AllWays Traveller Features

The largest sand island in the world stretches 122 kilometres along the eastern coast of Australia. Its immense sand dunes are part of the longest and most complete age sequence of coastal dune systems on the planet. Located approximately 300 kilometres north of the Queensland state capital, Brisbane, the island now called K'gari was formerly known...

In a world where everyday life sometimes seems more difficult than it should be, any opportunity to escape from the madness, if only briefly, is usually seized upon eagerly. One such opportunity lies among the emerald-green pastures of New Zealand's Waikato region, at a place where the boundary between imagination and reality quietly disappears. Lo...

I'm on a visit to Queensland's Sunshine Coast, a major drawcard for tourism bringing in around 3.5 million visitors a year to its mainly outdoor attractions. Located in the south-east of Australia's so-called sunshine state, it enjoys a pleasant subtropical climate. A train ride from my hometown of Bowral gets me to Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Interna...

IN OUR RENTAL CAR WE HAD DRIVEN NEARLY 200 KILOMETRES south from Whitianga on New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, and now the traffic was surprisingly heavy on our approach to Tauranga. Once in the town all we had to do was find Second Avenue, where our accommodation Tauranga on the Waterfront was situated at Number One. This proved to be harder th...

Asked to name a French territory in the Pacific, most people will opt for Tahiti and the islands of French Polynesia. But if, like me, you live in Australia you'll probably say New Caledonia. With a flight time of just under three hours from Sydney and only two hours from Brisbane, New Caledonia is practically on our doorstep, offering a taste of F...

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 70kms (43.5 miles) towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the North, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to t...