Fifteen years after Cyclone Yasi, the region's $21.5 million makeover is finally complete. Elle Halliwell discovers the best way to appreciate it is to arrive alone, underprepared, and ask the locals.
I arrived in Mission Beach the way I tackle most things in life; underprepared but casually confident it’ll all work out.
Having spent the…
Destinations
Immersive travel for curious women. Discover the destinations and stories that awaken your wanderlust.
In today’s always-on, supercharged digital environment, it’s never felt more empowering to take a step back from it all and enjoy a truly immersive wellness escape, reconnecting with nature, like-minded communities and yourself. From transformative women's gatherings to immersive festivals celebrating creativity, music and holistic wellbeing, these events offer the perfect opportunity to stop, take…
As a young girl, I was fascinated by ancient Chinese paintings — depictions of soaring, craggy mountains with peaks looming high above stylised clouds. To my less-travelled self, it was an unimaginable vision. So when a recent opportunity arose to visit Shanghai, I set about discovering this eerily mystical place etched in my child's mind.…
There are many fabulous cities to visit, slowly explore, and rest in. Hong Kong, my friends, is not all this.
Hong Kong doesn’t gently welcome you in, she grabs you by the hand, pops you on a tram, feeds you (a lot), points you towards a ferry, and by 9 pm she sticks you in…
My mother is a graduate of the school of tough love. A migrant from the warn-torn Middle East to a Western world where you can order your milk through a mobile app, she understood both the opportunities that Australia provided. And, its challenges. Perhaps that’s why she is so disciplined. So firm. And, so very…
If my husband’s told me once, he’s told me a million times: he used to take his holidays as a child in Menton, a town in the south of France, next to the Italian border.
“What’s so great about it?” I asked when he began to argue his case for a return there.
“It has…
It's hard to take a bad photo in Tassie. Everywhere you look, there is a cinematic masterpiece. Dark rivers reflecting rainforest, moss so green it's almost fluorescent, waterfalls surrounded by centuries-old trees, wet roads glowing under neon signs, and whiskey tasting beside an open fire, deemed completely reasonable behaviour long before the sun has gone…
If you’ve ever looked at an airport stopover and thought "well, that’s basically a lost day of my travel," then Singapore would like a word.
The Lion City isn’t the kind of destination where you pace and blow $356 on Duty Free lip gloss, before eating questionable sandwiches, and double checking where you last put…
Ricardo Madias-Farinha shares Madeira’s most exciting luxury resorts with a select group of Australian media, writes Cathy Wagstaff
Scenic aerial shot of a coastal village in Funchal, Madeira, surrounded by cliffs and ocean. Photo by Matej Simko
As demand for meaningful multi-generational travel continues to surge, Madeira is quietly emerging as one of Europe’s most compelling…
Our journey began at the bottom of the world. While sheltering from fierce Patagonian winds at Torres del Paine’s Hotel Lago Grey, I found myself leafing through a book about the region. It was there I first read about the extraordinary legacy of the late Doug Tompkins and his wife Kris.
The timing felt…
