At 2 billion years old, the ancient Kimberley carries a wisdom and intensity found nowhere else on earth. The geographic significance and beauty of the region – and its sheer expansiveness, encompassing 420,000 square kilometres can only be fully understood from the air, when you zoom out to see its tectonic fabric, craggy canyons, ochre-red cliffs and snaking green, life-sustaining waterways unfurl beneath you. Below, dinosaurs once roamed, their footprints preserved in red rock. Up here, an air-bound perspective is luxurious, a rare gift to observe something so many may never experience from yet another angle and it deepens your on-ground exploration of Western Australia’s rugged north-western corner. On Outback Spirit’s 13-day all-inclusive Jewels of the Kimberley tour, the colours, shapes and splendour come into high-definition focus during three scenic flights. You witness the Kimberley from all directions, understanding its primordial waters both by cooling off in them and careening over them while peering out a porthole window. The world’s oldest rock formations appear in new light, vivid shades of rust and burnt umber singing boldly against cerulean seas. The vastness is unending, all-encompassing; from above, the landscape blooms in dimensionality and distance. In this spectacular expanse, time is measured in the carved valley and prehistoric predators, in days instead of kilometres, in how many goosebumps prickle your skin from interactions with the extraordinary. Silence hangs in the ether, the magnitude of the moment distilled into breathtaking, noiseless awe.