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| | Australia's eastern most point is also one of the planet's most chilled-out, cruisy little beach communities. Located in the north of New South Wales, Byron Bay's bohemian authenticity attracts both vacationing Australians and tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year. A visualy stunning town, cradled in the sweeping concha of an enormous cape, the crystalline water is a host to migrating... |  |
| Apparently the surf gods have spoken, and together, with the minister of Australian propaganda and salty swells, have dubbed this point break, the alpha and the omega of surf spots. Sick waves, cranking lefts, and a heterogeneous gaggle of eye-candy clad in skimpy bikinis, knee-length boardies and decked out in silly sunnies, make this a vacation for the sport and the surf. While the name may... |  |
| On the banks of the Yarra River, Melbourne lies in wait, ready to delight visitors with its old-world boulevards, art-conscious culture, and friendly citizenry. The capitol of the southeast province of Victoria, it has the feel of a 19th century European city due to its broad boulevards, gianormous parklands, and generous helping of wrought iron. Despite city planners’ attempts to catapult it... |  |
| Sydney is not the capital of Australia—that responsibility goes to its planned sister-city to the south-west, Canberra—but Sydney is Australia’s economic hub and the cultural center of this sometimes surprisingly conservative country. Sydney is immediately recognizable for its gorgeous Opera House, which visitors may mistake for a fleet of sailboats beached on the shore of the inner harbor. In... |  |
| Krikey! Welcome to Croc-ountry! Darwin is an isolated outpost on the northern shores of the titanic Australian continent. Darwin is both the 'Big Smoke' and a rural garrison at once, with a population of 100K + it is the capital and largest city of the empty Northern Territory, but also Australia's smallest capital city by a long shot. Named Darwin, after the brilliant British naturalist, the... |  |
| Perth, unlike pith, "the soft, sponge like, central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants, composed mainly of parenchyma," is the capital and largest city in the Australian state of Western Australia. A breathtaking coastal destination on the poetically named Swan River, Perth is fantastically Australian. Space, ocean-views, soft beaches and gourmet restaurants make Perth a favorite... |  |
| Australia is a continent country of undeniably cruisy climes. A place where the American model of efficiency meets the British fix on tea-time, a first rate lifestyle that both achieve goals and maintains perspective on the bigger picture, life is good, and different in the island state of Tasmania. If Australia proper is cruisy, blending the naturalism and love of a southern California surfer... |
| "Ho'BART..." isn't just the common San Franciscan colloquialism used to hail the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, it's also a great little capital city on the Australian island state of Tasmania. A sleepy, but buzzing port town of just over 200K people, Hobart often evokes comparisons to Wellington, NZ. Unlike Wellington, Hobart was founded as a penal colony, and though the streets are safe and... |
| 1.1 million plus Australians make Adelaide both the biggest city in the state of South Australia (redundantly named given that the name Australis translates as south in Latin) and the nation's 5th largest metropolis. Founded in 1836, Adelaide was a planned city meant to host the only free settlers from Britain. Unlike the rough and tumble criminality of Sydney, Adelaide was meant to be a staid... |  |
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