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From a river cruise<br />
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Great Barrier Reef or<br />
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50 amazing experiences<br />
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trip. Enjoy!<br />
Be inspired to see more of the world. Our Travel Experts have been to all corners<br />
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THE TEAM<br />
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Cassandra Laffey<br />
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Lindsay Saunders<br />
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Kristin Bonner<br />
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Emma Coad<br />
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Luke Wheatley<br />
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the accuracy of information in this magazine, no<br <a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=1"> </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=2"> From a river cruise in France to diving the Great</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=3"> ON THE COVER: TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK, CHI</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=4"> contents 06 Meet our contributors Find out more</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=5"> UK & EUROPE 08 Travel Switzerland by scenic rail</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=6"> AMANDA SALMON, CRUISE PRODUCT STRATEGIST, FLIGHT </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=7"> Sitting atop Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=8"> Travel Switzerland by scenic rail Words: Riley He</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=9"> Bernina Express traverses Poschiavo Valley </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=10"> Asmall mountainous country in the heart of </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=11"> EXPERT TIP You can organise door-t service with </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=12"> One of the best things about travelling Switzerla</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=13"> SWITZERLAND Then there’s Zermatt, a vastly differe</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=14"> 02 Go glamping in the Kimb</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=15"> 04 SET SAIL ON A STATE-OF-THE-ART SHIP Words: Ama</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=16"> LIMB AN CTIVE OLCANO IN VANUATU Words: Luke Hanse</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=17"> PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES & SAM ALDENTON 05 The trip</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=18"> DISCOVER UNTAMED BEAUTY LET US TAKE YOU CLOSER TO</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=19"> 144 GUESTS | 118 STAFF 2 ONBOARD RESTAURANTS | RE</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=20"> 6 </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=21"> 07 VENTURE TO THE SEVENTH CONTINENT IN LUXURY Wo</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=22"> 0 BE A GUEST AT AN INDIAN WEDDING Words: Cassand</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=23"> CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Indian wedding finery; the m</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=24"> FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Nicky dives into the deep blu</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=25"> 12 IT’S BETTER DOWN WHERE IT’S WETTER </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=26"> Arriving at Gladstone Airport, I st</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=27"> love to return during hatching season (from early</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=28"> 1 EXPERT TIP See Norway's thrilling fjords from </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=29"> Stand on the edge of Pulpit Rock in Norway Word</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=30"> TOP TO BOTTOM: A breaching orca; k</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=31"> BEACH YOURSELF IN BORACAY Words: Laura Tic</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=32"> Go scrambling on the Isle of OVER BENS, GLE</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=33"> 16 Skye The craggy Old Man of Storr on Skye. </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=34"> Calling all Oceanauts, Extreme Relaxers, </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=35"> WET AND WILD THRILLS U N F O R G E T TA B L E E X</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=36"> 17 Be wowed restau scene i INTERNATIONA A WORLD-</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=37"> PHOTOS: SUPPLIED When venturing to Asia on a </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=38"> GO CAVING AMID MAYAN RUINS IN BELIZE 18 38 FLIG</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=39"> PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK It’s not easy to get to, bu</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=40"> FLOAT AWAY ON A NILE RIVER CRUISE 19 </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=41"> Starg the la Dark in the Words: Hayley Hirschfeld</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=42"> WATCH THE SUN RISE OVER Angkor Wat GOLDEN HO</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=43"> 21 PHOTO: EMMA RUSSELL TRAVEL IDEAS 43</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=44"> We arrive to Angkor Wat in total darkness, </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=45"> EXPERT TIP PHOTO: EMMA RUSSELL Dawn is one of t</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=46"> 2 FROLIC Royal Caribbean International </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=47"> WE’RE TAKING EUROPE TO THE EDGE® There is no be</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=48"> Trek Torres </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=49"> 23 PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Sunset over the stunning</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=50"> Immerse yourself in France on a Viking river crui</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=51"> PHOTO:RICHARDWANG DELIGHT ALL YOUR SENSES ON A R</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=52"> free Wi-Fi. My spacious stateroom is a comfortabl</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=53"> PHOTOS:KRISTINBONNER&RICHARDWANG From lavender t</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=54"> renowned Beaujolais wine region, north of Lyon, c</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=55"> FRANCE This attention to detail is also ec</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=56"> 5 PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES & SHUTTERSTOCK Deep-di</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=57"> Raw coffee beans on a Columbian coffee plantati</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=58"> SAIL ON A GULET </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=59"> DISCOVER SRI LANKA WILDLIFE OF SRI LANKA 13 DAYS </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=60"> EXPERT TIP Want to see more wildlife in Sri