Cradle Mountain & Walls of Jerusalem walk
A guided 4-day Pack Free walk
This fantastic 4-day walking holiday is for our guests who want to experience hiking in Cradle Mountain National Park without having to undertake an arduous walking experience with packs. The stunning walks explore Cradle Mountain and Walls of Jerusalem National Parks. See magnificent Mountain Peaks, spectacular glacial lakes wilderness region of Cradle Mountain is one of Tasmania’s most desirable and iconic walking destinations and a treasure in its own right. With rugged mountain peaks, glacial lakes, ancient rainforests and abundant wildlife, this truly is a special place. Enjoy 3 days Pack Free walk in beautiful Cradle Mountain National Park, marvelling at 360-degree panoramic views of Tasmania’s highest mountains and on day four a challenging day walking into the Walls of Jerusalem rated as hard.
Pack Free Walk
Walk with as little as your camera, water and lunch
Our speciality is providing a pack free experience, ensuring you are not burdened with carrying a heavy pack. This allows you the comfort of enjoying your walking with just a day pack so that you can concentrate on the walking and avoid struggling with carrying your clothes and a heavy pack. Each day you will just need to carry your water and lunch leaving you free to enjoy your walk not endure it!
Peppers Cradle Mountain Lodge
2 nights stay
For two nights stay at the iconic Cradle Mountain set on the edge of the wilderness with stunning alpine views. Our guests will stay in warm comfortable Pencil Pine Cabins featuring gas fires, queen sized bed and a single bed and contemporary decor and furnishings.
Room Configuration: Please note each cabin contains a queen bed and a single bed.
Flexible Stay
Downgrade your hotel and save $
For those who aren’t concerned about staying in luxury accommodation and would rather save money, we offer the choice to downgrade to a standard cottage at Cradle Mountain Discovery Park.
The cottage is based on 2 people sharing a cottage (or solo travellers can pay a single supplement). The cottage has two bedrooms each with a double bed and one bathroom. You will still enjoy all meals with the rest of the guests at Cradle Mountain Lodge for breakfasts and dinners but travel with the guides each day to your alternative accommodation.
Our CEO Guides
Passionate Chief Experience Officers
Our guides are proudly 100% Tasmanian. We call them our CEOs…. Chief Experience Officers and it’s their job to ensure your tour exceeds your expectations. Our guides wonderful sense of humour and vast knowledge of the Tasmanian wilderness, provide the perfect combination to make your experience all that more enjoyable.
Fabulous restaurant meals
Featuring local produce and Tasmanian wine
Our meals will be a special time to gather together as a group and chat and laugh about the day’s adventures. Evenings will be spent in the Highlands Restaurant with forest views where you can dine on modern Tasmania food served with wonderful Tasmanian wine. Dinner will be two courses with entree and main night one and main and dessert night two.
Please see below for a typical menu.
MAINS:
- Line-caught white fish, ginseng rub, softened greens, lemon butter (GF)
- Macquarie harbour Atlantic salmon, roasted asparagus, poached pink eye potato (GF)
- Roasted heirloom vegetable salad, grilled oyster mushroom, bush dust (V, V2, DF, GF, CN)
- Roasted eggplant, Roma tomato, goat cheese, fresh basil, preserved lemon, truffle (V)
- Wallaby Porterhouse scaloppini, tomato, oyster mushroom, brandy cream (GF)
- Nichols Chicken ballotine, poached fig, caper and herb pesto (GF, CN)
- Pressed Scottsdale pork belly, cauliflower purée, chilli caramel (GF)
- Cape Grim Hanger steak, wild mushroom jus, corn salsa, lime (GF)
- Meander Valley Lamb, skordalia, glazed beetroot, charred fennel (GF, DF)
- Venison Striploin, wattleseed essence, wild berry jus, sweet potato (GF)
DESSERTS:
- Burnt orange, blood orange sorbet, toasted orange poppy seed cake (V, GF, DF, CN)
- Chocolate four play, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate (V, CN)
- Wattleseed doughnuts, vanilla cream, berry compote (V)
- Saffron and vanilla crema Catalana, almond biscotti (GF, CN)
Personalised Tours
Maximum of 12 people on tour
We keep our group sizes small and personalised with a maximum of 10 guests per trip, we find this delivers more personalised service, a great social environment and has less impact on the environment.”
