All Destinations

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system on Earth — visible from space and home to an incredible diversity of marine life. Snorkeling and diving among the coral gardens, manta rays, and sea turtles is unforgettable. Cairns and Airlie Beach are the main gateway towns, and the Whitsunday Islands offer stunning white sand beaches alongside the reef.

The fjord Rudyard Kipling called the eighth wonder of the world — a 15-km arm of the Tasman Sea cut into Fiordland's granite, with Mitre Peak rising 1,692 m straight out of the water and Stirling Falls plunging 151 m off the cliff. It rains 200+ days a year and that's the point: every storm makes hundreds of temporary waterfalls. There's effectively no town, two cruise piers, one lodge, and a road in from Te Anau that closes for avalanche control most winters.

A 348-metre sandstone monolith (taller than the Eiffel Tower) rising from the Northern Territory's Red Centre — sacred to the Aṉangu Traditional Owners who have inhabited the area for at least 30,000 years, dual UNESCO listed for both natural and cultural significance, and jointly managed by the Aṉangu and Parks Australia under one of the world's most successful Indigenous co-management arrangements. Climbing the rock was permanently banned in 2019 out of respect for Aṉangu beliefs; the 10.6 km base walk, the Mala ranger talk, and the Mutitjulu waterhole are the proper ways to engage with the site. Pair Uluru with Kata Tjuta (36 sandstone domes 30 km west, with the Valley of the Winds walk that many consider more dramatic than Uluru itself) and Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation, and the desert evening dining experiences (Sounds of Silence, Tali Wiru) — the Red Centre delivers the most spiritually charged landscape in Australia.