Australia s top 25 travel experiences, state by state
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Australians: get excited. It doesn t matter where you are in this fine land, there is a travel destination or attraction nearby that is truly amazing, truly world-class.
We re talking the sort of experiences that foreign visitors have typically – in better times – spent their life savings on being able to access. The likes of sailing in the Whitsundays, visiting ancient Indigenous rock-art sites, cruising in the Kimberley, wining and dining in our finest locales.
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This is the stuff we Australians should be getting genuinely excited about when it comes to planning a holiday at home this year, the places and experiences that couldn t be bettered overseas even if you were able to try. Every state and territory has them. It s time to be inspired.
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And I didn t mention them. I didn t mention them because, in my mind, what I was trying to say was true: you just don t see those cultures in day-to-day Australian life.
When I picture the everyday existence in some other countries I ve spent a lot of time in, the likes of Spain and India and Japan and Vietnam, I see culture that s dense and inescapable, ancient traditions that are played out before your eyes day after day after day. They re there, right in front of you. You will now receive updates from Traveller Newsletter
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