Kayaking,
sailing, surfing, snorkeling and diving
are perfect in Australia's lakes,
rivers, beaches, and reefs. For those
who have head for heights, Australia
has a lot of centres offering balloon
ride, helicopter flight, bungee jump
or sky dive. If you have a thrill
for speed, Australia provides plenty
of excitement: everything from flying
a jet fighter (complete with combat
kit) to driving a rally car. Zip across
Sydney Harbour in a high-speed jet
boat, hire a Harley or catch the action
in some of the world's fastest drag
bike racing events. Take to the air
as you desire, Australia's wide-open
skies offer plenty of space to parasail
over aquamarine seas. Bungee jumps,
paraglide, skydive or view wildlife
at dawn from the serenity of a hot-air
balloon. In Australia, gliding is
highly popular and helicopters run
luxury adventure safaris as well as
joyrides. Australia's huge coastline
provides countless beaches, coves
and ports to keep surfers and marine
enthusiasts happy all year round.
Diversions include Whitewater River
rafting through tropical rainforests
and canoeing through the Northern
Territory's tranquil and majestic
Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge.
Australia offers rugged high country
to explore by four-wheel drive or
mountain bike, dramatic ravines to
abseil, slopes to ski and some of
the world's most extensive cave systems.
Visitors can try skiing at the country's
first ski club founded in the Snowy
Mountains in 1870 - two years before
the first clubs in the US.
If you have a thrill
for speed, Australia provides plenty
of excitement: everything from flying
a jet fighter (complete with combat
kit) to driving a rally car. Travelers
can zip across Sydney Harbour in a
high-speed jet boat, hire a Harley
or catch the action in some of the
world's fastest drag bike racing activities.
Watching rally driving on the TV
is one thing, having a go yourself
is quite another. Bombing along a
dirt track at high speed and sliding
round slippery corners provides a
huge buzz. Sydney Harbour will be
the same after you have zipped across
it in a high-speed jet boat. It can
be experienced at high speed adrenalin
and the magnificent
views of Sydney all at the same
time. The awesome throb of Harley
Davidson motorbikes echoes through
the streets of Alice Springs, the
environs of Canberra and along
the Great Ocean Touring Route. You
can hire the bikes or ride pillion.
From Australia's shimmering Red Centre,
natural wonders extend to the coast
in every direction and the best way
to visit them is often by four-wheel
drive; perhaps hire one or choose
from a range of tours.
Australia's wide-open
skies offer plenty of space to parasail
over aquamarine seas. Bungee jump,
paraglide, skydive or view wildlife
at dawn from the serenity of a hot-air
balloon. Gliding is highly popular
and helicopters run luxury adventure
safaris as well as joyrides. For the
dedicated walker, there are a number
of classic, long distance trails,
which pass through some of the country’s
most fabulous natural scenery.
Another pastime in Australia that
every visitor experience is bushwalking.
You can walk into remote spots &
go camping for days without seeing
other another soul, you can walk off
lunch long along a well-manicured
path. For a more thrilling adventure,
follow a rope over a cliff and control
your descent into pristine rainforest
90 metres below or conquer the steep
slopes by bike.
Abseiling, rockclimbing and mountain
biking are sports that give a
new meaning to the word adrenalin.
If it's not enough to explore Australia
on land and underwater, then it’s
time to take to the air. Jump from
a plane, float in a balloon, or take
a ride in a helicopter or fighter
plane - the possibilities are limited
only by your budget and your bravery.
Tackling Australia's wild places
by camel is in a class of its own,
whether the backdrop happens to be
a crystal clear water beaches or the
scorched scenery of the outback, a
world away from traffic and crowds.
Australia is honeycombed with splendid
caves - some famous, others unexplored.
Jenolan Caves out of Sydney is the
oldest developed cave system. Naracoorte
Caves in South Australia are renowned
for fossils.
Australia's huge coastline
provides enough beaches, coves and
ports to keep surfers and marine enthusiasts
happy all year round. Diversions include
whitewater river rafting through tropical
rainforests and canoeing through the
Northern Territory's tranquil and
majestic Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge.
If you don’t mind getting your
feet wet, here are some activities
that allow you to enjoy Australia’s
rivers and surrounding scenery. Want
to learn surfing?
Australia offers plenty of moderate
waves for practice. Australia has
dominated world surfling for three
decades. In Australia, surfing is
a way of life.
Now, if you’re into sailing,
you’ve come to the right destination.
Whether you are an experienced “old
salt” or prefer to sit back
& let the crew do the work it’s
almost impossible to visit Australia
without wanting to get out on the
water. Glide smoothly across cyrstal
clear lakes and paddle the Northern
Territory's astonishing Nitmiluk (Katherine)
Gorge.
