When Lee (USA) booked his 22-day Darwin to Perth trip with Adventure Tours Australia, he had no idea that on this trip, he would abseil right into the arms of …
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6 times Australia’s wildlife tried to take back what’s theirs
by Taz Liffmanby Taz LiffmanIt’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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …