Wetlands, Adelaide River Jumping Crocodile Cruises, and Mary River National Park.

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory to do some of the country’s best indigenous guided experiences, absorb ancient Aboriginal rock art, swim in serene waterholes, cruise through mangroves teeming with wildlife, go birdwatching or barramundi fishing, and hike up stone escarpments to savour sunsets over spectacular landscapes, will form some of the most meaningful memories of your Australia trip. As far as we’re concerned it’s one of the best road trips in Australia.

And now is the time to plan your trip. People talk of the Top End having two seasons, the Wet and Dry, however, the Aboriginal people use a more nuanced calendar of six seasons: Gunumeleng (pre-monsoon season, mid-October to late December); Gudjewg (monsoon season, January–March); Banggerreng (knock ’em down storm season, April); Yegge (cooler but still humid season, May to mid-June); Wurrgeng (cold weather season, mid-June to mid-August); and Gurrung (hot dry season, mid-August to mid-October).

While many foreign travellers to the Northern Territory will do a tour from Darwin to Kakadu National Park, Australians prefer to take their time and drive. Why not do what Australian travellers do and rent a 4WD or hire a campervan or motorhome to drive from Darwin to Kakadu National Park. Allow a minimum of three days and nights, but five to eight days is much better.

While you can see a lot in a 2WD vehicle, you’ll experience far more with a 4WD. See our top tips to doing road trips in Australia to learn more about why a 4WD vehicle will be your best option for road tripping Australia. 

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park is an easy three-hour drive on good bitumen roads, but you can break up the journey with stops on the way at lush Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Windows on the Wetlands, Adelaide River Jumping Crocodile Cruises, and Mary River National Park.

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu’s main township of Jabiru is an easy 254-kilometre drive of two hours and 45 minutes along good sealed roads – or around three hours with a quick food and fuel stop. You can leave Darwin in the morning and be at Jabiru for lunch. From Darwin to the Kakadu National Park entry it’s 152 kilometres, which will probably take you about one hour and 45 minutes.

Then from the Kakadu National Park entry – which is really just a border post, where you’ll probably want a photo op – it’s another 100 kms and an hour-long drive to Jabiru. Jabiru is Kakadu’s main township – really just a hamlet – where you’ll find some accommodation with bistros, ATMs, a supermarket, petrol station, post office, and offices for tour companies and aerial flights. But what’s your hurry?

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu is much more fascinating with a few stops along the way at Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Windows on the Wetlands, and a Jumping Crocodile Cruise at Adelaide River and you can still do the journey in a day. If you can spare a night or even two, you can also spend some time at Mary River National Park.

For foreign travellers who prefer not to self-drive from Darwin to Kakadu National Park, we tested several tours to Kakadu and Arnhem Land when we updated Australia guidebooks and loved the award-winning Lord’s Safaris led by owner-operator Sab Lord, who grew up with the traditional owners, and uses indigenous guides on his private 4WD trips.

Various other companies also offer small-group 3-day, 4-day and 5-day 4WD camping safaris from Darwin to Kakadu and Arnhem Land, which include the Mary River Region and Litchfield National Park.

At the time of writing this, Luxury Escapes has an offer for a 4-day ‘Outback Adventure’ including three nights in a bush bungalow at Mary River Retreat (see below) with all meals, two wetlands cruises, and a tour Litchfield National Park for A$799 per person, valued up to A$1,799.

The advantage of tours like these is that you’re led by expert guides who know the area, you don’t have to drive, and everything is included, from national park fees to all meals.

But if you’re not bothered by the driving and you like the idea of having the freedom to explore on your own, we highly recommend driving from Darwin to Kakadu and this is how to do it.

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park – Where to Stop on the Way

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu National Park is a truly memorable drive, especially when you break up the journey at spots like Fogg Dam, Windows on the Wetlands, Adelaide River, and Mary River National Park.

Darwin to Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve

Driving from Darwin to Kakadu is a cinch in terms of directions as the route is so well sign-posted. Leaving Darwin, follow the signs for Palmerston, Katherine and Alice Springs. You’ll be heading southeast along the Stuart Highway for 35 kilometres, passing market gardens growing tropical fruit such as mangoes and dragonfruit, before turning left onto the Arnhem Highway for Kakadu National Park and Jabiru.

Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve is 22 kilometres from the Stuart Highway turn-off, and then 1 kilometre off Arnhem Highway, and it’s a favourite stop for most travellers driving from Darwin to Kakadu. It was established in the 1950s to irrigate an experimental rice project at nearby Humpty Doo, with the aim of boosting the local economy. It was unsuccessful for numerous reasons, but mainly because migrating birds ate the rice crops. The abundant birdlife is the reason to visit this lush wildlife sanctuary.

