Broadsheet recently got on the road with 12 guests and one knowledgeable guide for Intrepid Travel’s Highlights of Tasmania trip. Over six days we encountered ancient temperate rainforests, rivers of belittling vastness, snow-dusted peaks, mountains stripped bare by reckless miners, brooding granite-riddled coastlines, misty alpine plateaus, Australia’s deepest lake, Australia’s highest sea cliffs, bucolic dairy-farming valleys and more.

Circumnavigating the island, from Hobart to Strahan, Launceston to Bicheno, is the best way to witness these dramatic contrasts. Here’s how to see (almost) everything the Apple Isle has to offer in just six days.