Lanka</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=61"> A leopard in Yala National Park. Safari </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=62"> 9 </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=63"> The Tunnel View outlook 30 has epic views of El C</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=64"> A colleague once told me Yosemite National Park w</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=65"> CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Standing within the Californ</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=66"> 66 FLIGHTCENTRE.COM.AU/TRAVEL-NEWS</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=67"> 3 THE BEGUILING CULTURAL RITUALS OF JAPAN ARE B</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=68"> Japan is an enigma – a thoroughly modern society </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 69" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=69"> gate – the entrance to our next stop, Yasui Konpi</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 70" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=70"> 3S2ilk Road Route Trace the </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=71"> We step back in time here, taking in the ancient </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 72" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=72"> WONDER IN THE WILDERNESS OF CANADA’S YUKON </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 73" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=73"> AT THE I met my Yukon guide, Kalin, a</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 74" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=74"> In the morning, we drive through the vast Kluane </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 75" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=75"> CXAXNXXAXDXA PHOTOS:LUKEWHEATLEYANDXXXXXXXXXX Sp</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 76" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=76"> I look out the window and am hypnotised by the sc</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 77" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=77"> PHOTOS: NAME NAME PHOTOS:LUKEWHEATLEY little pla</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 78" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=78"> In these moments of pure, unplanned magic I becom</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 79" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=79"> I never thought I could. Things like dog sledding</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 80" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=80"> IMMERSE YOURSELF IN IRELAND’S 2020 CULTURAL HUB W</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 81" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=81"> CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A colourful street in Ga</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 82" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=82"> The distinctive blue hue of Chefchaouen wi</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 83" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=83"> Discover the 39 Mediterranean’s best-kept sec</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 84" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=84"> 4 0 The stunning view over Cape Town from Lion’s </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 85" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=85"> Drive the Garden Route in South Africa </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 86" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=86"> The Garden Route seems somewhat of a </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 87" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=87"> XXXXXX Knysna is known as the ‘Pear</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 88" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=88"> 1 Ski Japan & South Korea Words: Cassandra Laf</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 89" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=89"> FOLLOW THE SNOW-BOUND POWDER HOUNDS TO JAPAN AND</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 90" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=90"> 2 FEEL LIKE A KID IN THE THEME PARK </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 91" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=91"> Keep to the right – Girona is a popular training </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 92" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=92"> The breathtaking first glimpse of the Treasury th</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 93" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=93"> 44 </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 94" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=94"> 45 PHOTOS: SUPPLIED 94 FLIGHTCENTRE.COM.AU/TRAV</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 95" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=95"> Cruise to Russia’s almost uncharted Far East Wo</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 96" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=96"> SWIM WITH WHALE SHARKS </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 97" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=97"> IMAGES PHOTOS: GETTY CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Up</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 98" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=98"> CLOCKWISE: Paradise found in the Maldives; pullin</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 99" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=99"> GO ON A HISTORIC LONDON PUB CRAWL Words: Cassandr</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 100" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=100"> Words: Erin Bennion, travel writer, Flight Centre</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 101" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=101"> RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL Travel changes you in the</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 102" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=102"> with your dollar in places that matter. Visiting </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 103" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=103"> • Intrepid Travel has a ‘Not Hot’ list, aimed at </a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 104" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=104"> @coady44 “It’s just like the photos. A swim in th</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 105" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=105"> @lilyrosecommins “I snapped these four male lions</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 106" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=106"> EXPLORE FURTHER WITH AZAMARA We give you more ti</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 107" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=107"> We’ve turned the world upside down in search</a>
<a title="DD-4664_Travel ideas Top 50_Book_LR page 108" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5e18c0a8?page=108"> NEW EXPERIENCES Be inspired to see more of the</a>