If you’re looking for something different to do this summer, then keep in the mind the somewhat silly Parkes Elvis Festival. The Parkes Elvis festival is held in the 2nd week of January every year in the central New South Wales town of Parkes. The date is set to coincide
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In from late May to 10th June 2013, Sydney has turned on the lights for the Vivid Festival. At night the cityscape lights up using the buildings as the canvas. The most popular location is the main ferry harbour of Sydney, Circular Quay. Any visitor to Sydney is likely to
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Travel Australia – The Great Ocean Road By Jamie H The Great Ocean Road in Victoria Australia can be easily accessed via Geelong and officially begins at Torquay and ends in Nelson. The site for the road was first surveyed in 1918 and was constructed between 1919 and 1932 by
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You might believe from what you see in the movies and hear on the news that Australia is a dangerous place full of wild and deadly creatures, reptiles and sharks waiting to eat you on sight, but really, that’s a bit of a beat up. Whilst there are definitely dangerous
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The perfect trip to Queensland – travel tips and articles – Lonely Planet. This article from Lonely Planet has some great ideas if you doing a trip to Queensland, Australia The perfect trip to Queensland From kicking up red dust in an outback cattle muster to floating above the Great
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I wouldn’t normally write about a cafe on this site as it is not entirely in the scope of it’s theme, but I recently visited a cafe in Sydney that made me want to bring it to the attention of travellers to Sydney. Firstly I’ll tell you a little about
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Recently Lonely Planet published a list of what they consider to be the Top 10 Cities with Brilliant Beaches and no surprises that Sydney was one of them. You can check out the full list here, but here is what Lonely Planet had to say about Sydney…. “Definitively Sydney, Bondi
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By Hugh McInnes Waves crashing on smooth sand, palm branches waving in the wind, crocodiles sunning themselves on rocks, kangaroos caring for joeys in their pouches, koala bears perching in trees, surfers and sunbathers making the most of the sunshine and warmth, shoppers schlepping their purchases through the fashion-savvy streets of
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Often when thinking of travelling in Australia, tourists think of the vast open planes of the outback, sometimes they think of the lush tropical rainforests and rivers of Northern Queensland and other times it’s the rugged beauty and grandeur of The Kimberly in Western Australia. In most of these cases
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Perth is the worlds most remote capital city – it’s nearest neighbor is Adelaide (the capital of South Australia) is 2500km away. With a population of around 1.8 million people there are plenty of things provided for in town, but also within a short drive in most directions you can
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Campervan hire in Sydney has never been more popular. With Australia being such a large place, travelers love the idea of being able to go where they like when they like without having to stick to set routes or timetables. Each year there seems to be more camper companies popping
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I just read an article by a website ranting on about how there are 8 campervan hire companies in Perth, all close to transport, train stations, blah,blah. Are you kidding? There are 28 campervan hire companies in Perth! What a joke. Any site that tells you there are less than
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31st October 2012 Today Tourism Holdings Ltd (THL) announced that they have completed the transaction to take over United Campervans and Kea Campervans New Zealand. THL currently operates Maui, Britz and Mighty campervans in Australia and New Zealand, took over Kea Australia in June of this year and also owns
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