Australia is the unexpected: a place where the world’s oldest cultures share vast ochre plains, stylish laneways and unimaginably blue waters with successive waves of new arrivals from across the globe.
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Explore the flora and fauna of Australia’s myriad collection of national parks, swim the fragile yet spectacular Great Barrier Reef, roam the streets of eclectic Sydney and trendsetting Melbourne; all with your trusted travel companion.
Lonely Planet writer Rachael Hocking describes why she loves Australia. "When I walk across this magnificent land, I speak to my forebears: great Warlpiri warriors, and the ancestors of each tribe that call this country home. I sing to the spirits who inhabit speckled night skies above the Tanami Desert: they look down from the stars and see circles, lines, dots the veins of our mother. I've shared turtle eggs with Meriam on Erub island at the edges of the beautiful Torres Strait, and I've sighted rare rock-wallaby in the heart of the Pilbara alongside Martu aboriginal rangers. I do not own this land, but it is part of me."
Australia Top 10
1. Aboriginal Culture
2. Wildlife
3. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
4. Great Barrier Reef
5. Sydney
6. The Whitsundays
7. Daintree Rainforest
8. Melbourne
9. Margaret River & Cape Naturaliste
10. Mona
