Australia Travel Tips
Australia's biggest attraction is its natural beauty. The landscape varies from endless sunbaked horizons to dense tropical rain forest to chilly southern beaches. Scattered along the coasts, its cities blend a European enthusiasm for art and food with a laid-back love of sport and the outdoors.
Visitors expecting to see an opera in Sydney one night and meet Crocodile Dundee the next will have to rethink their grasp of geography in this huge country. It is this sheer vastness that gives Australia much of its character.
Melbourne Suggested Itineraries
What's your pleasure? Sports? Shopping? Art? Food? Wine? Wildlife? Melbourne ticks all these boxes and more. Straddling the curvy, lazy Yarra River, Melbourne is Australia's second largest city and, ... Continue Reading »
Tasmania National Parks
One of Tasmania’s most enduring drawcards is its pristine beauty and stunning landscapes, protected in some of Australia’s best-loved national parks. Tasmania’s bushwalking, cycling, rafting and ... Continue Reading »
3 Days in Perth: Suggested Itineraries
Perth is a city with the sun turned up to ten. This stunning city on Australia's west coast, its modern central business district highlighted by a glamorous Indian Ocean backdrop, has shucked its ... Continue Reading »
Melbourne Hot Air Balloon Rides
If you're not a morning person, the thought of getting up at 3:45am to jump into a wicker basket and take off into the air might be the stuff of nightmares. But if you steel yourself for the early ... Continue Reading »
White Water Rafting in Queensland
Calling all adrenaline junkies! In the mood for some white water rafting? Conditions are great in North Queensland! Rafting in North Queensland has the added advantages of departures all year ... Continue Reading »
A Guide to Australian Rules Football
One of the best ways to get beneath the skin of a country is through sport, and when you’re talking Australia, and Melbourne in particular, that sport would have to be Australian Rules Football. ... Continue Reading »
Cairns Bungy Jumping
Want to feel like you're in The Matrix? Want to feel invincible? Want to feel like you're able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Sounds like you might be just the kind of person who ... Continue Reading »
Best Thai Restaurant in Sydney
Hands-down, the best Thai restaurant in Sydney (at least city center) is Spice I Am in Surry Hills (90 Wentworth Ave). It's always crowded, and deservedly so. I love the larb (it's seriously spicy ... Continue Reading »
Ningaloo Reef
One of the best experiences ever - swimming with the Majestic Whale Sharks, the largest fish in the Ocean from Exmouth or Coral Bay from late March to early July. It is also a beautiful reef to dive ... Continue Reading »
How to get from the sydney airport to the main city centre
The train station in Sydney airport is right out the front of the airport, for around $13 Australian catch a train into the city centre which should take about 30mins to get to. From there all the ... Continue Reading »
Historic Towns From Launceston
Launceston is surrounded by a ring of historic colonial towns, their sleepy main streets lined with intact Georgian architecture. The pace of life is tranquil in these colonial country towns, and the ... Continue Reading »
If you like the QVB, try the Strand Arcade
The Strand Arcade is sort of like the Queen Victoria Building's half sister. (No, not Feodora, it's a building). Like the better known QVB, the Strand Arcade is a beautifully restored shopping ... Continue Reading »
Ocean Walk from Bondi to Coogee
If you love clifftop walking with beautiful beaches and bays between, you'll love this walk. It kicks off at Bondi Beach near Icebergs (that's the big pool on the south end of the beach). From here ... Continue Reading »
Snorkeling at Manly Beach
It's surprising to find real fish in a beach so close to the city but snorkeling in Manly Beach is actually worth it. Keep your eye out for seahorses, they are a rare site but you can find them ... Continue Reading »
Take a trip to Balmain
You can take one of the Sydney Ferries to Balmain to check out an area of Sydney with lots of interesting old terrace houses. Check out the restaurants and cafes and do a bit of shopping Continue Reading »
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