Carolina Wilga has flown back home to Germany in business class, spotted being pushed in a wheelchair to a hospital.

German backpacker Carolina Wilga - whose disappearance sparked an enormous search-and-rescue operation in Western Australia - has returned home after her outback ordeal.

She spent 12 days drinking from puddles, sleeping in caves, and fending off biting insects and freezing nights.

Rescued backpacker Carolina Wilga has bid farewell to Perth, with the German Consulate believing she has flown back to ...

WA Police have lifted the lid on new technology which played a vital role in helping with the search effort for missing ...

A lone tracker continues his search for Barry Podmore, missing in the same reserve where backpacker Carolina Wilga was found ...

Carolina Wilga was found alive in Australia's remote Outback 12 days after she went missing and a day after her abandoned van ...

"Miracle is a word that gets bandied about a lot, but to survive 12 days and cross-country - she went cross country to come ...

Despite "dark moments", Carolina Wilga, the German backpacker who survived 12 days lost in the Australian outback says she ...

Carolina Wilga, a German backpacker went missing for nearly two weeks during a trip to explore Western Australia. Here's her ...

Carolina Wilga, 26, was miraculously found by a member of the public near Karroun Hill Nature Reserve, about 310km north-east ...

A German backpacker who miraculously survived 12 days in remote Western Australian bushland has been released from hospital.