Pilot Guides: Destination Northern Australia
Pilot Guides: Destination Northern Australia
As seen on TV and formally known as Lonely Planet the Pilot Guides are undoubtedly champions of the travel world.
Australia is the oldest continent in the world and was first inhabited 50,000 years ago. Only 17 million people live in this vast country the size of mainland USA!
Traveller Ian Wright explores Outback Australia, one of the most sparse and rugged landscapes on earth, covering three quarters of Australia but with only 10% of its population; meanwhile Megan McCormick visits Queensland, the sun-shiniest state, home of the oldest rainforest on the planet, and bordered by the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism.
Along the way
- Attend the Barunga Aboriginal festival in Katherine
- Admire Uluru, or Ayres Rock, for more than 80 000 years a highly sacred site to the Aboriginal people
- Camp on Fraser Island, the world's biggest sand island, surrounded by man eating sharks but home to beautiful fresh water lakes
- Watch for the alligators, hunt the kangaroo, and see dingoes and koalas
- Dive among the colourful corals and amazing wildlife of the Great Barrier Reef
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