Katherine Getting there & around

Getting there & around

Greyhound (13 14 99; www.greyhound.com.au) buses travelling between Darwin and Alice Springs, Queensland or WA stop at Katherine’s Transit Centre (8971 9999; Katherine Tce). Sample trips from Katherine include Alice Springs ($225, 15 hours), Darwin ($76, four hours) and Kununurra ($115, five hours).

Car-rental outfits include Thrifty (8972 3183; Transit Centre, 6 Katherine Tce), Hertz (8971 1111; cnr Katherine & O’Shea Tces) and Europcar (8971 2777; Knotts Crossing Resort, cnr Giles & Cameron Sts).

For taxis, call Katherine Taxis (8972 1777).

The Ghan train travels between Adelaide and Darwin, stopping at Katherine. The train station is off the Victoria Hwy, 9km southwest of town. Travel North (8971 9999), based at the Transit Centre, runs shuttles between the station and town.

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