Australian Travel Sights

No matter what corner of Australia your planning on visiting our Australian Travel Sights section can provide more information on the primary areas of interest to the tourist  in each state.

View a basic introduction to each state and each region with the best travel sights in each area. 

Australia is the only country that has a whole continent to itself.

World famous for its natural wonders, incredible travel sights and wide open spaces (beaches, deserts and "the bush" or "the Outback"), Australia is ironically one of the world's most highly urbanised countries and is well known for the cosmopolitan attractions of its globally significant cities, such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and the Australian capital city Canberra.

Australia is also a major tourist destination with some of the worlds leading travel sights, and is one of the world's wealthiest countries. The country is renowned worldwide for its vast, untouched landscape and its unique culture.

Australia is mostly arid and semi-arid: the center is desert and much agricultural land is poor quality by the standards of continents with richer soil.

The south east is temperate and the north tropical. Australia was massively deforested for agricultural purposes: forest areas survive in extensive national parks and some other areas.

One thing to keep in mind when you are travelling to Australia from the northern hemisphere is as Australia is in the southern hemisphere, the timing of the seasons is reversed with respect to Europe and North America.

In other words, June-September is winter in Australia while December-March is summer. So Christmas actually falls in the summer in Australia, instead of in winter like in North America or Europe.

Australian flora and fauna is essentially unique to the island continent, the result of having been isolated from the rest of the world for millions of years.

Amongst Australian animals are a large group of marsupials (mammals with a pouch) and monotremes (mammals that lay eggs!) Just some of the animal icons of Australia are the kangaroo (national symbol) and the koala. A visit to Australia wouldn't be complete without taking the chance to see some of these animals in their natural environment.