Travel Stories

• sports

• activities

4 min read • Nov 6, 2019

Australia may be the world’s flattest continent, but it is packed with enough vertical topography to occupy any rock climber for many lifetimes.

• wildlife and nature

• activities

5 min read • Sep 24, 2019

Hook your trips around what your kids are learning at school and throw in some new activities and you'll have some of the most enthusiastic traveling…

5 min read • Jan 9, 2019

Drones have opened up a whole world of textures, compositions and jaw-dropping new perspectives on travel photography. And Australia, with its unique…

• beaches

• activities

5 min read • Dec 21, 2018

A remote speckle of land at the bottom of the earth, Bruny Island is famed for its natural beauty, boasting a bush-meets-sea terrain to­ fulfil all types…

• art

• art and culture

6 min read • Mar 20, 2018

With its rugged good looks and effortless quirks, Australia was always destined for the screen. The country's pristine beaches, scorching deserts and…

• food

• food and drink

5 min read • Nov 15, 2016

Aussies love to have a drink, and with the rise of the country's craft spirits scene, who can blame them? Made in small batches by independently owned…

• wildlife and nature

• activities

11 min read • May 23, 2016

Discover an Australian island where convicts were sent to be forgotten, huge cliffs mark the last frontier before Antarctica, and ancient forests wriggle…

• family travel

• connections

5 min read • Apr 15, 2016

When the Three Capes Track opened two days before Christmas 2015, it immediately set a new benchmark for Australian bushwalks, creating a hike that's both…

• festivals and events

• art and culture

4 min read • Apr 7, 2016

There’s always a festival somewhere in a country as big and diverse as Australia, but it’s in summer, roughly from November to March, that things really…

• food

• food and drink

5 min read • Nov 7, 2014

Listen up, cheese lovers – we’ll let you in on one of Australia’s best-kept secrets: the great land down under produces some truly magnificent cheeses,…

• road trips

• destination practicalities

6 min read • Oct 16, 2014

Tasmania’s northwest is the island’s wild soul, home to abundant wildlife and wilderness, and the canvas for quiet back roads that take you to the most…

• art

• art and culture

5 min read • Oct 2, 2014

The stellar rise of Tasmania comes as no surprise to ex-resident and Lonely Planet author, Charles Rawlings-Way. Here he tells shares his top tips for…

• art

• art and culture

5 min read • Sep 22, 2014

The naughty weekend away in Hobart has become de rigeur for mainland Australians and with 48 hours to play with you’ll get a true taste of this photogenic…

• food

• food and drink

5 min read • Sep 5, 2014

Tasmania doesn’t look very big on the map – an inverted leafy triangle just a few hundred kilometers tall and not much wider across the top. But…

• beaches

• activities

5 min read • Aug 15, 2014

Tasmania might seem like the ends of the earth, but it’s really the beginning of your adventure. The island state could not have been better designed for…

• food

• food and drink

6 min read • Mar 20, 2014

Australians spend more than AU$51 billion on domestic travel every year and the latest stats from Tourism Australia suggest Aussies are trading long…

• food

• food and drink

5 min read • Jan 29, 2013

Tasmania is still Australia, but beguilingly and bewitchingly it’s just that little bit different. It’s compact enough to ‘do’ in a week and layered…

• food

• food and drink

3 min read • Oct 6, 2012

There’s much more to the self-styled Apple Isle than, well, apples. Australia’s southernmost state, the island of Tasmania, is a foodie’s paradise and a…