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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Canada and Norway may have dominated the Instagram landscape in recent years (turns out fjords and pristine glacial lakes scrub up all right). But Australia is no slouch when it…

As a kid, Andrew Fielke remembers rolling marbles in the sand on the banks of the Murray River. Only the smooth orbs he played with weren’t made of glass; they…