Amble across the barrage to Pandanus Lookout where there’s a bird hide, which offers sweeping views of the wetlands and the birds, including the cheeky comb-crested jacanas or ‘Jesus birds’, along with geese and egrets. It’s a 2.5-kilometre return walk. If you linger for a while, it can take an hour.

Other easy sign-posted strolls include the Monsoon Forest Walk (2.7 kilometres return and take an hour to 1.5 hours if you take your time) through several natural habitats from floodplains to paperbark forests, and the Woodlands to Waterlily Walk along a boardwalk through mangrove forests skirting the lagoon (2.2 kilometres return and will take no more than an hour and closer to 45 minutes if you take your time).

Note the warning signs: saltwater crocodiles inhabit the dam, so take care. Don’t leave the boardwalks and keep away from the lagoon’s edge.

From Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve to Window on the Wetlands

Don’t get too settled, as it’s just a 2-kilometre drive along the Arnhem Highway from Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve to the Window on the Wetlands, which will be on your left. It’s a fairly steep walk up to the visitor’s centre on Beatrice Hill from the car park, however, there’s a drop-off area for passengers if needed.

Another popular stop for travellers driving from Darwin to Kakadu, the impressive Window on the Wetlands visitor’s centre (open 8am–7.30pm; off Arnhem Highway, 21kms east of Stuart Highway) provides a fantastic introduction to your time in the region. The Windows on the Wetlands observation tower’s upswept lines reflect the contours of the hill, which the local Aboriginals, the Limilngan-Wulna people, call the Ludawei as it represents Lulak or ‘turtle dreaming’ and has a great deal of spiritual significance.

The Window on the Wetlands offers sweeping views across Adelaide River floodplain and its exhibitions provide an in-depth overview on the ecology of the wetlands. If you’re travelling with kids, they’ll adore the interactive elements, which cover subjects such as the Top End seasons, the environment, wildlife, and feral animals.

If you enjoy birdwatching, then the best time to visit is between December and July for the largest number of birds, although keep in mind that December to March is the Wet season, when the area experiences monsoonal rains. While the Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve has all-weather access and is open all year, you may not enjoy it if your idea of a holiday is a dry one.

From the Window on the Wetlands to Adelaide River

It’s just a 1-kilometre drive along the Arnhem Highway to the Adelaide River, which is clearly sign-posted and you’ll quickly spot the turn-off on your right just before the bridge to the designated car park. Adelaide River is best known for its ‘jumping crocodile cruises’ and it’s another popular spot for travellers driving from Darwin to Kakadu, even if they don’t do a cruise.

This Litchfield Park Tour & Jumping Crocodile Cruise is a very popular one and is an all-day tour and cruise from Darwin.

We’re reluctant to encourage you to do this, as it’s not natural for ‘salties’ to rise two metres out of the river to snap ferociously at raw meat. However, the experts are divided on whether it’s dangerous behaviour to encourage or not and this jaw-dropping spectacle is hugely popular, so we’ll leave it at that for you to decide whether to stop for a cruise or not.

Crocodiles are a presence in the Top End and you’ll have other opportunities to see them in their natural habitat. There are two types of crocodile found in northern Australia: the freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstonii) or ‘freshie’, growing to around three metres, and the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) or ‘saltie’, found in salt and freshwater, and often growing six metres in length. While ‘freshies’ are generally shy, ‘salties’ are aggressive and take one to two lives a year in northern Australia.

Which means it’s important to look for crocodile warning signs and not to be as complacent as some of the locals we’ve seen, especially fishermen, who have walked knee-deep around their boats in crocodile-infested waters at spots such as Shady Camp Reserve and Rockhole.

There are few rivers in the area that saltwater crocodiles don’t inhabit, so don’t assume that all natural waterholes are safe for swimming. When the water rises during the wet season, crocodiles can swim from rivers into waterholes and if they don’t swim out again before the water subsides they need to be trapped and removed by rangers before they’re ‘safe’ again, although some swimming spots are never entirely safe.

From Adelaide River to Mary River National Park

From Adelaide River, continue to drive 29 kilometres southeast on the Arnhem Highway and you’ll arrive at the Mary River Crossing and Mary River National Park. A popular fishing spot with locals, it’s also another must-do stop for travellers driving from Darwin to Kakadu, as it provides a chance to see some crocs up close.