Flexible Walking
Choose your level of walks
Our tours are flexible to offer to cater for different levels of fitness and abilities. With two guides on all our tours above 8 people we can cater for different needs and offer easier or more challenging walking options each day such as the summit walk to the top of Cradle Mountain. Alternatively our guests have the option to sit out any day’s walk to relax and enjoy the facilities at Cradle Mountain Lodge.
21 Tourism Awards of Excellence
inclusing Australia's Best Adventure Tourism Company
Life’s an Adventure have won 21 Tourism Awards of Excellence including the Qantas Australian Tourism Award for Australia’s Best Adventure Company. Awards are great, but our biggest accolade which we value even more, is that our clients come back and travel with us time and time again.
Genuinely all-inclusive
You wont even pay for credit card fees when booking
We pride ourselves on providing an all-inclusive experience so you won’t be putting your hand in your pocket for extras along the way. From beautiful a la carte dinners accompanied with Tasmania wine at night, to a helicopter flight to see Cradle Mountain and the surrounds from the air… it is all included. And if for any reason you don’t like helicopter flights we will discount your ticket when you book your tour to remove this item. Add to this daily trail mix, fruit, breakfasts, transfers, guides and walkers lunches and you’ll find you are buying a genuinely all-inclusive experience. Even when you book there are no credit card fees to pay.
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Why should you choose us?
Tour Itinerary
This is an all-inclusive tour with no hidden extras:
- 3 nights at Cradle Mountain Lodge
- 3 x a la carte dinners in the Highland Restaurant featuring beautiful Tasmanian produce
- Tasmanian wine and non-alcoholic drinks served with dinner.
Please note: we advise drinking in moderation as walking can be strenuous. Wine is served to enjoy with your dinner only, if you would like to enjoy alcohol pre or post dinner this will be at your own expense. - 3 x hot breakfasts
- 4 x walkers lunches
- Professionally guided – Our CEO’s – Chief Experience Officers are locals who are passionate, well trained and enthusiastic with the ability to bring to life a depth of information
- Fresh fruit and trail mix to enjoy during your walk
- Transfers to our trails
- Transfers to and from Launceston.
Launceston - Waldheim to Dove Lake - Hanson's Peak optional
SUGGESTED PRE NIGHT ACCOMMODATION: Grand Chancellor Launceston.
DEPARTURE TIME: 7.30am
TRANSFER TIMES: Morning: 2 hour transfer from Launceston to trail. Stop en route at Cradle Mountain Hotel.
Afternoon: 15 minute transfer from end of walk to accommodation.
MAIN WALK GRADE: Walk 9.4km circuit. 5 hours walking with breaks. Good level of fitness required. Medium Grade.
WALK ITINERARY: Meet your friendly Tasmanian guides at 7.30am at the Grand Chancellor, Launceston. From here we drive two hours through the rich fertile farmlands and quaint villages to Cradle Mountain where we drop off our bags at the accommodation and then our adventure begins. Today we will start out through button grass plains and follow Ronny Creek then take a detour to see what the original accommodation was like at Waldheim Chalet, including a short walk through beautiful Alpine Pine trees and myrtles. Lake Lilla track takes us to Dove Lake and our first clear view of the mountain at the iconic Boatshed. We then have the option of circumnavigating Dove Lake or walking to Hansons Peak. During our Dove Lake walk our guides bring the place to life, pointing out the unique local flora and fauna which help make this place so special. You can’t come to Cradle mountain and not do Dove Lake. For those who want more of a challenge, Hanson’s Peak provides some fantastic views of Cradle Mountain and the surrounding valleys. Afterwards we make our way to our accommodation at Cradle Mountain Hotel enjoy fine dining with wine in the restaurant tonight.
Cradle Mountains Circuit - Option to summit Cradle Mountain.
TRANSFER TIMES: Morning: 15 minute transfer from accommodation to trail. Afternoon: 15 minute transfer from the end of the walk to accommodation.
FLEXIBLE WALKING:
Main Walk Grade: Walk 10.2kms. Walk with inclines total climbing 760m. 6-7 hours walking with breaks. Medium Grade. Good level of fitness required.
Optional Cradle Mountain Summit Grade: Total kilometres for the day for those choosing this option is 12.2km. Hard Grade. Excellent level of fitness and agility required as involves rock climbing, boulder hopping and rock scrambling 50%.
