AOC Australian Opal Tour 2025
26 September – 4 October 2025
This unforgettable tour is designed for those with a thirst for firsthand knowledge about Australian opal, providing a unique opportunity to experience the opal and major opal fields of Australia. See black opal in New South Wales, boulder opal in Queensland, and crystal and light opal in South Australia, with the people who know it best.
The AOC’s 2024 Australian Opal Tour was a stunning success, receiving rave reviews from tour participants from Australia, the United Kingdom and the US. The AOC Australian Opal Tour 2025 promises to be exceptional!
Enjoy outback landscapes and opal mining communities and feast your eyes on incredible opal gemstones and fossils. Meet opal miners, cutters, gemmologists and palaeontologists.
This special tour hosted by the Australian Opal Centre (AOC) will depart from Sydney and includes charter aircraft, ground tours, meals and accommodation.
Stage 1 of the incredible new Australian Opal Centre facility is currently under construction, destined to become a world hub for opal knowledge, training, science, art and culture. It will celebrate Australia’s National Gemstone and be filled with astonishing treasures from the earth and the stories of the people who found them. The new AOC is due to open in mid 2025 and AOC Australian Opal Tour participants will enjoy a VIP tour of this architecturally significant, partly subterranean facility.
This epic tour is only possible by having a sufficient participants to charter the aircraft needed to cover the vast distances between our outback opal fields. Places are limited and commitments must be made as soon as possible to secure the aircraft. Price, registration form and additional information is available on enquiry.
To register an expression of interest, please email register@australianopalcentre.com.
Places are strictly limited.
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Thursday 25 September Evening meet and greet in Sydney NSW
Friday 26 September Fly Sydney to Lightning Ridge NSW
Saturday 27 September Lightning Ridge and surrounding opal fields
Sunday 28 September Lightning Ridge and surrounding opal fields
Monday 29 September Fly Lightning Ridge to Winton Qld
Tuesday 30 September Winton opal fields
Wednesday 1 October Fly Winton to Coober Pedy SA
Thursday 2 October Coober Pedy opal fields
Friday 3 October Fly Coober Pedy to White Cliffs NSW; visit the opal fields
Saturday 4 October Fly White Cliffs to Sydney NSW
Every endeavour will be made to adhere to the proposed timetable. If circumstances outside our control, such as weather, cause any activities to change, there will be fun alternatives.
Email register@australianopalcentre.com to receive more information as tour details are finalised. Places are strictly limited and participants will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.