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When you’re heading Down Under bring your sense of adventure, sense of humor, and reliable travel insurance. Australia is mostly Outback, so you’re bound to include at least one Outback adventure in your visit.
Plan ahead if your trip depends on the weather. To ski at Thredbo, Perisher or Falls Creek come around June to October. To walk the alpine wilderness treks through Kosciusko or Tasmania plan around January/February, and for Outback tracks avoid the heat and go autumn through spring. The Northern Territory – Darwin and Kakadu – Cape York and the Daintree are on go slow in summer during The Wet, and anywhere north from the Whitsunday’s to Cairns, and across to Broome is magnificent in winter.
The Aussie events calendar takes in the full spectrum from the famous Melbourne Cup horse race, which stops the entire country, to the start of the grueling Sydney to Hobart yacht race when Sydney Harbour is a breathtaking sight of pleasure craft shadowing the fleet as they commence the 630 nautical mile blue water event.
Darwin’s Beer Can Regatta has to be seen, with each craft constructed of thousands of beer cans, while the annual Alice Springs’ Henley-On-Todd Regatta is held in the bone dry Todd River, a good 1,500 klms from the closest large body of water. Once a year, Birdsville – a dusty one pub town in western Queensland – is inundated by thousands of visitors there for the Birdsville Races and a yarn.
But the essence of Australia isn’t only about races. Take a sunset camel ride along an expansive beach in isolated Broome and experience timeless tranquility in the Kimberley, move to the pulse of Surfers Paradise on The Gold Coast, drift in a hot air balloon over the Barossa wine valley, join a droving team on an Outback cattle drive, cruise amongst whales in Hervey Bay, climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge, listen to a concert at the Opera House or the wind sigh through the pass in The Olgas.
Dive the Great Barrier Reef or fossick for opals in Coober Pedy. When you’ve explored Australia, why not go on to explore the region. Naturally first make sure your travel insurance extends throughout the exotic islands scattered across this balmy corner of the South Pacific.
If you’ve got the wanderlust, travel to Australia the long way down through South America and return via South East Asia – Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, up through Japan, over to Alaska, and home through Canada. Travel insurance to Australia usually also includes what’s termed Australasia, which takes in New Zealand, the Fiji and Solomon Islands, Indonesia, French Polynesia, and Papua New Guinea to name a few of the more than 28 countries, and islands. Getting an online travel insurance quote only takes a few minutes, and by buying direct through the insurer you can be sure to get cheap travel insurance without the added commissions.