Travel ideas for Australia – trip tips and recommendations from my experiences travelling in Australia. This southern hemisphere continent country has beautiful landscapes, attractive cities, rich cultural traditions and a laidback lifestyle. Here you will find exciting travel ideas for travelling in Australia so start planning your trip now and experience everything that Australia has to offer travellers.
Devils@Cradle is the Tasmanian Devil sanctuary at Cradle Mountain – one of a series across Tasmania working hard to save this incredible beastie from annihilation via Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD). I signed up for the night feeding session at 5.30pm (costs $27.50) and went along for a look expecting […]
This was my third visit to Tasmania and this time the target destination was the evocatively named “Western Wilderness”. Following the Lyell Highway that leads from Derwent Bridge and Lake St Clair up and around the National Park, the first stop was the Franklin Nature Walk. It’s a mere 25 […]
There’s no doubt it has been a great year for travel in my world, and it has seemed a very long year – the Egypt trip in January 2011 seems an age away. I’ve also moved base from London to Melbourne in Australia for awhile so it has been a […]
The Great Ocean Road is certainly an iconic Australian road trip and therefore high on my list of things to do while in Melbourne. We spend a couple of days and nights exploring the region and found there is a lot to see. The first point to note is that […]
The 12 Apostles was for me the highlight of my recent tour of Australia’s famous Great Ocean Road, which winds along the coast of Victoria and is very accessible from Melbourne. During the afternoon at the 12 Apostles, a huge, roiling smoke cloud from a Parks Victoria planned burn-off gave […]
If you’re not Australian you may not have heard of Norman Lindsay but you may have seen the 1994 film Sirens with Sam Neill, Portia di Rossi and Elle Macpherson? As Mr Wandering Kiwi said: “Oh yeah the film with the naked women.” Does that jog your memory? For people […]
The Anangu traditional owners of Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) in Australia’s magnificent Red Centre hold this unique rock formation sacred and prefer that people don’t climb it. Along with the obvious environmental damage that comes from climbing Uluru, this is an obvious reason to walk around Uluru rather than […]
The east coast of Tasmania is one of Australia’s most beautiful and here are few ideas on things to see and do (and eat and drink) while touring in Tasmania: When we arrived on Tasmania’s east coast (driving from Hobart), we made a bee-line for the famous Wineglass Bay. After all it […]