Link Taipei, Taiwan s capital. The country of 24 million has successfully contained COVID-19 since early in the pandemic.
Photo: iStock It has been a whole year without travelling. It will be whole new experience for every passenger. I also want to show my fans about how open international travel is, Shih said.
Fellow passenger Josephine Lin said Taiwan s success battling the pandemic meant she felt very safe during this recent past period. You will now receive updates from Traveller Newsletter
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Hotels in some of the country s most popular destinations are reporting no vacancies for the next three weeks as holidaymakers race to snap up half-price airfares, smashing pandemic travel records. There s just nothing available; we re fully booked till the end of the holidays, said Tracey Harris of the Caloundra Holiday Centre on the Sunshine Coast.
See Also After that, there s some availability, but things are being booked really fast, so you have to get in quick. I think prices have risen by about 10 per cent because of demand.
On the Gold Coast, many hotels says they only have a few vacancies left in the coming weeks, while bookings platform Wotif.com saw accommodation searches for the destinations in the cut-price airfare bonanza soar by 55 per cent, and advise travellers, if they can, to avoid long weekends and the winter school holidays.
Rone (Tyrone Wright, above) got to know his home town on a skateboard - the street sport of the street artist. He s returned with an exhibition of his huge, ethereal, stop-you-in-your-tracks paintings and installations at the Geelong Gallery. There s also an explanation of the three faces he painted on the cement silos above nearby Fyansford. The silos have since been demolished, but that s the fate of some street art. Rone in Geelong runs until May 16. See geelonggallery.org.au
THE ONE CAFE
For coffee and service of the kind urban Victorians have come to expect, make your way to Poco Cafe Expres in Geelong West (111 Pakington Street) and put yourself in the hands of Talya and Jared Cooper. They serve coffee in all its complexities along with cakes, pastries and focaccias. On Friday afternoon the ice buckets emerge for aperitivo with drinks and tapas-style food served until 8 or 9. See facebook.com/pococafeexpres
Airports in East Arnhem Land come without security screening (except Gove) and fat chance of a latte. They re little more than corrugated red mud tracks etched out between trees, barely wide enough for a plane to land. Rivers, creeks and estuaries run wild round here when the rains arrive with summer. You won t get in by road; the only way in or out is by air.
The coast, the estuaries and East Arnhem Land s savannah woodlands swarm with salt-water crocs bigger than the tinnies everyone gets about in. This chunk of the Northern Territory is almost the size of England, though its population s just shy of 20,000 (compare that to the latter s 56 million).