Explore the wetlands of the great
Murray River. Experience the bliss
while kayaking at the calm waters
around the Great Barrier Reef to Western
Asutrali's Ningaloo Reef. Try underwater
photography or explore shipwrecks
which dive schools teach you the know-hows.
Ski and snowboard in Australia
starts from around mid-June and ends
during the southern hemisphere's winter
in October. A year-round appeal to
the Snowy
Mountains is added by legendary
fishing and bushwalking which is easily
reached from Sydney or Melbourne.
It's the only part of the Australian
mainland cold enough for skiable snow
to form. Towering ghost gums and mountain
ash, icy streams, the glimpse of a
hardy wombat - skiing in Australia
has its own charm. Skiers and snowboarders
revel in snow and apres-ski fun from
June to October.
From June to October, Australia's
most popular skiing area caters for
downhill and cross-country skiing,
snowboarding, and fun. The ski resorts
of Thredbo, Perisher Blue, Charlotte
Pass and Selwyn Snowfields, each have
their own character, and cater for
beginners as well as the most experienced.
Mt Hotham offers skiing for everyone
from beginners to the very advanced.
Some fabulous cross-country trails
lead off across the hauntingly beautiful
expanses of the Bogong Plains, even
as far as more ski fields at Falls
Creek.
There are plenty of places to stay
and you'll always find freshly-caught
trout on the menu. An all-seasons
park, Mount Buffalo has sheer cliffs
and waterfalls, imposing granite tors,
snow gums and stunning wildflowers.
The 31,000 hectare park contains sub-alpine
vegetation and fauna. Most famous
for snow skiing, the area has a wide
variety of other attractions and activities.
There is something to do in every
season. In winter, the higher parts
are covered in a blanket of snow and
ice, a paradise for downhill and cross-country
skiers.
It
is an elating experience to swim with
the wild dolphins in their natural
environment.
Swimming with the dolphins as
an organized activity is available
in some states in Australia. Several
operators offer dolphin swims, some
within easy driving distance of capital
cities. Terry Howson from Rockingham
Dolphin Cruises has innovated trusting
relationship with a group of 130 bottlenose
dolphins. It enabled swimmers to experience
close contact with these wonderful
aquatic mammals. Play with dolphins
on the swimming experience of a lifetime
in the pristine waters of Baird Bay
on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula
in South Australia. In Western Australia,
a remote area called Monkey Mia, is
famous as one of the very few places
on earth where dolphins mingle with
humans. A separate section of the
beach allows visitors to swim freely
among the dolphins. In Porth Philip
Bay, Dolphin watching is a major visitor
draw card with about 150 bottlenose
dolphins living in the bay. There
are also tour operators at Sorrento
and Queenscliff offering dolphin-watch
cruises and the opportunity to swim
with the mammals.
Dedicated to dolphin research is
the 'centre' offers a chance to swim
with the bottlenose dolphins of Bunbury's
Koombana Bay. They provide boat tours
that last two hours and masks, snorkels,
fins and wetsuits and are easily accessible
from Perth, near Dolphin Encounters
Mandurah which offers swimming with
wild dolphins. Profits help the local
Dolphin Rescue Service. Swims operate
between November and May for anyone
aged nine or over.
There
are a lot of Aboriginal owned and
operated enterprises that help visitors
explore their dramatically unique
world. Australia's
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples have an enormously
wide and diversed culture that traces
its roots back at least 40,000 years
- one of the longest of any society
on the planet. On the outskirts of
Cairns, the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural
Park is a multi-media experience that
uses live theatre, music and holograms
to create a stimulating depiction
of traditional Aboriginal life. Sydney-based
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal
professional company that stages productions
based on contemporary Aboriginal social
themes, often to critical applause.
Based in the Murray River town of
Wentworth, Harry Nanya Outback Cultural
Tours operates Aboriginal-led tours
of the Willandra Lakes and the Flinders
Ranges, some of Australia's oldest
inhabited sites. Home to seven fascinating
cultural attractions in the Red Centre,
the Alice Springs Cultural Precinct
offers an Aboriginal perspective on
visual arts, natural history, culture
and European settlement.
Owned and operated by the Pwerte
Marnte Marnte Aboriginal Corporation,
Aboriginal Desert Discovery Tours
offers a unique perspective on the
Alice Springs region through its various
tours. Tiwi Tours offers a thrilling
experience - the chance to visit the
Tiwi people of Bathurst and Melville
Islands, north of Darwin, for a day
of Aboriginal culture and hands-on
activities.Uluru (Ayers Rock) is a
potent spiritual force to the Aboriginal
people of Central Australia, and an
Anangu Tour will introduce you to
some of the mystery and magic of Australia's
outback icon.
Check
out quality hotels and accommodation fit
to your taste and budget!
It
is an elating experience to swim with
the wild dolphins in their natural
environment.