Just after the river, you’ll spot the turn-off to Mary River Wilderness Retreat, which is the closest lodgings to the Arnhem Highway for Mary River National Park if you’re planning to stay overnight.

If you’re keen on birdlife and fishing, then you could continue along the Arnhem Highway for another 21 kilometres to the turn-off on your left for Point Stuart Road. There’s an abundance of birds in the area, too, everything from elegant Jabirus or black-necked storks. This route takes you along a sealed road through Mary River National Park to Mary River Wetlands Cruise for the birdlife, and to Rockhole, a popular fishing spot, with camping at Couzens Lookout.

The next turn-off leads to Point Stuart Wilderness Lodge, 36 kilometres away, where you can fish or do a wetlands cruise. If you continue straight ahead you’ll eventually come to the turn-off for Shady Camp, another popular fishing spot where you can hire boats, although there’s little to interest anyone other than fishing lovers. This is 40 kilometres from the Arnhem Highway, so it’s a bit of effort unless you plan to throw a line in.

Although the barrage here divides the fresh water and sea’s tidal reach, saltwater crocodiles have been known to access both sides so do take care. If you have a pre-arranged your pick-up for Bamurru Plains, continue along Harold Knowles Road to be met at Swim Creek Station gate. The road remains sealed for 25 kilometres and then turns into a sandy dirt road.

Accommodation in and around the Mary River National Park includes Wildman Wilderness Lodge, Point Stuart Wilderness Lodge, and Bamurru Plains, which must be booked in advice; you cannot drive to Bamurru Plains without a reservation.

While accessible from May to September in the Dry season, much of this region consists of flood plains and from October to April roads are subject to flooding and can be impassable for months when much of the area can be underwater.

A rather special experience of Mary River National Park allows you to see it all from air and water. This Mary River Airboat, Safari Cruise and Helicopter Tour includes a breathtaking helicopter flight to and from Corroboree Billabong over lush floodplains, an exhilarating 45-minute airboat adventure, and a 90-minute safari cruise on the Mary River Wetlands. You’ll spot wallabies, jabirus, sea eagles, kites, kingfishers, jacanas, brolgas, and buffaloes. If you’re driving from Darwin to Kakadu you can arrange to meet at Mary River

This Culture and Wildlife Tour with Pudakul Aboriginal Cultural Tours also includes a lunch cruise on the Mary River Wetlands and Corroboree Billabong, spotting saltwater crocodiles and native flora and birdlife, however, you’ll also get to engage with local indigenous people, learn basket weaving, try your hand at throwing a spear, have a go on a didgeridoo, learn about local bush food and medicine, and taste bush damper and billy tea.

If you decide against driving from Darwin to Kakadu, this Mary River Wetlands Cruise from Darwin takes in Fogg Dam Nature Reserve, the Window on the Wetlands, Adelaide River, and a 2.5-hour cruise on the wetlands, where you’ll see an abundance of birds (some 30 species!) and wildlife, including the largest concentration of saltwater crocodiles in the world.

From Mary River National Park to Kakadu National Park and Mamukala Wetlands

From the Arnhem Highway-Point Stuart Road turn-off it’s around 120 kilometres to Jabiru, but just 18 kilometres or a 15-minute drive to the Kakadu National Park boundary for that photo op. If you stayed overnight at Mary River Wilderness Retreat then it’s 140 kilometres or an 80-minute drive to Jabiru, the main hub for Kakadu National Park.

En route you can visit the Mamukala Wetlands, 110 kilometres from Mary River Wilderness Retreat and another essential stop for travellers driving from Darwin to Kakadu. You’ll see the turn-off on your right, 7 kilometres east of South Alligator River.

This lush Mamukala Wetlands wetlands are home to thousands of magpie geese, especially in the late dry season, from September to October, when they congregate en masse. There’s an observation platform offering expansive views although an easy 3-kilometre walk enables you to get closer. Allow one hour.

From Mamukala Wetlands it’s just 32 kilometres along the Arnhem Highway to the gateway to Kakadu National Park, the Bowali Visitor Centre. It will be on your right and there’s always plenty of parking. If you didn’t buy your Kakadu National Park passes online, this is where you can buy them.

Do let us know if you have any questions on driving from Darwin to Kakadu and see our next post on Kakadu National Park, which we’ll follow with a guide to driving from Kakadu National Park to Litchfield National Park via Pine Creek and Adelaide River. Also see our post on Kakadu to the Kimberley.

Image courtesy of Luxury Escapes

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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