Start from 44 curated places around Alice Springs, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Page 27 Cafe
A tucked-away courtyard cafe off Fan Arcade with the best big-plate breakfast in town — Middle Eastern eggs, smashed avo with bush dukkah, and proper coffee. The locals' brunch that visitors usually walk straight past.
Hanuman Restaurant
The town's special-occasion table — Thai-Indian-Malay fine dining inside the Doubletree Hilton, run by Darwin's Jimmy Shu. White tablecloths, banana-flower salads, and the Hanuman oysters that locals fly the menu in for.
Trails & outdoors
Larapinta Trail Section 1: Telegraph Station to Simpsons Gap
The opening 24km of Australia's iconic 223km Larapinta Trail — undulating ridges, scribbly-gum gullies, and Wallaby Gap as the midway camp. The full section is two days; most do it as a half-day from the Telegraph Station to Wallaby Gap and turn back.
Simpsons Gap Cassia Hill Walk
A short signed ascent (1.5km return) from the Simpsons Gap carpark up Cassia Hill to a 360-degree West MacDonnell viewpoint — the easiest big-landscape payoff in the area, doable in 45 minutes.
Things to do
Alice Springs Desert Park
The town's flagship attraction — habitats, raptor shows, nocturnal house, and Arrernte-guided walks. Half-day minimum, all-ages, and the place every Alice visitor is recommended within 10 minutes of arriving.
Royal Flying Doctor Service Tourist Facility
The historic 1939 base of the world's first aerial medical service — hologram theatre, full aircraft fuselage you sit inside, and exhibits explaining how 7 million sq km of Outback get healthcare. The one museum that explains modern Australia.
Landmarks & sights
Anzac Hill Lookout (Untyeyetwelye)
The town's most-climbed hill, a sacred Arrernte site and WWI memorial rolled into one — the 360-degree panorama takes in the MacDonnell Ranges, the Todd River bed, and the whole grid of Alice below. Drive to the top or walk the short steep path from Wills Terrace.
Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve
The original 1872 telegraph repeater station and the actual spring the town was named for — stone buildings still standing in a gum-tree gully 4km north of town. Self-guided walks, a working blacksmith on weekends, and the Larapinta Trail's official trailhead.