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Get bowled over by Australia with airfares starting at just Rs. 40,000*

You’ve seen videos of people on the sun-kissed beaches of Australia. You have heard your friends talk about their trip to the Great Barrier Reef or how they explored Melbourne. With so many things to offer, Australia is bound to be on top your travel bucket list. Well, it’s time to act on it because leading airlines are offering exclusive prices to fly to Australia. Starting from Rs. 40,000*, the fares are perfect for someone who likes to book their travel in advance. But hurry up, because the sale is valid till 13th December. Read more here.

If that’s not motivation enough, these eight spots will definitely make up your mind.

1. BONDI, NEW SOUTH WALES

As one of Sydney’s most popular golden-sand beaches, Bondi Beach needs no introduction. This stretch of sand comes alive with the sunrise, and the party continues all day and well into the night. As you walk to the beach, chances are you’ll see surfers riding the waves, swimmers getting their laps in at the Bondi Baths, and plenty of people soaking in the sights and sounds (and sun) from their towels on the sand. You can dip your toes into a true-blue Aussie way of life and sign up for a surfing lesson here; there are plenty of accredited schools along the main stretch that’ll show you the ropes. Grab a bite at the iconic Bondi Icebergs, one of the country’s oldest swim clubs, or walk the Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk, a six-kilometre (3.7-mile)

2. WINEGLASS BAY, TASMANIA

Lounging on one of the top ten beaches in the world should be a definite addition to your Aussie bucket list. Tasmania’s Wineglass Bay is situated within Freycinet National Park, just a one-hour drive from the capital city of Hobart. A crescent-shaped bay with clear blue waters, hugged by the peaks of the Hazards range – you could spend hours taking Insta-worthy photos here. A cruise along the waters is one of the best ways to get up-close with the bay and its highlights. Spot wildlife and gaze up at the soaring granite cliffs as you learn more about the region and its history.

3. AUSTRALIA’S COLOURFUL LAKES

You can never get enough of Australia’s coast, but for something a bit different, head towards Western Australia and its colourful lakes. The bubblegum pink lakes of Australia’s Golden Outback are an astonishing site, and will make a great addition to your Instagram feed. The most famous of the pink lakes is Lake Hillier, near Esperance, an eight-hour drive or short flight from Perth. In this region, you can also visit Lake Ballard near Kalgoorlie, a salt lake that features a permanent art installation of 51 statues. Down in South Australia, you can visit the bright pinks, blues and greens of Lake MacDonnell in the Eyre Peninsula, or even see the world’s largest ephemeral lake, Lake Eyre. Whether there's water or not, it is a phenomenal sight best taken in on a scenic flight.

4. KANGAROO ISLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

If you are looking for up-close encounters with Australia’s intriguing wildlife, Kangaroo Island should be a top pick. Located a quick 40-minute flight from Adelaide, over a third of this island is a conservation park that is home to everything from kangaroos and koalas to short-beaked echidnas and tammar wallabies. You’ll find all of this in beautiful surrounds, including natural structures like Admirals Arch and the Remarkable Rocks. Kangaroo Island also provides opportunities for a luxurious retreat, whether it's staying in an award-winning lodge set atop coastal shelves, treating yourself to a massage at a cliff-top spa, or sampling the delicate flavours of marron – a type of crayfish – paired with some of the country’s best produce, gins, wines and brews.

5. DAINTREE RAINFOREST, QUEENSLAND

Trek through lush jungle amid ancient ferns and green vines as you spy animals and plants that are found nowhere else on the planet. This is the Daintree Rainforest, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site. Here you can fly through the canopies of an age-old forest on a zipline for a bird’s-eye outlook of the land below, or cruise down the Daintree River towards Cape Tribulation, where the Great Barrier Reef meets the rainforest. You'll also find plenty of lodge and luxury accommodation. This is truly a magical place – it’s no surprise it served as inspiration for the movie Avatar.

6. SNOWFIELDS AUSTRALIA

If you are visiting in the Australian winter (June – August), don’t miss a trip to Victoria’s snowfields. From skiing and snowshoeing to cutting through the powder on a snowmobile and skidding down slopes on a toboggan, there’s plenty for an adventure-lover to pick from. While you’re here, go on a dog-sledding experience; it’s one of the best ways to immerse yourself in the beauty of the Alpine scenery. You will get a chance to test out your mushing (dog sled driving) skills before spending some time cuddling with your new four-legged friends. But if you'd rather stay cosy indoors, you can opt for a wilderness retreat, where you’ll enjoy being curled up in front of a warm wood fire with cheese fondue.

