{"id":38364,"date":"2006-03-30T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australiantraveller.com\/kakadu-the-australian-traveller-guide\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:43:27","slug":"kakadu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.australiantraveller.com\/nt\/kakadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakadu National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kakadu is Australia\u2019s largest national park, but describing Kakadu as a park does not do it justice. This vast swathe of land encompasses more than 20,000 square kilometres of World Heritage-listed wilderness.<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s a jaw-dropping landscape of gorges decorated with ancient rock art, waterfalls that thunder over the edge of the escarpment and floodplains that stretch from horizon to horizon.<\/p>\n\n<p>The countryside changes with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiantraveller.com\/nt\/kakadu\/kakadu-faqs-how-where-the-wet-season-conundrum\/\">seasons<\/a> and what you see depends on when you go. During the monsoon or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiantraveller.com\/nt\/kakadu\/kakadu-in-the-wet-season\/\">wet season<\/a> (December through to March or April), the wetlands swell with water and millions of migratory birds, including jabirus and dancing brolgas swoop across the floodplains. In the drier months, you can swim in plunge pools above waterfalls and explore the park by vehicle and on hiking trails.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you\u2019re planning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiantraveller.com\/nt\/kakadu\/how-to-the-kakadu-self-drive-road-trip\/\">road trip to Kakadu<\/a>, check out our tips on what roads to drive when and follow one of our dream road-trip itineraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakadu is Australia\u2019s largest national park, but describing Kakadu as a park does not do it justice. This vast swathe of land encompasses more than 20,000 square kilometres of World Heritage-listed wilderness. 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