This is the adelaide south australia chapter from lonely planet's australia guidebook. Escape the frenzy of australia's east coast with a few days in gracious, relaxed south australia sa. The driest state in the planet's driest inhabited continent, sa beats the heat by celebrating life's finer things landscapes, festivals, food, and wine. Settle in for a cricket match or some australian rules football at the magnificent adelaide oval, then catch some live tunes in this unesco 'city of music' maps swirl and quaff your way through mclaren vale, the most popular wine region in sa transport day trip through adelaide's backyard, with cellar doors, markets and historic towns restaurants accommodation coverage includes adelaide around, hahndorf, stirling area, gumeracha, birdwood lobethal, fleurieu peninsula, mclaren vale, willunga, gulf st vincent beaches, victor harbor, port elliot, goolwa, kangaroo island, penneshaw dudley peninsula, kingscote, north coast road, cygnet river south coast road, flinders chase national park, barossa valley, tanunda, nuriootpa, angaston, clare valley, auburn, mintaro, clare, murray river, murray bridge, mannum, waikerie, loxton, berri, renmark paringa, limestone coast, robe, meningie coorong national park, mount gambier, penola the coonawarra wine region, yorke peninsula, west coast, east coast, south coast innes national park, eyre peninsula, port augusta, port lincoln, coffin bay, streaky bay around, ceduna around, the western australia border around, flinders ranges, southern ranges, quorn, hawker, ikara flinders ranges national park, blinman parachilna, outback south australia, woomera around, coober pedy, when to go, best places to stay.