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When you’re stuck in the meeting from hell, it’s easy to distract yourself with visions of exotic beaches, African savannah or some sun-soaked Tuscan Villa. But really, there’s some pretty…
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Ah Tasmania. The Apple Isle. You may know it as the bit of Australia that often gets left off maps, Commonwealth Games uniforms and various marketing collateral. Awks. It also happens…
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When you walk around the base of Uluru, you reach a spot that’s divided travellers, locals and politicians for decades. A simple chain handrail snaking up the rock face, and a sign…
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Walking in Memphis plays through the bus speakers as we drive away from Melbourne. It’s eight o’clock in the morning and the weather is dreary, bleak, and cold — a…
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When you’re stuck in the meeting from hell, it’s easy to distract yourself with visions of exotic beaches, African savannah or some sun-soaked Tuscan Villa. But really, there’s some pretty…
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“Have you heard there’s a killer on the loose?” our tour guide asked us with a broad grin, as he twirled his golden brown dreadlocks. “A crocodile you mean?” I’d…
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Bouncing along a corduroy road at 5:30am, my head drowsily leaning against the bus window, I admired the Tiffany-blue sky and thought about upside down rivers. Yesterday, on our 4-hour…
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We like to joke that Down Under is on top of the world, but really, unless you live in Indonesia or something, we’re not a particularly convenient place to get…
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American comedian Arj Barker once came up with an experiment to put the Australian vernacular to the test. Suspicious of what he was sure were just made-up words sprinkled into…
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We’re lucky to live in a country that has thousands of edible plant species – including some bush tucker that you can’t find anywhere else in the world.
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A lot of people ask us what an Adventure Tours trip will actually be like. What sort of stuff do you do? Who do you do it with? In what…
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We’d only just started our walk, departing Cradle Mountain Lodge and heading out onto one of treks available through the Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park. I’d just…
