Sydney
Sydney is Australia's biggest, oldest and most exciting city - and
one of the great seaports of the world. It is also the nation's most
popular tourist destination.
Founded just over 200 years ago as a British penal settlement, Sydney
has grown rapidly to become a glamorous international city boasting the
best the world has to offer. The city now embraces a rich multicultural
community that totals almost four million people.
Sydney, the capital of the Australian State of New South Wales, is a
safe, fresh, friendly destination with a warm, sunny climate that makes
a visit perfect in any season. In fact, at least 240 days of sunshine a
year means your visit will be as bright as the sparkling, ever-visible
harbour.
Sydney's magnificent harbour is clearly the focal point of Sydney's
appeal and the relaxed, outdoor lifestyle of its fortunate residents.
Each day and night, visitors and residents alike board cruise boats,
commuter ferries, and sailing boats to enjoy the harbour's incredible
beauty and the unparalleled views of two of the world's most famous
attractions - the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is a diverse and cosmopolitan city .The town is home to
some of Australia's biggest shopping complexes and sophisticated
boutiques, glorious food halls and elegant restaurants, with a wide
range of ethnic foods being readily available.
It is regarded as one of the cultural, culinary, sporting and shopping
capitals of Australia with a great selection of events and festivals to
entertain locals and visitors.
A short drive out of the city is the Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne's
summer playground and the Dandenongs, which locals claim has "the very
best nature has to offer".
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Brisbane
The capital of Queensland is the third largest city in Australia and
the gateway to the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. The population of 1.3
million is spread from the shores of Moreton Bay in the east up to the
Brisbane River Valley to the foothills of the D'Aguilar Range.
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Gold Coast
A sweeping 70km coastline offers a stretch of patrolled surf beaches
that are among the best in the world. Almost every Australian is
familiar with the white sands of Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh
Heads and Coollangatta. The beachfront esplanades of these vibrant
centres extend a warm welcome to visitors to sit back and relax, soak up
the fun and taste the excitement of Australia's most popular holiday
playground.
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Sunshine Coast
Is peaceful, its beautiful, its natural, its the Sunshine Coast, one
hours drive north of Brisbane. This stretch of coast with its pristine
beaches, lush rainforests and national parks is surely a paradise.
Visit the breathtaking Glasshouse Mountains, travel by four wheel drive
to Fraser Island , the largest sand island in the world, fossick for
gold at Gympie or just relax and revitalize on the beach at the resort
town of Noosa.
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Canberra
Canberra is located in the Australian Capital Territory, ACT with a
population of nearly 300 000 is Australia's capital and only major
inland city. It is unique in having every detail of it's construction
planned from the beginning, then being built halfway between Sydney and
Melbourne after a dispute over which would become the nations capital.
The nerve centre of Australian national government, is just a three hour
drive or a 45-minute flight south-west of Sydney. Set in a broad valley
in the southern tablelands of New South Wales, Canberra is a
well-planned lakeside city of parklands, impressive restaurants,
beautiful bush land and leafy suburbs. Many of the public buildings
display some of Australia's most innovative architecture including those
housing our major, and most impressive, national attractions. Canberra
is only 1 and 1/2 hour drive from the beautiful Snowy Mountains, where
you can hike, horse ride, mountain bike, ski, snowboard and enjoy the
clean, crisp mountain air and surrounding towns.
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Adelaide
Adelaide is a city of one million plus people situated on the
Adelaide plains, a flat, fertile corridor of land between Gulf St
Vincent and the arc of the Mount Lofty Ranges. As capital of the
Festival State, Adelaide plays host to a variety of festivals it also
has some of country's finest restaurants and produces a lion's share of
the nations wine.
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Perth
Perth, one of the most isolated cities in the world, has all modern
conveniences and is a stunning place for a summer or winter holiday.
With the sun always shining, white sandy beaches and a cosmopolitan
atmosphere there is always something to see and do in Perth , Western
Australia.
Get away from it all at Rottnest Island, the home of the Quokka, or head
down to Fremantle, a town rich in marine history with over 150 buildings
classified by the National Trust.
The Avon Valley is home to a spectacular variety of water fowl and hold
a spectacular white water race - The Avon Descent in August. North of
Perth the coastline boasts some of the most popular recreation areas in
Western Australia with excellent snorkeling, fishing and surfing.
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Hobart
The city of Hobart is unique offering all the amenities of a
thriving city only minutes from a wide variety of natural beauties.
Situated on the west bank of the Derwent River the city in many ways
retains the flavour of a small town with a leisurely pace and a
population of 160 000. One of the most beautiful capitals in the world,
Hobart is set under the towering peak of Mount Wellington and has a deep
water port rivaling Sydney Harbour.
Founded in1804 by Colonel David Collins, Hobart is the second oldest
city in Australia. It grew out of the first settlement on the island at
Risdon Cove, eight kilometers up river, which was founded in 1803 and
abandoned five months later for the present site of Hobart. Ridson Cove
remains today much as it was 190 years ago and is an unique tourist
attraction.
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Darwin
Darwin is the bustling tropical capital of the Northern Territory.
The city clusters around the beaches of one of Australia's finest
harbours Darwin Harbour, the playground of dolphins sea snakes, turtles
and cruising yachts.
Visitors to Darwin enjoy a relaxed, tropical lifestyle, with wonderful
sunsets, city street shaded by palms, bamboo, mango trees and masses of
flowering tropical shrubs like the fragrant frangipani and the
iridescent blooms of the bougainvillea.
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