The journey from Manali in Himachal Pradesh to Spiti Valley - the cold desert mountain near Tibetan border is one of the most beautiful road trips in India. Let's take this amazing journey.
The journey from Manali in Himachal Pradesh to Spiti Valley - the cold desert mountain near Tibetan border is one of the most beautiful road trips in India. Let's take this amazing journey.
Of all the things to do in La Perouse, the sunset is the one I’d plan a trip around, even though the sea soaked me and my camera while I waited for it. I went on a Sunday evening in January 2026, 45 minutes to an hour by public transport from the city centre. I found a grassy headland above a calm, wide stretch of Botany Bay, a small timber bridge running out...
A Port Stephens day trip from Sydney promises dolphins, koalas and the largest moving coastal sand dunes in the Southern Hemisphere, all in one long day. My guided coach tour in January 2026 delivered all three, just not the way I’d pictured: the dolphins stayed far from the boat, the koalas were my third sighting in Australia, and sliding down the dunes turned...
Bondi is Sydney’s most famous beach, and of all the things to do in Bondi Beach, the one I’d start with is the one I did first: almost nothing. I sat on the grass in Bondi Park, then on the sand, and watched the ocean. I went back a few more times, at different times of day, and mostly did the same again. That’s the first thing to know about Bondi:...
I have never walked the Bondi to Coogee walk in one go. I walked it twice, from opposite ends, on two very different days. Both times I stopped in the same windy clifftop park above Clovelly without planning to. The first time, I set off from Coogee on a cloudy February afternoon with the wind whipping the sea white. The second time, I started at Bondi in the late...
Watsons Bay sits at the very tip of South Head, the southern gatepost of Sydney Harbour. It was the easiest escape from the city I found in Sydney, and one of the simplest half-day trips you can make without a car. A ferry from Circular Quay drops you, around 25 minutes later, at a harbourside village with a calm beach, a park full of gulls, and a seafood restaurant...
Sydney hands you the Opera House for free from a dozen different angles. I wrote a whole guide to the best Sydney Opera House viewpoints around the harbour, and every one of those views is real and deserves your time. But none of them are the thing itself. You can photograph those sails from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair at sunset for the rest of your life and still...
Wherever you go in Sydney, they’re there. Cross a random street, glance between two buildings, and the Sydney Opera House’s white sails and the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s grey arch are somehow back in frame, as if the whole city were built to keep circling past them. Twelve nights across two stays, and somewhere in the middle of that I stopped counting...
Thirty-one days, thirty nights, six regions, one country I gave a full month for the first time. Every hotel and every tour below is one I actually booked and actually did.
This 7-day Cairns and Great Barrier Reef itinerary comes from my own week in Cairns: Daintree, Fitzroy Island’s fringing reef, the Atherton Tablelands, Kuranda and a slow Palm Cove day, plus the outer reef day I’d add if I went back. Seven nights, one day trip a day, and no rental car needed. I flew into Cairns from Melbourne on 17 January, a motel on...
Cairns punches above its weight for a city its size. Harbourside boardwalks are lined with fine dining, the marina is thick with seafood, and the Esplanade alone covers everything from a French bistro to a night market that never shuts. Here’s how I’d split it, by the kind of night you’re actually after. A full infographic summary of where to eat in...