Destinations

Topical North Queensland is blessed with an abundance of spectacular waterfalls – some like Millaa Millaa Falls are well known. Others, like Windin Falls are becoming famous after being featured on Instagram. Here’s our guide to some of the best waterfalls near Cairns on the Atherton Tablelands!

Vulnerable as I am, hiking across the tundra on the shores of Canada’s Hudson Bay, I feel like polar bear bait. Unlike…

Seeing a full moon rising is a pretty special way to connect with nature in all its kick-butt glory. In Cairns Tropical…

I’m a big fan of scenic drives and road trips, especially road trips from Cairns. There’s something a little bit special about…

Cruising Indonesia beyond Bali on a traditional phinisi sailing ship we see Komodo Dragons, swim with manta rays at Manta Alley and…

Purpose-built for the discerning traveller, Hobart’s newest boutique hotel was inspired by its closest southern continent, Antartica. Salamanca Wharf Hotel opened its…

Fiji’s Lau Island Group is a remote archipelago of islands strung like a bejewelled necklace of treasures east of the International Date Line in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.

Located on the northeast coast of the island of Moorea, midway between fabulous Cook’s Bay and Vairare Pier (ferry  from Papeete), Moorea…

Fulaga Island (also spelt Vulaga) is a small island within a lagoon in the Lau Group of Islands, Fiji. At the southern…

With the ink barely dry on my marriage licence I left my husband forever. Not something I’m proud of, I didn’t have…

Guest post by Clive Harper Awesome isn’t just a word. In recent times, Claudette, my wife and travelling mate, and I, have…

Popping the champagne cork on another fine year in the travel writing game, sometimes I need to check my diary to recall…

  “I’ve been driving all night my hands are wet at the wheel,” are the lines from that classic song Radar Love…

Imbued with a sensory culture that has tendrils reaching far into Japan’s Heian period over 800 years ago, Kyoto offers an enticing…

Some of the world’s most beautiful cities are recognisable by their bridges.  The scarlet struts of the Golden Gate Bridge are synonymous…

At the age of 38 and suddenly single after a 22-year relationship, Australian journalist and travel writer Christine Retschlag spent the next…

Feeling a little bit decadently feisty? Want to add some drama to your next bottle of bubbles? Mmm me too. Why not…

It takes less than an hour after landing at Sydney Airport before I’m dispensing with travel grime in a glass-enclosed winter sun…

    There’s something immensely pleasurable about the soothing rhythm of long distance train travel. Despite the cosy quarters and extended confinement, I’m…

Lindblad Expeditions, the U.S.-based small ship expedition company which partners with the National Geographic Society for expedition cruising, announced last month that…

“I could have gone to Mauritius,” my friend lamented, reluctantly loading up the wagon for the family’s first ever camping holiday.  I…

I confess that I wasn’t thrilled at receiving an invitation to attend Bali’s Nusa Dua Theatre for a performance of devdan –…

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve visited Bali. Visiting for the first time as a teenager accompanied by my…