7. VLASOFF CAY, QUEENSLAND

If you want to step off the beaten path towards something secluded and remote, consider Vlasoff Cay. This private sand island is surrounded by the vast blue ocean and appears only at low tide, making it a unique spot for an intimate picnic. You can get here on a helicopter or take a chartered boat from Cairns and settle onto the sand with a delicious picnic lunch and a bottle of bubbly.  The island is yours to explore, making it the perfect mix of leisure and adventure.

8. HEART REEF, WHITSUNDAYS, QUEENSLAND

When a heart just pops up in nature, you have to check it out. Heart Reef is a naturally formed coral heart found in Hardy Reef in the Whitsundays and was first spotted by an Air Whitsunday pilot flying overhead in 1975. It may have popped up in your Instagram feed once or twice (especially if there was a romantic proposal involved), and though it might look remote, it’s not difficult to get that ‘Gram worthy shot. Its protected nature means that the only way to see it is via a helicopter or light plane flight over – that’s also the best way to get a photograph (or five) of this romantic location. You can combine the flight with a tour of other incredible sights in the Whitsundays, like Hill Inlet and Whitehaven Beach.

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Adventure tours South Australia - River Country Adventours was formed in 1993 with the aim of being one of the best regional tourism businesses in the state. Over the last 30+ years we have developed a huge following for our popular canoe/Kayak safaris and camping experiences, As well as our special flight tours to some of the best outback regions of Australia, Including Birdsville, Lake Eyre, Flinders ranges and Ceduna to witness the annual massing of Southern right Whales at the head of bight. 

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A tour of Dominica in search of Creole cooking and the spirit of Jean Rhys | Travel

There’s a Caribbean paradise that we all know about: coconut palms; sand soft as white silk; blue seas veiling a coral underworld. And then there’s Dominica. It’s one of the slender necklace of green and mountainous islands – Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia – that bewitched the young travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor when he visited them in the 1950s. Named by Columbus because it was on a Sunday that the Portuguese mariner spotted the tiny island’s rearing cliffs, Dominica’s enchantment lies in a combination of unspoilt beauty – hikers adore its hidden lakes, cascading rivers and almost impenetrable forest trails – and a sense of having stepped back in time.

I came to Dominica in search of Jean Rhys, the celebrated Celtic-Creole novelist who was born here in 1890. I fell in love with her childhood Eden from the moment the local aeroplane from Antigua – no major companies yet fly there direct – touched down in the majestic shadow of Morne Diablotins. Awaiting me was the island’s most erudite tour guide. Affectionately known as “the Oracle”, Dr Lennox Honychurch had volunteered to show me the Dominica immortalised in Rhys’s novels.

Less Rhys-obsessed visitors can share a taxi for the 90-minute journey from Douglas-Charles airport to Roseau. I spent a happy two days in the island’s capital at the renovated Charlotte Estate B&B. Set above Roseau’s sparkling bay, this bewitching little hotel offers Creole cooking with a decidedly French twist served on a plantation-style veranda. Far off, you can hear the conch shell horns, announcing the return of the fishing fleet.

Fantasy island … Batibou beach. Photograph: Tom Madge-Wyld/Getty Images

Roseau is tiny. It took me five minutes to stroll from the hotel up to the town’s Botanic Gardens, created in 1890 in collaboration with Kew. Was it under the gardens’ vast banyan tree – nowadays a favourite spot for selfies – that Rhys painfully recalled having been “mentally seduced” by a certain “Mr Howard”, an elderly Englishman who fantasised about turning a wide-eyed 14-year-old girl into his sex slave? Or did this strange episode take place in the more formal garden that encloses the clifftop Roseau library? (I knew that this was where Rhys first read Jane Eyre, the book that inspired her best-known novel, Wide Sargasso Sea.)

Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island in 2017, carried off the library’s roof. Its effects are still visible today, but I found the luxuriant mango tree described in Rhys’s memoir Smile Please, still spreading its green canopy above the wooden shell of her parents’ once elegant townhouse on Cork Street. Literary homes aren’t a priority on an island that is still rebuilding entire villages after the hurricane. Rhys’s Roseau home may even have to be demolished.

Dominica haunts all of Rhys’s fiction. I wondered whether Roseau’s market would still smell of frangipani, lime juice, cinnamon and cloves? (Yes, although the market has moved location from where slaves were once auctioned, out to the edge of town.) Would I find her remembered world of blue mountains and plunging ravines? A world, she wrote, where “everything is green, everything is growing…” Reader, I did.

Southern tip … Soufrière village, near Scotts Head, where the ‘roar of the Atlantic’ meets the ‘sleepy sigh of the Caribbean’. Photograph: Getty Images

Pointe Baptiste – the Napier family’s beautiful home and neighbouring cottages – is hugely popular with visitors, so book ahead. It is a plantation-style house on Dominica’s north coast, which Rhys visited on her sole return to the island in 1936. Lennox and I arrived when the midday sun was glittering off the sea. Author Patrick Leigh Fermor remembered drinks being served with “almost Babylonian splendour”. I admired the Atlantic view, while savouring a bar of home-produced chocolate. (You can also buy Alan Napier’s chocolate products at Petit Paris, Roseau’s favourite waterside coffee shop.)

I knew that the tiny inland estates purchased by Rhys’s father (Amelia and Bona Vista) had long since been swallowed up by rampant vegetation so I asked Lennox to take me to Geneva, where Rhys’s Creole mother grew up. Here, too, we were greeted by a green plateau of tangled vines, enclosed – as always on this most mountainous of islands – by the soaring peaks, the names of which Rhys could recite in her sleep. Along the way, Lennox and I talked about Rhys’s writings and the magnetic personality of their creator, a recluse whose works are haunted by the memory of her Caribbean childhood.

I learned that the house at Geneva was destroyed in the 1930s. The rusty wheels and crushers of the old sugar mill remain, reminders of an uglier age. Below us nestled Stowe, the modest shoreside house where Rhys’s mother and her twin welcomed Jean’s seafaring father to his first medical practice on the island. “Stowe hasn’t changed at all,” Lennox proudly told me – and I began to understand that Dominica’s landscapes could teach me more about Rhys than her vanishing homes ever could.

Step back in time … Soufrière church. Photograph: Shutterstock

Back at Roseau, I visited the travel desk at the town’s largest hotel, Fort Young. Shane, who works for Ken’s Hinterland Adventure Tours, drove me south along the coast to Scotts Head. There, standing on a narrow isthmus of sand and pebbles, I’d been told that I would hear precisely where the Atlantic’s roar, thundering down from a sea of white breakers, meets the Caribbean’s sleepy sigh. Twist left to hear the sigh; twist right, for the roar. Shane, used to showing off Dominica’s twin-sea miracle, smiled at my excitement.

A few final treats still lay ahead. Deep in the Roseau valley, at the foot of the majestic Trafalgar Falls, were the gardens of Papillote. Nearby, Wotten Waven offered outdoor sulphur springs, mud baths and inexpensive hospitality at the friendly Petit Paris (perfect for another delicious creole lunch). Heading north again, I took a leisurely trip down Indian River (Pirates of the Caribbean territory) before spending a night at the island’s most imaginative resort. The spacious verandas of Secret Bay’s spacious guano-wood “tree-houses” offer panoramic views of Dominica’s smouldering sunsets and mountain-vaulting rainbows. How could Rhys ever forget an island of such unparalleled beauty? I knew I never would.

Way to go

British Airways flies regularly from Gatwick to Antigua (£410 return) or Barbados (from £414 return); LIAT daily local flights connect to Douglas-Charles airport. Charlotte Estate B&B has rooms from £105. Pointe Baptiste has four rooms and costs £210 a night. Dr Lennox Honychurch organises tours for up to eight people, also try Ken’s Hinterland Adventure Tours

In Byron’s Wake by Miranda Seymour (Simon & Schuster, £12.99) is available from guardianbookshop.com for £11.43

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New Kimberley Corner Country Simpson Desert Canning Lake Eyre 4WD Tours for 2024

Great New Kimberley Corner Country Simpson Desert Canning Lake Eyre 4WD Tours for 2024 – after early bookings we have now these dates and special offers AVAILABLE Jump in quick because these tours book out – especially Kimberley accommodated tours New Kimberley Corner Country Simpson Desert Canning Lake Eyre 4WD Tours for 2024 Here is a listing of Kimberley Corner Country Simpson Desert Canning…

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Latest Channel Country and Lake Eyre Tours and Flights

Three cyclones were active over Australia a few weeks ago and this was after a fourth cyclone that occurred earlier this summer. These have had a big impact so here is the News an the Latest Channel Country and Lake Eyre Tours and Flights. This has brought huge amounts of rain to the Lake Eyre catchment and still there are flood waters moving down and some roads are still closed. Borroloola in…

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Lake Eyre Tours in 2024

Embarking on Lake Eyre Tours in 2024 with Spirit Safari in the heart of Australia is a journey unlike any other, especially in the wake of cyclone Kirrily creating huge 2024 floods. Tours are available as 3, 4, 6, 8 or 10 days. This rare phenomenon has transformed the desert landscape into an oasis, creating a spectacle that captures the essence of nature’s unpredictable beauty. Our Lake Eyre…

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News and Early Bird Savings for Spirit Safaris 2024 Tours

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New Lake Eyre Tours and Flights from Sydney Broken Hill Adelaide Alice Springs

These new small group by 4WD Lake Eyre Tours and Flights from Sydney Broken Hill Adelaide Alice Springs are happening July August September to catch the latest Lake Eyre floods. Genuine small groups – Only 2 – 4 people per Four Wheel Drive. Floodwater are coming in from most rivers surrounding Lake Eyre after heavy rains in the Channel Country plus Uluru and Alice Springs. Goyder Lagoon (photo)…

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Corner Country Lake Eyre Mungo Outback Tours

Corner Country Lake Eyre Mungo Outback Tours Corner Country Lake Eyre Mungo Outback Tours are now available from Broken Hill Adelaide and Sydney. See the links below or please ask Private Small Group 4WD Adventures for 2-4 or more people New dates and tours for 2022 are here and travelling well …. Corner Country Lake Eyre Mungo Outback Tours include … Lake Eyre tours and flights ex Adelaide or…

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Lake Eyre Tours and Flights 2022

Lake Eyre Tours and Flights 2022

Lake Eyre Tours and Flights 2022 Our Lake Eyre Tours and Flights 2022 from Broken Hill and Adelaide include 4WD access to the lake shore, latest bird viewing, and optional spectacular flight choices over Lake Eyre and surrounds viewing the Warburton Groove (major inflow) Elliot Price Conservation Park, (Donald) Campbell Point, Jackboot, Halligan & Belt Bays, Lake Eyre South, major islands &…

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Broken Hill Flights with Qantas and Rex Airlines

Broken Hill Flights with Qantas and Rex Airlines

Broken Hill Flights with Qantas and Rex Airlines Broken Hill Flights with Qantas and Rex Airlines in competition after flying kangaroo to launch new flights to iconic Aussie outback town means easier tours options to Cameron Corner Country, Lake Eyre, Flinders Ranges, Mungo National Park and more Qantas has today announced it will add Broken Hill to its domestic route network for the first time,…

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Corner Country tours via Arkaroola Flinders Ranges Birdsville Lake Eyre

Corner Country tours via Arkaroola Flinders Ranges Birdsville Lake Eyre

New 2018 dates now available for Corner Country tours via Arkaroola Flinders Ranges Birdsville Lake Eyre from Adelaide or Broken Hill to Birdsville, via Strzelecki Track, Arkaroola, Wilpena Pound, Lake Eyre (flight included), Flinders Ranges to Adelaide or Broken Hill. Includes Cooper Creek, Lake Eyre, Moomba, Innamincka,…

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Lake Eyre Tours Flights October November 2017

Lake Eyre Tours Flights October November 2017

Lake Eyre Tours Flights October November 2017

New rains flood Lake Eyre – see latest Lake Eyre floods on our Lake Eyre Tours Flights October November 2017 tours after Spring rainfall washes through Central Australia. Join our next tour and exprience this natural wonder with the bonus of Spring wildflowers

Lake Eyre Tours Flights October November 2017

October 7-12  – Arkaroola Wilpena Flinders…