MAIN WALK GRADE: Walk 10.2kms. Walk with inclines total climbing 760m. 6-7 hours walking with breaks. Medium Grade. Good level of fitness required. OPTIONAL CRADLE MOUNTAIN SUMMIT GRADE: Optional. Total kilometres for the day for those choosing this option is 12.2km. Hard Grade. Excellent level of fitness and agility required as involves rock climbing, boulder hopping and rock scrambling 50%.
WALK ITINERARY: Enjoy breakfast at Cradle Mountain Lodge before setting out on the day’s adventure. We follow the traditional start to the overland track, incorporating Crater Lake and Crater falls, then up Marion’s Peak where on a clear day you can see the Walls of Jerusalem plateau. A billy break at Kitchener’s Hut gives a chance to rest and appreciate Cradle Mountain from its base. The mountain is a remarkable sight being made up of high narrow ridge with dolerite cliffs on both sides.
CRADLE MOUNTAIN SUMMIT OPTION (weather permitting): For the more active members of our group can choose an additional optional walk to the summit of Cradle Mountain to take in magnificent views across the Tasmanian Highlands (a 3 hour return climb). For those who attempt this please note this additional walk to the summit involves rock climbing, boulder hopping and rock scrambling 50% of the time up to the mountain and requires good agility and fitness. Lunch is at the top to ensure best appreciation of one of the best views in Tasmania. Please note this option is only available when the weather is suitable – the guide will make the call on the day whether this walk proceeds based on safety.
On our way back to our accommodation we pass the impressive Lesser Mountains of Weindorfers Tower and little horn finally passing the twisted lakes and Lake Hanson. One of the best and iconic walks in Tasmania.
Tonight enjoy a superb dinner featuring local produce and Tasmanian wine in the delightful restaurant at Cradle Mountain Hotel.
Note: When there are 8 or more passengers on tour, we have two guides offering a choice of two walking options – our main walk and the Cradle Mountain Summit option. Tours with 7 or fewer people will only have 1 guide and therefore the whole group will need to select the same option. Please feel free to check with our office when booking.
Walk 5.6km circuit. Total Climbing 160m
TRANSFER TIMES: Morning: 15 minute transfer from our accommodation to the start of the trail.
Afternoon: 15 minute transfer time from trail back to Cradle Mountain Lodge.
This morning after a delicious hot breakfast, we head out or the last of our walks to stunning Dove Canyon. This appealing walk meanders through a wide variety of vegetation, including button grass plains, open forest, myrtle rainforest and the deep valley of the canyon. During this walk, you will visit the rugged gorges and lovely waterfalls that have been eroded by Pencil Pine Creek and Dove River.
The remainder of the afternoon is yours at leisure to rest up for a big walk tomorrow. (Optional helicopter flight available this afternoon at an additional cost – this is weather dependent so if you would like this – please ask your guide to book this in on the day 1). Tonight enjoy dinner with the group in the restaurant savouring wonderful Tassie fare with wines.
Walk: 13.2km walk
TRANSFER TIMES: Morning: 1.5 hour transfer from our accommodation to the start of the trail.
Afternoon: 1 hour and 45 minute transfer from end of trail to the Grand Chancellor Launceston.
This morning we enjoy an early breakfast before we depart the lodge and head east. Today will be a challenging but rewarding experience as we spend the day exploring the magnificent Walls of Jerusalem National Park which is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. This National Park is so remote it is only accessible by foot. With incredible mountain scenery and pristine wilderness, the Central Plateau of Tasmania contains more than a thousand lakes, as well as valleys of pockets of pencil pines surrounded by walls of cliffs and peaks towering above. On today’s walk, we hike towards Herod’s Gate on Lake Salome passing a 1900 Possum Trappers Hut. We’ll discover a landscape of snow gums, pencil pines, alpine ferns and a stunning mountain tarn known such as the Solomons Jewels. From here we walk to Herod’s Gate overlooking Lake Salome to see dramatic views of King David’s Peak before returning. Afterwards, our walk, relax and enjoy the return journey back to Launceston. The end of a wonderful journey.
ARRIVAL TIME: We arrive in to Launceston at approximately 7.30pm depending on the pace of the group. We suggest overnighting in Launceston.
