Sydney accommodation

Sydney offers every category of accommodation – from backpacker hostels to international standard deluxe hotels (A$300-plus per night).Sydney’s large and diverse accommodation industry caters for all budgets. At the upper end there’s the luxurious Park Hyatt Sydney, set right on the water’s edge, and the Westin Sydney, occupying the classic old post office building in [...]

Brisbane is Australia’s sub-tropical gem

With its languid subtropical air, bustling city centre, and riverside charm, Brisbane is one of the worlds most livable cities. Australia’s third largest city, with 1.5 million inhabitants, is the capital of the northern state of Queensland. The CBD has a collection of tall office towers and the CBD shopping precinct centres around the Queen [...]

Northern Territory – The Top End

Swaying palms, monsoon vine forests, dancing birds, crocodiles in the waterways, ancient cultures, ecologically significant areas – it sounds so exotic, it’s hard to believe we’re talking about Australia – but we are. The Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory has all of this and more. Environment One of the best things about exploring this [...]

Perth – a laid-back city with lots to see

Perth, Western Australia’s capital city, fronting the meandering Swan River, is the state’s economic and cultural base. Perth’s people are easygoing and the city, with its inner city parks, natural ambience and feel. The Swan River offers a range of water sports, including sailing, sailboarding and parasailing, and the 50 km of riverside pathways allow [...]

Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the second most visited Sydney attraction – after the Sydney Opera House. This is a bridge located on the Sydney Harbour, connecting the Central Business District (Sydney CBD) on the coast with the residential north sydney suburbs. The bridge offers a beautiful panoramic view of Sydney. The Bridge was built [...]

The Simpson Desert

The word desert usually conjures up images of drifting sand dunes, not much vegetation or wildlife, the occasional oasis and camel safaris with cameleers in flowing robes. Well that might be true of the Sahara Desert in Africa, but when it comes to the Simpson Desert in Central Australia, you are in for a big [...]

Nitmiluk National Park – Katherine Gorge

One of the major towns in the Top End, Katherine is just 330km south of Darwin. It is a delightful town on the edge of spectacular wilderness regions and a part of the Top End not to be missed.Katherine is a bustling community of 10,000 people which services an area the size of the state [...]

Adelaide is a city of culture

From its establishment in 1836, Adelaide’s development has been based on the state of South Australia’s agriculture, mining and manufacturing. The city today retains much of its colonial architecture and has an air of solidity with its grid-like street plan making it an easy city to get around. Set on the edge of a desert [...]

Sydney Opera House

In the late 50′s, Danish architect Joern Utzon won the prestigious Pritzker Prize (the equivalent of the Nobel in the architecture category) by the unique design of this building: the Sydney Opera House. The jury described it as “one of the most symbolic buildings of the twentieth century, a masterpiece, an image of great beauty… [...]

Sydney – Australia’s vibrant harbourside destination

Cosmopolitan, diverse, energetic and easygoing, Sydney has colonial heritage, dazzling modern buildings and a free-wheeling lifestyle. Its iconic, glorious sheltered harbour and its sunny, subtropical climate help make it a major tourist destination. It is clean, unpolluted and relatively safe, and its not surprising that it is most often voted as one of the world’s [...]

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