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Literally “in the middle of nowhere” the Prairie is a true outback hotel. Enjoy a drink in the evening and share stories with the locals and passers by that seem to appear from nowhere! With the eastern walls of the Flinders Ranges to one side and the limitless expanse of the South Australian plains to the other, the Prairie provides a real sense of the sheer size and emptiness of the Australian continent.
                                                   
At the Hotel each of the 12 rooms has an en suite bathroom and air conditioning. The four Heritage rooms in the old part of the hotel have high ceilings, a queen size bed plus a single and there is a certain amount of historic charm. The new rooms have been cleverly built for insulation and are sunken into the red earth; each of these has 2 queen size beds as well as tea/coffee making facilities and a refrigerator with mini bar.                     

The upper floor of the pub is exclusively for houseguests and is a quiet place to eat or relax. Downstairs, the front bar is that of a genuine outback hotel, and remains a watering hole for the locals of Parachilna (population 7) and the surrounding countryside. A traditional breakfast served is served in the dining room. The lunch and dinner menus provide innovative and excellent “feral” cuisine - camel sausages, wallaby skewers, goat chops and kangaroo fillets.                              Book Now!!

Apart from getting to know the locals and cooling off in the pool The Flinders Ranges National Park provides some of the finest outback scenery and harbors an immense variety of wildlife within its gorges and valleys. There are 4WD trips to Parachilna and Brachina Gorges, Lake Torrens and over the Fargher’s property Nilpena Station. Further a field; air safaris can take you over the scenic Flinders Ranges to Lake Eyre, Innamincka with perhaps a stop at Anna Creek (largest property in Australia) for morning tea.                                   

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Why Prairie Hotel?

• For specialist trips in the Flinders a local conservationist guide can be arranged.
   

• Enjoy a picnic lunch in the shade of river red gums beside a dry creek bed, this is a uniquely Australian scene and the screech of cockatoos and galahs are just the noisier end of the hugely diverse bird life that inhabits this area.                          
   

• In the evening, spending a quiet hour beside a rock pool in one of the deep red sandstone gorges that typify this country will give you the chance to see one of Australia’s rarest animals, the yellow-footed rock wallaby which comes to drink in the coolness of dusk.

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