Adelaide Airport serves South Australia, providing airline service for Nullarbor, Ceduna, Streaky Bay, Port Lincoln, Cowells, Whyalia, Kangaroo Island, Port Augusta, Port Pirie, Burra, Tallem Bend and Bordertown.

At least five companies provide car rental service at Adelaide Airport: Europcar, Avis, Budget, Thrifty, and Hertz.

In 2009, for the second time in four years, the airport was voted Australia’s Capital City Airport of the Year by the Australian Airports Association.

The Airport earned the award for its efforts in wildlife management, such as preventing bird strikes, a notable effort considering the bird strike that forced Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger to land U.S. Airways flight 1549 on New York City’s Hudson River in January 2009.

Cleland Conservation Park is one of Adelaide’s best known attractions. The park was created in 1965 as an area for the preservation and conservation of native flora and fauna. At the park, you can pet kangaroos and hold a koala bear.

The park is located just 20 miles from Adelaide’s city center.

South Australia, with its dry desert climate, is well known for its wineries. For wine tasting, visit wineries in the Barossa Valley.

Check out the Flinders Ranges and the Adelaide Hills for their fantastic scenery, bushwalking, aboriginal rock paintings and wildlife, or stand on the Head of Bight for some whale watching.

Beautiful beaches can be had all around Adelaide, especially on the Fleurieu, Eyre and Yorke peninsulas.

The colony that became Adelaide was founded in 1836 by Colonel William Light. Light designed the city and chose its location along the River Torrens, but it was the colony’s first governor, Captain John Hindmarsh who gave the colony its name in honor of the German-born wife of Great Britain’s King William IV.