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THE ONE FOOD TOUR
Just arrived? Get your bearings and meet fellow foodies on a three-hour Darwin gourmet lunch or dinner trek. Sample fare from places like Phat Mango in Smith Street (Martin the chef specialises in punchy local flavours: Rum Jungle buffalo carpaccio with river mint salsa verde; NT reef fish wings with peri peri); at PepperBerry in the revamped Hilton try native pepperberry loaf with saltbush dukkah or salt and pepper crocodile; and at Chow on the waterfront it s crunchy green rice flake spring rolls and do-or-die desserts. As you walk, then waddle, between restaurants you ll spot landmarks including the interactive street art (below). See darwingourmettours.com
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Be it a trip to the Top End to view relics of Darwin’s bombing, a sombre viewing of the moving collections held by the Australian War Memorial or a whirl around the Vietnam Veterans Museum on Phillip Island, there’s plenty of military tourism to be had at home.
A Darwin pilgrimage
Darwin Harbour as it is today. In February 1942, the city was subjected to the greatest foreign attack on Australian soil.
It is a fact little remembered around the country that the air raid on Darwin just before 10am on February 19, 1942, by 188 Japanese bombers was the first and the largest foreign attack on Australian soil.