Australian Traveller

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Australian Traveller

ONLINE • Even with international TRAVEL back on the agenda, the pull of a DOMESTIC holiday is stronger than ever. PLAN yours at australiantraveller.com

SHORTCUTS • pillow talk . wine & dine . hot list . rewind . park life . inner beauty . walkabout . what’s on

WISH YOU WERE HERE • EAST ALLIGATOR RIVER, NT

PILLOW TALK • COMING SOON: check in to CHECK OUT Australia’s most FABULOUS new STAYS.

HOT PLATES

WINE & DINE • From a new sandstone bar in HOBART, to a new look for an old fave in NAROOMA, here’s where to get amongst it.

Flavour pop

GORGEOUS GARDENS • Stop and smell the ROSES at one of these special POCKETS of COLOUR and creativity hidden EVERYWHERE from an art museum to the COUNTRYSIDE to the city centre.

FLIGHTS OF FANCY • With nonstop London flights from DARWIN back on the AGENDA temporarily, we take a moment to explore the place our northern capital has in Australia’s AVIATION HISTORY.

NARAWNTAPU NATIONAL PARK • With a stunning diversity of LANDSCAPES – from long, wide beaches to HEATHLAND and lagoons – to the PROFUSION of animal life that lives here, this HIDDEN GEM of a park in TASMANIA’S NORTH will get under your skin.

FASCINATING FAUNA • A sanctuary for coastal and waterbirds, and for marsupials of all persuasions, Narawntapu is accordingly dubbed the ‘Tasmanian Serengeti’.

The best seven days of your life • Australia’s most remote ISLAND FESTIVAL features a program of EXCLUSIVE EXPERIENCES for just 30 people – from wildlife encounters to diving, hiking, foraging and feasting.

INSTANT RECALL • A luxe ADELAIDE restaurant and bar invokes a sense of DÉJÀ VU, taking design INSPIRATION from the look and feel of CLASSIC New York dining establishments, with a dash of Wolf of Wall Street thrown in for GOOD MEASURE.

MAURICE TERZINI • The ACCLAIMED restaurateur behind the A-LIST Icebergs Dining Room and Bar and the newly minted Belongil Beach Italian Food in BYRON BAY talks about his past life as a PUNK, living in Bondi and discovering his CULINARY roots through travel.

The 5 awesome things to do in Gippsland you might not know about • Offering an alluring combination of a seaside, mountain and COUNTRYSIDE ESCAPE rolled into one, GIPPSLAND is a DESTINATION you’ll want to keep returning to. Here are five of the region’s most scenic spots and best places to stay.

A veritable feast • In the HISTORIC CENTRE of Canberra, a SOPHISTICATED dining hall and scattering of bars are breathing NEW LIFE and flavours into iconic buildings and forgotten LANEWAYS, as local Christine Aldred DISCOVERS.

WHAT’S ON • From FESTIVALS and triennials to scintillating CIRCUS and sartorial CELEBRATIONS, and to movies UNDER THE STARS, add these cultural EVENTS to your agenda.

PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR • A celebrated DESIGNER, responsible for the look of one of the country’s most STYLISH HOTELS, shares stories and SECRETS of LIVING a five-star life surrounded by PATTERN and COLOUR.

THE OUTBACK • The great Australian outback TAKES AS FACT that you’ll be back. That once you STRIDE OUT into this sunburnt country and see it in the RIGHT LIGHT, you will love its FRAYED EDGES, its roads that run like RIBBONS sewn into the Earth, and, of course, its CHARACTERS, which are its main currency.

OUT THERE EVENTS • A roster of COLOURFUL cultural events hosted in the beating heart of Australia provides a PRISM through which to view the VIBRANCY of the outback.

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