Top 5 Australian Destinations that you must visit

A Holiday doesn’t always mean a trip to an exotic beach named Phi Phi or a mountain there in the Himalayas or the white Alps, there are so many wonderful places in Australia that you might have not visited yet, try your back yard, before leaving off for foreign lands.

Top 10 destinations, popular among Aussies and tourists alike, in no specific order of merit would be

1.Uluru, Northern Territory

Uluru, or Ayers Rock, is a massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s Red Centre desert.

It’s sacred to indigenous Australians and has its spiritual aura and its believed age of 700 million year add to that mysticism about this  magnificent red rock.

It’s within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, which also encompasses the 36 red-rock domes of the Kata Tjuta (colloquially “The Olgas”) formation.

This is a place to be, the champagne coloured sunsets, the camel rides and that red rock, nothing could be better than an escape to this outback destination, the Ayers Rock Resort offers accommodations of all types of your taste and budget, so if you are planning a quick holiday, and never been to Uluru, be there.

2. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system, this World Heritage site comprising of 2,900 individual coral reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres, is the place to be if you want to experience a magical under water world and swim with dolphins and turtles and shoals of tropical fishes. Stay at Cairns or Port Douglas for easy access to the reefs.

3. The Kimberley, Western Australia

The Kimberley is Western Australia’s sparsely settled northern region. It’s wild, beautiful, rugged and uninhabited for miles after miles, rugged mountains, dramatic gorges, outback desert and isolated coastal areas, the Windjana Gorge National has towering limestone cliff wall and cascades, with pools where fresh water crocodiles gather, you’d also find isolated pools safely tucked away from the crocs, just for you to swim.

Stay in coastal Broome or outback Kununurra.

4. The Whitsundays, Queensland

The 74 Whitsunday Islands that lie between the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef, are your answer to those exotic tropical beaches around Hawaii, Tahiti, Thailand, Phillipines or Bali, if you are more likely to look for a cocktail by the pool kind of a holiday, these are where you should head to now.

5. Kakadu National Park

Kakadu National Park is an enormous, biodiverse nature preserve in Australia’s Northern Territory. With terrain encompassing wetlands, rivers and sandstone escarpments, it’s home to some 2,000 plant species and wildlife from saltwater crocodiles and Flatback turtles to hundreds of bird species. Aboriginal rock-art paintings dating to prehistoric times can be viewed at sites such as Nourlangie, Nanguluwur and Ubirr.