Culture holidays
This remarkable landscape offers an experience that’s unique in Australia
The remarkable landscape surrounding Far North Queensland’s Bourketown includes wetlands, savannah, and the Gulf of Carpentaria only 25 kilometres away.
- by Julietta Jameson
Yes, you read right: The river that’s officially recognised as a ‘legal person’
New Zealand’s longest navigable river has a personality that changes with every twist and turn.
- by Kerry van der Jagt
The one bargain you must buy when you visit paradise
A precious memento of paradise in Tahiti doesn’t have to cost the earth.
- by Julie Miller
How this tiny quake-hit city transformed into an architectural jewel
If this New Zealand town hadn’t suffered devastating destruction in an earthquake in 1931 it would likely have never become the self-styled art deco tourist attraction that it is now.
- by Anthony Dennis
The 14 most European places that aren’t in Europe (plus five that don’t fit)
Imagine a less crowded Europe, a far cheaper Europe, a more exciting slice of Europe inside a different culture. That’s what these places have to offer.
- by Brian Johnston
Nine must-do highlights of Bergen, Norway
Norway’s scenic second-largest city is flush with glamorous stays, sublime outlooks and charming waterside neighbourhoods.
- by Anthony Dennis
This Tokyo neighbourhood is one of the coolest places you’ll ever visit
With its vintage clothing stores, record shops, hip bars and flea markets, could Shimokitazawa be the coolest neighbourhood in Tokyo?Â
- by Barry Divola
This city botanic garden tour is eye-opening and mouth-watering
Plants used to sew skins, others used to lure animals: a walk in the garden is made a lot more absorbing thanks to a new discovery tour.
- by David Whitley
Fourteen spectacular, must-visit ruins (and five that are utterly boring)
These attractions are time machines that let us step into another world and connect us with our past – or someone else’s.
- by Brian Johnston
One of Japan’s (and the world’s) coolest museums just reopened
Ask any Tokyophiles for their must-do experiences in the Japanese capital, and they will probably cite teamLab amongst them.
- by Julietta Jameson