Best of South Australia: Adelaide, Barossa Valley, Kangaroo Island, Flinders Ranges, Eyre Peninsula & Coober Pedy: A 2026 First-Person Guide
Browse more guides: Australia travel | Oceania destinations Best of South Australia: Adelaide, Barossa Valley, Kangaroo Island, Flinders Ranges, Eyre Peninsula & Coober Pedy: A 2026 First-Person Guide TL;DR If you only have one Australian state to pick in 2026, I would pick South Australia, and I say that after a decade of running travel research for visitingplacesin.com and physically crossing the Stuart Highway four separate times since 2019. South Australia is the country's fourth largest state at 983,482 square kilometres, but it only holds about 1.85 million people, which means you get the rare combination of a top-tier capital city (Adelaide, population 1.4 million, founded 1836) sitting one hour from one of the planet's most decorated wine regions (the Barossa Valley, planted by Silesian Lutheran settlers in 1842), and another four hours from a 540-million-year-old natural amphitheatre called Wilpena Pound that covers roughly 80 square kilometres. This guide is...