Australia

Australia’s Working Holiday Visa opens the door to year-long adventures. You can explore the country and find work to pay your way while you’re there.

The easiest place to work and travel is in Australia. It’s easy to apply for and it’s one of the most flexible programs that’s available to people under the age of 30!

One of the most rugged, least explored and least visited states in Australia, Tasmania is a paradise for outdoor enthusiasts. Located ten hours by ferry from Melbourne, this is Australia’s only...

Planning a backpacking trip to Australia can be a big endeavor. Despite reading a guidebook from cover to cover, there are some things you just won’t find out until you’re actually on the ground. These are the 14 things I wish I knew before traveling to Australia.

Australia is one of my favorite places in the world. It’s the first country I visited on the backpacking trip that would forever change my life. You better believe part of that...

Australia is one of the most beautiful places in the world, yet so much mystery remains to the rest of the world. The Land Down Under has no shortage of...

With trendy coffee shops, pristine ocean, outback desert, unique wildlife, delicious beer, and a plethora of adventure activities, there’s almost no place better to go backpacking than Australia. It was the first country...

Between the years of 2010 and 2011, I spent my time living, working, traveling and photographing in Australia. I explored the entire eastern half of the continent, which subsequently sparked...

As I write this article, I’m sitting in the room I grew up in. I spent the first fourteen years of my life in this rickety old house before I...

Don’t get me wrong–I actually love Australia. I had an incredible time navigating the country and I wouldn’t give that up for anything. Read any of my other posts and you’ll see how...

The Bay of Fires, in the northeastern part of Tasmania, is renowned for its beaches. They’re a bit out of the way so they don’t get as much traffic as...

At this point, I've been almost everywhere along the east coast of Australia. This includes every place you should visit and every place nobody ever should. Over nine weeks I backpacked my...