Luxury holidays in Adelaide Hills
The patchwork valleys and leafy lanes of Adelaide Hills have more than their fair share of lush gardens, abundant wildlife and charming towns. Hikers and bikers will find the hills agreeable and stop-for-a-photo worthy, too. Wildlife-filled trails, waterfall tracks and earth-to-table dining awaits. This might all sound particularly wholesome (and it is), but there are also four world-class wine regions nearby, including South Australia’s famed high-altitude vineyards, so there are plenty of cool-climate wines to taste between koala sightings.
When to go
Temperatures in Adelaide Hills are typically between five and seven degrees cooler than down in the plains. In fact, summer here (December to February) is beautifully sunny, but typically cooler than anywhere else in South Australia – air is lung-filling and crisp in comparison to the desert-hot temperatures closer to the coast.