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Our favourite sailing trips and cruises in Australasia

For the ultimate luxury sailing trip in Australasia, Lightfoot Travel has partnered with the multi award-winning True North Luxury Adventure Cruises to bring you a brilliantly unique way of exploring the wild frontiers of Western Australia.

True North operates various cruises in the region. Aboard its modern cruise vessels you can discover the primordial Kimberly Coast and its thundering waterfalls, navigate mighty rivers, scuba dive in protected coral reefs, explore soul-stirring Outback billabongs and ancient Aboriginal caves, or even sail to the neighbouring tribal Pacific island of Papua New Guinea and its outlying archipelago.

True North cruise ships are equipped with all you need for a luxury adventure including fishing and diving gear - and impressively - a helicopter that can take you to remote locations to provide you with sensational bird’s eye views of the region.

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