Top Local Tips for Katherine

See the gorges. Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge is a misnomer: there are 13 gorges, not just one. The sunset dinner cruise is particularly good: the gorges are spectacular and the guide most informative, but the quality of the meal was completely unexpected in such a remote place -- after all, you are 300 kilometres into a tropical wilderness. The most spectacular short tour, though, is the 13-gorges helicopter flight with the optional upgrade to land on the rim of the tenth gorge. These gorges have been carved into the 2,500 million years old landscape by vast seasonal floods on the Katherine River. Some of the wildlife (e.g. crocodiles) shared the earth for 135 million years with the dinosaurs then outlived them by another 65 million years! New meaning to the word 'ancient'. Overarching all this are the occasional glimpses into the world of the peole who have lived here for up to 60,000 years.