Tour Availability
We run regularly scheduled tours from October to the end of April every year. Dates are listed below however availability changes by the hour – to see real-time availability click on the monthly calendar at the bottom of the page and select the month you require. We will also consider opening up a new departure date if we have enough demand. Email us at walks@lifesanadventure.com.au
SPECIALS
Check below to see if your preferred departure has a Spot Specials savings of $150 per person. Conditions apply see pricing page.
| Date | Availability | Special Offer |
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| 7 Dec 2020 | Available | Super Earlybirds Out Now. |
| 8 Jan 2021 | Available | Super Earlybirds Out Now |
| 26 Mar 2021 | Available | Super Earlybirds Out Now. Staying in Spa Chalets higher price. |
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PRIVATE GROUPS:
Date of your choice is available for groups of 10 -12 people. Subject to availability. Free Group T’shirts also available – see details.
Please contact us for more details on (02) 9975 4553 or email: walks@lifesanadventure.com.au
Tour Prices
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DEPARTURES TOUR STAYING AT CRADLE MOUNTAIN LODGE SHOULDER: PEAK SEASON: _______________________ TOUR STAYING AT DISCOVERY PARK COTTAGE SHOULDER: PEAK SEASON: *See conditions on our special book now and pay later offer below. |
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DEPARTURES TOUR STAYING AT CRADLE MOUNTAIN LODGE SHOULDER: PEAK SEASON: ________________________ TOUR STAYING AT CRADLE DISCOVERY COTTAGE SHOULDER: PEAK SEASON: *See conditions on our special book now and pay later offer below. Emails us for your special code. |
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PRIVATE GROUPS DEPARTURES: TOUR STAYING AT CRADLE MOUNTAIN LODGE SHOULDER: PEAK SEASON: ________________________ TOUR STAYING AT DISCOVERY PARK COTTAGE SHOULDER: 1 to 30 October and 1 to 30 April. PEAK SEASON: _______________________________ Additional Past Passenger discount not available for groups. *See conditions on our special book now and pay later offer below. Shoulder season: 1 to 30 October and 1 to 30 April. |
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The following extras can be purchased with your tour: _________________________________ PRE-TOUR NIGHT PACKAGE for 2 persons _________________________ SOLO TRAVELLERS
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Book Now Pay Later Offer +COVID Booking Guarantee
For terms and conditions on our special COVID-19 Book Now and Pay Later offer click here.
Single Supplements
- Singles wanting to share please see notes on accommodation page about bed configurations in the cabins.
- Singles wanting their own room. Add $438. Subject to availability at time of booking.
Discount Information:
PAST PASSENGER DISCOUNT: Those who have travelled with Life’s An Adventure previously, receive a past passenger discount of $100. In order to receive this discount please email us for your special “promo code” to use when booking. In your email, you should outline what Life’s An Adventure tour you have done with us in the past so we can cross-check.
EARLYBIRD & SPOT SPECIAL CANCELLATIONS: Refunds and cancellations are not permitted for Earlybird Deals or Spot Specials, however, transfers to another date are permitted 8 weeks or more prior to departure. We advise taking out travel insurance, in case unexpected circumstances prior to the trip, prevent you from joining this tour. Early bird or Spot Special discounts cannot be used in conjunction with another offer. To receive these special discounts, full payment must be made at the time of initial booking.
Travel Insurance
We advise taking our Travel Insurance to cover items such as cancellation of tour due to minimum numbers not met, or adverse weather conditions, injury, evacuation, delayed flights, illness, etc. We have organised through NiB Insurance for you to purchase travel insurance directly with them – please click here for details.
Additional Information
- Prices are per person in Australian dollars and include GST.
- A deposit of $300 per person is required to secure your booking. (unless taking advantage of Earlybird or Spot Specials in which full payment is required at time of booking).
- Note: If you are booking within 90 days of your departure date – we will require full payment at the time of booking
- Prices are based on twin share of rooms. If you are travelling solo you may be required to share with someone of the same gender. If this is not suitable you can request to pay a single supplement, however, limited single rooms are available per trip so are on a request basis.
- Payments must be made online via our NAB (National Australia Bank) secure payment page via credit card (Visa or Mastercard) or over the phone.
- NO Credit Card fee applies.
- We advise taking our Travel Insurance to cover items such as cancellation of tour due to minimum numbers not met, or adverse weather conditions, injury, evacuation, delayed flights, illness, etc.
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