Culture holidays
Peter Jackson put a small town on the map with a thrilling attraction
It’s a region best known for its sauvignon blancs and scenery, but the Oscar-winning director behind The Lord of the Rings has added a very different attraction.
- Jane Richards
After 144 years, the ‘greatest modern building on Earth’ passes a new milestone
Here it is as if architectural modernism never happened, and we kept creating places with joy, natural patterns and a whiff of the sacred.
- Nicholas Boys Smith
- Opinion
- Hawaii
Hotel cleaners wouldn’t let me throw something out. I had to resort to drastic measures
Within hours of arriving in Honolulu, I have enough flowers around my neck to open a small florist.
- Justin Meneguzzi
Australians are flocking to ‘the world’s most important country’ in record numbers
Many parts of this nation have sights to rival anything France or Japan has to offer, but few Australians have ever heard of them. It’s time to change that.
- Brian Johnston
Once-forgotten ghost town is now one of the coolest neighbourhoods in Japan
Just 20 years ago, this part of Osaka was barely known, even to the locals. One man sparked a complete transformation.
- Barry Divola
The country capturing the imagination of travellers like no other
Tourism is hitting record numbers in this southern Mediterranean nation. Hotels are numerous, food is spectacularly good and prices are pleasingly low.
- Sue Williams
You don’t have to fly to Europe to get a culture fix
Tour operators are noting renewed interest in shorter, localised Australian travel.
- Julietta Jameson
The part of Australia so beautiful it defies explanation
In the outback, some secrets remain secret. I come away from it understanding that this part of Australia isn’t a place to be explained. It’s a place to simply be present.
- Julietta Jameson
- Opinion
- My happy place
I’ve never felt more alive than in this astonishing city of the dead
If happiness is defined as “the state of pleasurable contentment of mind” then this ancient city, for all of its horrors and delights, is my unlikely happy place.
- Anthony Dennis
The Hills Hoists are alive in stunning new light installation
This latest light installation from the creator of Uluru’s Field of Light is as mesmerising as the location, at the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers, surrounded by the 40,000-year-old Perry Sandhills.
- Sue Wallace