Western Australia Travel Stories

Jan 9, 2019 • 5 min read

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

Dec 8, 2017 • 4 min read

A cluster of urban villages surrounds the heart of Perth city. Each has its own distinctive personality, whether hipster, grungy, multicultural or trendy,…

Sep 21, 2017 • 6 min read

Rottnest Island or Wadjemup (its Aboriginal name) has long been a playground for Perth’s outdoorsy population, but thanks to a very cute marsupial, the…

Jul 10, 2017 • 4 min read

Lonely Planet Local Fleur Bainger stopped in Perth on the way to Melbourne, and never left. Since that time in 2006, she keeps finding reasons to stay…

Dec 13, 2016 • 5 min read

Perth’s dining scene has reinvented itself over the past few years, with small bars championing petite eats, kitchens opening later, and standards…

Nov 15, 2016 • 5 min read

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…

Apr 26, 2016 • 4 min read

Following part of an Aboriginal songline (essentially a storyline, both oral history and map) the Lurujarri Heritage Trail is a 90km-walk along the…

Apr 7, 2016 • 4 min read

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…

Oct 19, 2015 • 6 min read

The port city of Fremantle, on Australia’s west coast, is like an old friend you haven’t seen for years. Time may have passed but the connection is felt…

Aug 18, 2015 • 5 min read

Hoppy and assertive IPAs and subtle and zesty Belgian-style farmhouse ales are now all the rage in craft beer bars around the world, but in Western…

Jun 9, 2015 • 6 min read

Quirky, multicultural and remote – Broome lives up to its reputation. Thanks to its indigenous heritage and extraordinary past as a cyclone-prone pearling…

May 21, 2015 • 4 min read

Australia’s Top End offers a unique opportunity to discover, explore and interact with Australian Indigenous culture. The Top End encompasses a massive…

Apr 7, 2015 • 5 min read

In Australia's Wild West, even a cursory glance from your car window reveals an incredible richness of wildlife. Beyond well-known fauna like bottlenose…

Oct 21, 2014 • 5 min read

With a coastline stretching over 20,000km, roughly a third comprising islands, it’s no surprise that WA is Australia’s aquatic adventure capital. Huge,…

Oct 21, 2014 • 4 min read

Western Australia is a land of big distances, big temperatures and big horizons. The sky seems bigger, cars and trucks are bigger; prices, rents, dreams,…

Oct 21, 2014 • 4 min read

No placename in Australia is more evocative than the Kimberley. Immense and sparsely populated, most Australians see the Kimberley as a wild, untamed…

Oct 16, 2014 • 8 min read

Australia’s coast was just made for road tripping. Thousands of kilometres of sun, sand and surf, dotted with lazy beach towns, quirky accommodation, big…

Sep 12, 2014 • 6 min read

The best way to get a real taste of Australia’s traditional customs and landscapes is to accompany a guide on a bush food and bush medicine tour around…

Sep 8, 2014 • 7 min read

One of the best ways to see Australia – the east coast, the west coast, or the whole country – is on a self-drive road trip in your own campervan. Whether…

Aug 26, 2013 • 8 min read

Whether you're saying g'day to the whale sharks on Ningaloo Reef, watching humpback whales breach from a live-aboard catamaran, or throwing yourself down…

May 4, 2012 • 3 min read

Many of Australia’s mammals share a somewhat inconvenient trait for wildlife watchers - they’re nocturnal. So three cheers for the endangered numbat: it’s…

Nov 11, 2009 • 2 min read

On a nautical chart, the thousand or so islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago, Western Australia, look shredded from the continent and strewn across the…