Australian Traveller

Packed with honest reviews and inspiring travel stories, Australian Traveller is the most authoritative and trusted guide to travelling this great country. It's no wonder that it's Australia's best-selling travel magazine.

Editor’s letter

Australian Traveller

ONLINE • Australia offers a DIVERSE range of destinations that inspire AWE and wonder. Get ready for your next ADVENTURE at australiantraveller.com

AN ODE TO THE LAKE HOUSE

TRAVEL BUZZ • From a multi-day Blue Mountains HIKE to luxury small-ship EXPEDITIONS, put these NEW adventures on your RADAR.

PILLOW TALK • Check in to CHECK OUT the latest, GREATEST and most FABULOUS stays across the COUNTRY.

WINE & DINE • Celebrating the NEW and noteworthy, from a COASTAL hang on Sydney’s northern BEACHES to an elevated place for PIZZA in St Kilda.

WILD THINGS • Australia’s top five ANIMALS might not be ‘big’ but they are mighty. And seeing these ICONIC creatures in the wild on beautiful beaches or BUSH walks is as awe-inspiring as it gets.

All that glitters • AUSTRALIAN gemstones hold STORIES of the landscapes that birthed them. It’s no WONDER they’re some of the most BEAUTIFUL on Earth.

Sweet dreams • It’s time to hit the SNOOZE button and RESET your body clock as SLEEP TOURISM is on the rise, writes Tracey Cheung.

TREASURE CHEST • If one of the world’s most important ECOSYSTEMS fails, this clever insurance policy may PROVE to be its saving grace. Emily McAuliffe takes a look inside the world’s first living CORAL BIOBANK.

Full of heart • ALICE SPRINGS sits at the heart of the NATION. Behind the headlines, you’ll find BEAUTIFUL landscapes, ancient cultures and MAGIC moments, writes Elizabeth Whitehead.

Prize winners • Thanks to everyone who entered to WIN over $175,000 worth of PRIZES in Australian Traveller’s Mega Holiday Giveaway (#100). Congratulations to the LUCKY winners!

GO WITH THE HERD

REINCARNATION • Sleek and sustainable new diner DE’SENDENT is an exciting EVOLUTION of a Margaret River trailbazer, writes Fleur Bainger.

Nice and breezy • Splitting the difference between a RETRO MOTEL and a MED RESORT, Adelaide’s Hotel Alba proves you don’t need to splurge to feel SPECIAL, finds Alexis Buxton-Collins.

Pialligo, ACT • The semi-rural ENCLAVE of Pialligo on Canberra’s EDGES oozes COUNTRY charm, with its checklist of FLOWERS, autumn apples, TRUFFLES, cafes and CERAMICS on tap, writes Christine Aldred.

STATION STARS • The bush telegraph is ABUZZ with a rising trend that’s stirring up TRAVEL aspirations like a willy-willy. Station stays are emerging from the shadows into a SHINING star in Australian EXPERIENTIAL travel.

Snow days • Since falling hard for THREDBO on a snow trip more than a decade ago, Lara Picone has become a PASSIONATE advocate for Australia’s own WINTER wonderland.

Gourmet GIPPSLAND • South Gippsland, which STRETCHES from Melbourne’s eastern suburbs all the way to Wilsons Promontory, is gorgeous, GREEN and a gastronomic DELIGHT.

100 Aussie WONDERS* • Wild coastlines, dramatic gorges, ANCIENT rainforests: these natural LANDSCAPES are indisputable wonders. Here, we widen the SCOPE to the arts and architecture, CULTURAL institutions, gourmet delights, epic road trips... all the things that make Australia the EXTRAORDINARY place it is.

ICONIC wonders • An ICON is a place or thing that’s INSTANTLY recognisable and widely adored. Be that for its BEAUTY, symbolism, ingenuity or the JOY it brings. These wonders are part of our FABRIC.

NATURAL wonders • DEEP chasms, cascading WATERFALLS, emerald waterholes. ROCKS that pierce blue skies. Hyper-green RAINFOREST. Night-sky phenomena. This WIDE, brown land HOLDS plenty of natural COLOUR and...