It’d be fair to say Australia’s wildlife ain’t the friendliest knocking about. Man-eating crocs, lady-eating sharks, baby-eating dingoes. Poisonous snakes, venomous spiders, sea snails fitted out with tiny toxic harpoons…

We’re lucky to have so many iconic critters as part of our landscape: kangaroos, possums, koalas, emus, crocodiles and rhinos. Wait, what? That’s right – in a world-first conservation push…

For a long time scientists believed Indigenous Australians to be the most ancient continuous civilisations on the planet, and now they have the DNA to prove it. A team of researchers…

I won’t lie: extensive travel has made me somewhat immune to the effects of seeing a remarkable location for the first time. I pinch myself less. My breath’s hardly ever…

It’s okay if you don’t know how to pronounce it; we didn’t either until we paid a visit to Adelaide’s playground, the famous Fleurieu Peninsula (think floo-ree-oh). Easily daytrip-able from…

When Lee (USA) booked his 22-day Darwin to Perth trip with Adventure Tours, he had no idea that on this trip, he would abseil right into the arms of his…

As night falls over Kangaroo Island, hundreds of local residents hop out from beneath the trees to graze on the grassy hills. They’re a special subspecies of Western Grey Kangaroo, native to…

Greece is blessed with a bounty of natural wonders: the craggy hills of Meteora, the black sands of Santorini…the Twelve Apostles. Wait, what? Rewind that last bit. Turns out Greece’s latest tourism video…

We’re cruising along the clifftop highway, the minibus taking turns ponderously, grinding up the gears as we climb through a stand of eucalypt trees. All of sudden the ground to…

It’s a rarity these days: a sleepy island that really lives up to the name. In a lot of ways, the 21st century left Kangaroo Island behind. Cut off from…

ATA trip leader Damian Thornton has been leading trips through Western Australia and the Top End for the past 4 years. On a recent overland road trip from Broome to…

If you’ve always thought of Western Australia as a big hole in the ground where we dig for the precious metals and opals and magic pixie dust that somehow drives the…