Mar 21st, 2013 at 8:00AM: The Northern Territory of Australia is inviting travelers to explore the Outback Your Way with limited-time promotions designed to make it easier and more affordable than ever to visit that famous part of the world. The promotions include a variety of great options such as free flights, discounted accommodations and other upgrades designed to enhance the experience.
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Australia Invites You To Do The Outback Your Way
Mar 21st, 2013 at 8:00AM: The Northern Territory of Australia is inviting travelers to explore the Outback Your Way with limited-time promotions designed to make it easier and more affordable than ever to visit that famous part of the world. The promotions include a variety of great options such as free flights, discounted accommodations and other upgrades designed to enhance the experience.
The Outback Your Way program ...Quirky Tour Option: The Flying Outback Pub Crawl
Aug 8th, 2012 at 2:00PM: If you're interested in exploring South Australia's Outback in an unusual way, now is your chance. Goin' Off Safaris is offering a Flying Outback Pub Crawl where visitors will fly around the Outback in a turbo prop plane stopping at local pubs.
The quirky pub crawl leaves out of Adelaide, and takes you through many different areas of the Outback. Along with drinking Cooper's Ale, you'll also ...Crocodile Dundee pub is for sale
Oct 13th, 2010 at 9:00AM: Want to buy a piece of movie history? Wrestle crocodiles and relive the 1980s? Now you can, because the Walkabout Creek Hotel, location of some of the most memorable scenes from the 1986 hit film Crocodile Dundee, is up for sale.
Located in the small town of McKinlay in Queensland, northeast Australia, it's on the Matilda Highway and gets good business from both Australians and tourists. It was ...Weekend travel media top five
Jul 12th, 2010 at 8:30AM: This weekend's most interesting travel stories include a look at Egypt's seldom explored coast west of Alexandria, a long weekend guide to Singapore, a travel guide to solar eclipse runs, a profile of Boracay, the Philippines' popular holiday island, and a 12-day Great Australian Aircruise.
1. In the Guardian, Belinda Jackson takes a road trip from Alexandria to Marsa Matruh and on to the ...Daily Pampering: "Rough it" in a luxury tent with Thomas Keneally
Jun 22nd, 2010 at 4:00PM:
Renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally (best known for Schindler's Ark, which served as the basis for a little movie called Schindler's List) is heading to Longitude 131, a luxury tented camp near Uluru July 9-11, and you can be among the lucky few who get to meet him and share stories around the (luxury) campfire.
Frontiers Elegant Journeys has put this unique experience together, to be ...Australians travel 150 miles across the Outback for beer
Jun 6th, 2010 at 8:00AM: How far would you be willing to travel for a beer? If you're anything like the residents of Marble Bar, located in Western Australia's Outback, the answer is "pretty far".
According to the Daily Mail the Ironclad Hotel, which was located in Marble Bar, closed down last month, taking the town's only pub with it. As a result, many of the locals have been making the 150-mile round trip journey to ...Outback Australia: Big Fun in Little Alice
Oct 12th, 2009 at 10:30AM:
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It's rare that a town with a population under 30,000 is known by everyone in a country as big as Australia. But Alice Springs is no ordinary town. It's defined less by its size and more by its location and quirky nature. Known colloquially as just Alice, the town is ...Outback Australia: Mindil Beach Sunset Market
Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:30AM:
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Before departing for the Northern Territory, I was discussing my trip with some Aussie friends. When they heard that I was going to Darwin, they raved about two things: the food and the Mindil Beach Sunset Markets. Darwin is a melting pot of Southeast Asian and ...Crazy dust storm covers Sydney in red haze
Sep 23rd, 2009 at 3:30PM: Residents and tourists in Sydney, Australia, might be feeling as though they been transported to Mars, and in fact, a glance around at the city covered in red dust against a red-orange sky does bring to mind images of what a colony on the red planet would look like. Despite its other-worldly appearance, the haze that converged on Sydney yesterday is earth-bound, composed of red dust from the ...Australian wilderness survivor story gets a soap opera style twist
Jul 27th, 2009 at 2:00PM: What was supposed to be a story of personal endurance and an amazing rescue, has slowly turned into a nasty family battle revolving around a lot of money. When 19 year old backpacker Jamie Neale was found after 12 days in the Australian wild, the photos showing Mr. Neale reunited with his father probably brought a huge smile to the millions of people following the story. The whole thing has now ...Across Austraila by train
Jul 26th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Australia's transcontinental railroad, affectionately referred to as "The Ghan", has a long and storied history. In fact, on the 4th of August, it will celebrate the beginning of its 80th year of service as an 1850 mile north-south route running between Darwin and Adelaide. As the Ghan approaches this milestone anniversary, Australian newspaper The Age, hops the train to see how it is adapting to ...World's Longest Golf Course is Planned for Australian Desert
Sep 23rd, 2007 at 7:22PM: Under the glaring desert sun, the Australian outback consists of hundreds of thousands of kilometers of empty space, which, according to the Australian government, makes it the ideal spot for the world longest golf course. The Nullarbor Plain is set to see construction of the 18-hole golf course, which will stretch across 1,200 km (750 mi.) Wow. All I have to say is, if you golf there, you'd ...Word for the Travel Wise (09/11/06)
Sep 11th, 2006 at 8:00PM: The Great Australian Outback Cattle Drive is just around the corner - that's if you consider May 2007 nearby. This should be enough time to plan if you wish to take part in rounding up 500 head of cattle, taking them through the outback by day and sleeping by a cozy, warm, crackling campfire at night. The four nights five day cattle drive tours take place May 5 - June 10, 2007. See details on ...
