Australia Tourism

The best time for Australia travel is March to May and September to November. These months mark the autumn and spring seasons in Australia that see temperatures ranging between 11 degrees to 23 degrees Celsius. This is a great time to engage in water sports like snorkelling and surfing at beaches like the Gold Coast and Byron Bay. You can also explore the continent’s unique wildlife of koalas and kangaroos at the Taronga Zoo and Daintree Rainforest. Many festivals like Easter and sports tournaments like the Australian Grand Prix and World Surfing Championships are also held in these months.

Australia is connected to major Indian cities by direct and connecting flights provided by several domestic and international airlines. The journey takes around 10 to 14 hours from Indian airports in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. Major airports providing connectivity in Australia include Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, and Gold Coast.

Like most countries, you will definitely need a visa to enter Australia unless you are an Australian Citizen or a New Zealand passport holder.The category of visa you wish to get solely relies on the purpose of your visit. If your country falls under the Electronic Tourist Visa (ETA), you can directly apply online and get it linked to your passport.
Otherwise the visa application has to be lodge early as possible keeping in mind that it might take time. Find Visa facility of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection website will navigate you to the application page where you can register for the Visa. The Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection scrutinizes you before sanctioning the Visa.

Australian currency is the Australian Dollar. You have many available options to each age your currency.

Australia tourism packages can cost anywhere between INR 1,47,000 for 7 days to INR 3,00,000 for 13 days. These prices can vary based on the experiences you choose and the facilities you opt for. Thrillophilia’s Australia packages are inclusive of meals, accommodations, transfers, and activities so you can enjoy a stress-free vacation. You can also customise the packages as per your interests, however, that can affect the overall cost of the trip.

Seven to ten days are needed for a leisurely tour across Australia. Since there are numerous destinations to explore like Sydney and Melbourne, plan to spend at least two days in each city. A well-planned itinerary will also let you explore offbeat destinations like Daintree Rainforest and Lord Howe Island within this period. The continent is a hub of adventures like trekking, hiking, mountain climbing, surfing, and snorkelling, so you will also need time for them. For a more comprehensive cultural Australia trip, you can always opt for a longer duration of vacation.

Australia has a well connected public transport system that connects its cities for locals and tourists: 

1. A bus network: The best means of transport all around Australia is the well connected bus network.

Travelling for the first time? Well Thrillophilia offers you a few tips:

• Australia is huge and extremely diverse hence you will not be able to cover the whole place in your trip.
• Australia is quite expensive so you need to pre plan your trip.
• Get acquainted with the local language to help you move easily with the people.
• Don't always expect to be surrounded by koalas and kangaroos all the time!
• Don't be generous! You can't tip your servers or bartenders as they get offended.

Being an island surrounded by pristine clear beaches. All you need to do is get your swimsuits on and head to the beach to soak in its beauty. The famous beaches in Australia are:

• Whitehaven Beach: The 7Kms stretch of beach is found on Whitsunday Island which is accessible by boat, seaplane and helicopter.
• Cable Beach: Located in Broome it is a 22 Kms stretch of white sand beach in Western Australia.
• Burleigh Heads Beach: In the Gold Coast of Australia this beach is famous for its surfing adventures.
• Main Beach, Noosa QLD: This is a wide sandy beach with clear calm
• Waters that has a huge reserve of natural gardens.
• 75 Mile Beach, Fraser Island: This is a 75 Mile Beach that stretches along the coast of the island with soothing calm waters.

Overflowing with Natural fauna, this kangaroo island in the mainland of South Australia, southwest of Adelaide is a protected natural reserve. Other than seeing koalas, kangaroos you can enjoy a great deal of things when visiting this island like:

• Duley wines cellar door: Winery where you can taste wines amidst beautiful view of the island.
• Flinders chase national park: With stunning rock formations this national park is a must visit to see Mother Nature at her best.
• Clifford's honey farm: Honey farm which will give you the experience of culturing and extracting quality honey.
• Seal bay conservation park: A wildlife conservation park which is the home to Seals inside the kangaroo island.

You can get your adrenaline pumping exploring and involving in water sports in Australia. You can either pre-book them online or go and then get yourself a customized package with all the water sport activities. A few must try water sports are:

1. Aqua Jetpack Flying: Many water sport organizers have this water sport facility. You can try them out in most beaches in Australia.

2. Surfing: Surfers can head to Burleigh Heads Beach for a mindblowing experience. There are many organizers that help to train first timers as well.

Australia is famous for its wine. Local Wines have awesome taste and it is mandatory for tourist to go on a wine tour when in Australia.

• Barossa Valley: It is a renowned wine-producing valley in the northeast of Adelaide, South Australia.
• Yarra Valley: The region surrounding the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia produces world class wine.
• Hunter Valley: Found in north of Sydney in New South Wales produces Australia’s famous wines.

If you are a honeymooner travelling to Australia then you will spellbound visiting its romantic places.

• The Whitsundays: You will find many cozy romantic resorts in this area proving to be the best spot for honeymooners.
• Melbourne: Honeymoon in Melbourne will be exciting as you will find many exciting things like water sports, beaches and couple activities to do together.
• Queensland: This belated region with sunshine, pristine beaches and paradise island is the ideal place for most honeymooners.

Whale watching is quite popular in Australia. The whales come out only in specific places and in specific times. A few locations where you can spot them are:

• Eden,NSW: Coastal town in New South Wales that has Whale spotting.
• Hervey bay,QLD: Hervey Bay in southern Queensland, is famous for observing humpback whales during its migration from July to November.
• Great Australian bight marine park,SA: This is a protected Whale sanctuary located off the coastline of the Great Australian Bight area of South Australia.

Visiting Australia you must definitely go on a Safari to enjoy and experience the vast wildlife habitat that it has. A few places which hosts amazing wildlife safaris are:

• Wildlife safari : Fraser Island in Queensland is the largest sand island in the world which offers exciting wildlife safaris.
• Camel safari: Enjoy canoe ride and safari along the coast of 90 Mile Beach on East Gippsland’s Lakes Entrance.
• Whale safari: Kaikoura in New Zealand offers you with the best Whale safari in Australia.
• Bird safari: New Zealand offers the best bird safaris and is the home to various bird sanctuaries.

A world heritage site is one which the UNESCO has listed as a place of special physical or cultural significance and Australia has 19 UNESCO heritage sites that stand out as 3 cultural, 12 Natural and 4 mixed sites.

Cultural

• Australian Convict Sites (2010)
• Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (2004)
• Sydney Opera House (2007)

Natural

• Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) (1994)
• Fraser Island (1992)
• Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (1986,1994)
• Great Barrier Reef (1981)
• Greater Blue Mountains Area (2000)
• Heard and McDonald Islands (1997)
• Lord Howe Island Group (1982)
• Macquarie Island (1997)
• Ningaloo Coast (2011)
• Purnululu National Park (2003)
• Shark Bay, Western Australia (1991)
• Wet Tropics of Queensland (1988)

Mixed

• Kakadu National Park (1981,1987,1992)
• Tasmanian Wilderness (1982,1989)
• Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (1987,1994)
• Willandra Lakes Region (1981)

Australis is the ideal place to enjoy a road trip. All you need to do is take a nap find a route and go on a trip with family and friends. A few destinations perfect for road trip are:

• East coast: Route from Cairns to Brisbane.
• Pacific Highway: All the way from Brisbane to Sydney.
• Great Ocean Road: Along the roads of Melbourne to Adelaide.
• Adelaide to Darwin: The Stuart Highway is perfect for a road trip.
• South west edge: All the way Adelaide to Perth will offer you the best road trip ever.