Litchfield National Park Waterfalls Walk
Drive 90 minutes from Darwin to Litchfield National Park for the Territory's best waterfall swimming — four major falls cascade into clear rock pools surrounded by sandstone escarpment and monsoon rainforest.
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Wangi Falls
Wangi Falls is Litchfield's most spectacular — a twin waterfall plunging into a deep, clear swimming pool enclosed by sandstone walls covered in monsoon rainforest, accessible by a short walk from the car park.
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Florence Falls
Florence Falls drops 15 metres into the best swimming hole in Litchfield — the twin falls and the pool beneath are reached by a 135-step descent into the gorge, and the water is cool even in the late dry season heat.
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Buley Rockhole
Buley Rockhole is a series of natural spa pools linked by small waterfalls — the rock pools are perfect for wallowing in the shade of monsoon rainforest while the Territory heat rises above the gorge.
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Tolmer Falls Lookout
Tolmer Falls is closed to swimming to protect a ghost bat colony that roosts in the caves behind the falls — the lookout gives a view of the falls from above, and the cave system is one of the largest ghost bat roosts in the Territory.
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Magnetic Termite Mounds
Litchfield's magnetic termite mounds are oriented precisely north-south — the thin profile minimises heat absorption in the intense Top End sun, and the phenomenon was not understood until recently when entomologists studied the orientation mechanism.
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Tabletop Range View
The Tabletop Range that forms the backbone of Litchfield is a sandstone plateau — the flat-topped escarpment, visible from the approach road, is a distinctive landscape element of the Top End that contrasts with the flat floodplains below.