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Where to go

Ten regions and the harbour city most journeys start in. Each one has a right season, and most need at least three nights to be worth the flight. Choose a month to see which are in season.

SydneyRed CentreTop EndKimberleyReef and the DaintreeTasmaniaGreat Ocean RoadSouth AustraliaNingalooMargaret River
The Sydney Opera House sails glow pink in evening light across choppy harbour water

New South Wales

Sydney

A harbour city for the first and last nights.

Right season: Mar to May

Uluru rises above green desert scrub under a pink and blue twilight sky with a full moon

Northern Territory

The Red Centre

Uluru, Kata Tjuta and the long red ranges west of Alice Springs.

Right season: May to Sep

A calm plunge pool with a sandy edge reflects a streaked sandstone escarpment and green woodland in Kakadu

Northern Territory

The Top End

Kakadu in the dry: escarpment, rock art and floodplain.

Right season: May to Aug

Orange and black banded beehive domes of the Bungle Bungle Range line a dry creek bed with spinifex in Purnululu

Western Australia

The Kimberley

Fly over the Bungle Bungles first. Walk into them the next morning.

Right season: May to Aug

Cradle Mountain glowing orange at sunrise above the Dove Lake boatshed, its peaks mirrored in the still lake

Tasmania

Tasmania

Freycinet. February. A kayak, then oysters at the farm gate.

Right season: Dec to Mar

Limestone stacks of the Twelve Apostles rising from white surf beside towering golden cliffs under a moody sky

Victoria

Great Ocean Road

Melbourne's tables, then the coast road west.

Right season: Nov to Mar

The wind-sculpted granite of Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, perched above a deep blue Southern Ocean

South Australia

South Australia

A winemaker's table, then an island of sea lions.

Right season: Sep to Nov

Aerial view of Ningaloo's turquoise lagoon and reef beside a pale sandy coastline, with a small boat on the water

Western Australia

Ningaloo

Ningaloo when the whale sharks come in.

Right season: Apr to Jul

Sugarloaf Rock silhouetted against an orange sunset sky, with waves washing over the granite shore near Cape Naturaliste

Western Australia

Margaret River

Karri forest, cold surf and the winemaker who opens the barrel hall.

Right season: Oct to Apr

Late-afternoon light turns a line of red sandstone ranges deep orange behind a lone dark-leaved desert tree and golden spinifex near Kings Canyon

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