Skywalk in Sydney: dare to step out over the edge!
Skywalk is Sydney’s newest and highest open air attraction.
Enjoy 360-degree open air views of Sydney, Australia from the roof of Sydney Tower, a breathtaking 260 metres above Sydney.
Harnessed onto a moving, glass-floored viewing platform that extends out over the edge of the golden turret of Sydney Tower, you can view Sydney beneath your feet from [...]
Fun with chocolate in New Zealand
Saturday 11 July to Friday 17 July, 2009, Dunedin, New Zealand.
What else can you do with chocolate besides eat it?
Dunedin, New Zealand students come up with some bizarre solutions during the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, running next July.
The festival offers a tasty range of events and activities. With everything from chocolate therapy, a chocolate cooking class, chocolate [...]
Australia offers best job in the world
Position > Island caretaker. Duties > Lazing around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for six months. Salary > A$150,000 (U.S. $100,000).
It sounds too good to be true, but it’s for real. Billing it the “Best Job in the World”, Australian tourism officials say they are seeking one lucky person to spend six months relaxing on Hamilton Island, part of [...]
Luxury at the end of a wining road
Room at The Inn > Stirling is one of the prettiest towns in the Adelaide Hills, the gardens of its 19th-century stone bungalows thick with roses and rhododendrons, camellia bushes and old oaks.
At this time of year, there are blooms and berries, too, and a warm softness in the air. Like its twin shoulder-season of [...]
Bula boomtime > Fiji
Bula boomtime > There are new levels of classy luxury on offer in Fiji
Fiji would have to come close to top of the Best Rest List. But while its traditional family resorts are still popular with tourists, especially Australians, accounting for more than 70 per cent of arrivals each year, there’s a new layer of [...]
New Zealand > 48 hours in Wellington
Beautiful scenery, art, great food and a touch of Hollywood, it’s all within walking distance in Wellington. The only problem is deciding what to do first..
Wellington is very proud of its connection to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
GETTING THERE > Wellington is one of those amazing cities where you can touch down at the [...]
Sydney and Mardi Gras
In North America, February marks the very heart of winter, and for much of the continent, this means chilly weather and dark, gloomy days. This is not the case on the other side of the world, in Sydney, Australia, the hippest and hottest gay destination in the southern hemisphere. Here, February marks the height of [...]
Travel > 48 hours in Adelaide
Visiting family Down Under? You could stop off in the restaurant capital of Australia. There’s also plenty of culture to feast on.
WHY GO NOW? > As Northern Ireland descends into winter, Adelaide is going in the other direction, with balmy temperatures and lengthening days. One of Australia’s best-kept secrets is that this once sleepy city [...]
Tonga a tiny nation with a huge heart
Looking for whales in incredibly clear blue water.
The flying aluminium pencil case that carries you slowly to Tonga’s outlying island groups is a neat metaphor for the Pacific’s only remaining kingdom.
You climb on board, using a steep staircase, feeling that the romance of travel is alive and well, even if you are wearing a [...]
Australia > Get down with the devils
Tasmania combines pristine wilderness with good living. This is your island guide.
An hour after dark, somewhere in eastern Tasmania, a river bed on a deserted farm has come to life. Wombats, Tasmanian devils and dozens of wallabies amble here and there, as other animals get on with their evening’s business. It’s beautiful and quite silent, [...]
