Australia Travel Guide

There are places on this planet that are beautiful beyond description. Places undeniably worth crossing the globe to experience first hand.

But many Australians would be surprised to learn just how many of them are right here in Australia.

Use this Australia Holiday guide to explore an Australia you barely knew existed - and from there take yourself to see it for real.

Our own extraordinary back yard is too often neglected for holidays. Discover the icons that the rest of the world travels tens of thousands of kilometres to see; from the incomparable Uluru, to the Great Barrier Reef, to Tasmania's rugged wilderness and of course the sparkling Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Opera House.

In fact, each of our big cities has unique attractions and features that will surprise and delight you – things that change constantly, so if it’s been a while since you visited another Australian city, it’s probably time you looked again. Discover art, history, restaurants and life in general in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Darwin and Hobart. All unique, many faceted and unforgettable in their own way - for everything from climate to coffee.

If getting off the beaten track is more your thing then you’ll find few tracks less beaten than on the vast Australian continent. The outback would take a lifetime to explore. Ancient forests are scattered right across the country, from the tropical rainforest of North Queensland to the temperate world heritage listed forests of Tasmania and the Kauri giants of South West Australia. There are mighty rivers like the Murray that cross entire states and mountain streams that wind through forests visited only a handful of times each year.

Australians love a beach holiday and our beaches are staggering in number and beauty. Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, Byron Bay in Northern New South Wales, the famous breaks of Bells Beach in Victoria and wonderful white sands of Western Australia's Margaret River. These are just a few of the jewels among thousands of lesser known beaches around the country.

This is a country so richly varied that you can be skiing in powder in the Snowy Mountains one day and watching crocodiles sun themselves on the banks of a wild river in the wet tropics the next. Australia - get out there and discover it. Explore our Australia Holiday Guide and give yourself a better holiday.