Top Experience in Australia

Australia is one of the most interesting countries to visit, offering a beautiful melange of natural and man-made wonders including, Great Barrier Reef, Glass House Mountains, SydneyOpera House and Powerhouse Museum, to mention a few. The diverse flora and fauna of the region and beautiful beaches attract a lot of naturalists and holidaymakers from far and near. Listed below are a few attractions of Australia that have made into our shortlist:

The Overland Track

The Overland Track is Australia's most famous multi-day trek, offering a magnificent traverse of the world heritage wilderness. The 70 km track winds its way through a sub-alpine landscape of soaring dolerite peaks, glacial lakes, heathland, tall forests and waterfalls. The Overland Track is an exceptional trek and also offers access to the peaks and wilderness beyond. The Tasmanian parks and wildlife limit the number of trekkers to control the impact, a maximum of 60 trekkers per day are allowed and Overland Track Permits cost $120 per person and should be booked well in advance. Many trekkers choose to join a guided bushwalk that provides food, equipment and safety in this rugged environment.

Glow Worm Caves

Located in the caves of Queensland's National Parks, hide thousands of nature's most unusual if not beautiful creatures; the glow worm. The glow worm's spectacular ability to produce strings of glowing pearls is used as a creative way to attract prey.

Most visitors, as they walk into the cave, feel like they are standing in the Milky Way. Looking closer, the stars began to wiggle and grow. In reality, thousands of glow worms were going about their daily routine, using their light to produce bait for their food. As a bonus, they happen to create an enchanting and organic display. Delightful and strange, it certainly is a sight you must see to believe.

Snorkeling around and under Lizard Island

Not usually a coral enthusiast, I usually prefer meeting large fishes when I'm snorkeling. I have to say that I was overwhelmed by the colourful and hugely varied array of coral to be found around Lizard Island on its fringed reef lagoon and outer reefs. This is truly the location that spawned the phrase coral garden, that's exactly what it looks like, coral of all shapes and sizes both hard and soft, covering every surface save the sandy bottom, you can also see all the fishes from Finding Nemo. Here you can snorkel almost straight off the beach and most of the island's coastline is beaches. Further out there is still the possibility of seeing some larger fish, wrasse and red bass as well as the potato cod that are favourites with visiting divers. Moreover, you can also see a white tip reef shark, an eel or manta ray. One of the main attractions of Lizard Island is the Giant Clam Garden that has impressively healthy clams, which are supposedly 150 years old. For divers the main attraction will be Cod Hole.

There are good spots all around the Great Barrier Reef, but for a good variety of marine life, large and small fish, and corals Lizard Island is probably one of the best spots. The resort on the island is exclusive but you can camp in the national park, just remember to bring your own supplies, this isn't somewhere you can pop out to the shops. It's almost too obvious to include, but there are only a few people who can stay in the resort so the numbers are kept to a reasonable roar. Good for beginners, my advice would be to get away from the crowds and the guides and do some exploring. You can't really go wrong in the water here

Surf Snapper Rocks (Superbank)

Nicknamed Superbank, this is a point/beach break wave with a sandy bottom. It can link through Greenmount beach, possibly Australia's best beach break wave (very crowded), which has a right-hand wave and is strictly for advanced surfers only. Good all year round with best surfing on waves up to 6 ft, but it can have a strong sweep when waves get over 4 ft. Minimum water temperature is 18 degrees.

Sydney Opera House

Significantly more graceful and elegant than the rest of Sydney, the Opera House is beautiful from all angles, and worth looking at from all angles as well. Coming into Circular Quay on the ferry shows the Opera House off to its best. Its custom built tiles have an iridescent look in the morning and evening light, and the rest of the cut glass harbour and the city behind complement the building perfectly, making it look a thousand times more attractive than anything else around (except for Sydney's great natural asset—the harbour).

The Opera House interior is more dated than its timeless and pristine exterior. The stark concrete details of the entrance hall were ultra-modern at the time but now look more like a bus station; however, further inside in the performance spaces, the feeling of graceful spacious understatement returns, so don't be too disappointed by your first impression as you enter.

One of the best experiences to have in Sydney is a visit to the Opera Bar under the Opera House concourse—the view, framed by the sailed sides and the less graceful Harbour Bridge, some great live entertainment, and good food and drink make it one of the best experiences in

Whitehaven Beach

Whitehaven Beach is a spectacular, picture-perfect white sand beach. In the competition for the best beach, Whitehaven on Whitsunday Island, has been regularly bandied about. Whitehaven Beach supporters cite the sand, which is pure white silica (which means made up of tiny grains of granite and suitable to be used to create the most precise glass for optical instruments etc.) and very bright in the warm sun, set against 7 kms of clear waters which naturally appear a stunning shade of blue. If your idea of a perfect beach involves having the colours just right you will love Whitehaven Beach. You can walk the beach for over 5 kms, and also camp, swim, snorkel and buff your jewellery in the sand.

The best way to get to Whitehaven Beach is to moor offshore on your yacht and swim to the beach, and find a spot not frequented with day-trippers. Failing that, you need to become one yourself, and there are a number of catamaran and other boat trips from Airlie Beach to Whitehaven Beach.

Hunter Valley

At less than 2 hours drive from Sydney the Hunter Valley has become one of Australia's most visited wine regions. It is also one of the oldest. The buttery Chardonnays and well aging Semillons are the regions most successful wines, and as for reds the region seems to produce big tannin heavy Shirazes. Most of the wineries are in the lower Hunter between Cessnock and Branxton centring around Polkolbin, where the premium vineyards own land, while the upper Hunter has vineyards nestled into the curves of the valley and shaded by thin lines of gum trees along the four rivers that keep the region so green.

The Hunter has always been an important region for Australian wines and many of the most well known spas providing luxury accommodation and hot air balloons full of sightseers are a common sight in the crisp still morning and evening skies.

Glass House Mountains

Brave people put up the routes here in the 60s and 70s and adventure climbers not scared of the big walls still follow them. These old routes aren't particularly well trodden (be careful to check all your bolts) so when you get to the top you'll be admiring the spectacular views of the thick velvet bushland of the southern Sunshine Coast without too much intrusion. Aid climbers will like the bolted overhangs at Beerwah's (the largest mountain in the range) slabs.

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