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Priestess returned from the dead
“WHEN they checked my body, they saw I was cold. My skin was white. I had no pulse. I had stopped breathing and they thought I was dead.”
Why planes are always white
THEY all have signature branding, but the planes themselves tend to be one colour. It turns out there are a number of reasons.
World’s biggest hotel chain is born
THE $17 billion merger of some of the best-known names in travel has created the largest hotel chain the world has ever seen.
‘Hello!’: Ghost caught on tape
IN A trip to Australia’s most haunted pub, we came as close as you can get to communicating with the living dead.
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Priestess returned from the dead
“WHEN they checked my body, they saw I was cold. My skin was white. I had no pulse. I had stopped breathing and they thought I was dead.”
‘Hello!’: Ghost caught on tape
IN A trip to Australia’s most haunted pub, we came as close as you can get to communicating with the living dead.
Sublime photos reveal natural world
THESE extraordinary photographs — in the running to win the National Geographic Photographer of the Year award — show nature at its best.
Japan’s garden of the dead
‘YOU come to feel like something is moving every time you turn around.’ Is this one of the world’s creepiest gardens?
Rare close up of intriguing passenger jet
IT WAS the most advanced and luxurious aircraft to grace the skies, flying everyone from the Queen to Mick Jagger.
China’s ‘dodgy’ Great Wall repair job
A LOCAL government in China is copping widespread criticism for botching restoration work on a 700-year-old stretch of the Great Wall of China.
Billionaire plans Fiji island paradise
A ‘PASSION project’ for billionaire Aussie property developer Lang Walker will be a Fijian paradise for pampered guests.
Big problem with new $3 billion airport
A STUNNING new $3 billion airport was designed to process up to 1600 passengers every hour. But it overlooks a crucial detail.
This is the definition of commuter chaos
THINK your morning commute is a drag? Spare a thought for these poor suckers, who were stuck in cramped carriages on a bridge for more than an hour.
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Why planes are always white
THEY all have signature branding, but the planes themselves tend to be one colour. It turns out there are a number of reasons.
Why you should order curries on flights
AIRLINE food often gets a bad rap — but only sometimes deserves it. Here’s the good, bad and ugly of in-flight meals from an Aussie who’s eaten them all.
How you’re getting ripped off on holiday
HEY big spender. Whether you realise it or not, you are burning through way more cash than you need to when you go on holiday.
‘Everyone sleeps with everyone’
GUESTS experience the sun-drenched high-life above decks on cruise ships, but there’s a dark world of low pay, cramped rooms and rampant sex below.
‘A never-ending wave of horror’
THEY attract millions of people every year but should we actually be playing tourist in these dark places?
The cheekiest way to travel
FROM weekend breaks to full-blown beach holidays: would you shell out for someone else’s adventure? These Aussies are optimistic.
When Airbnb goes horribly wrong
COMING home to ransacked flat, abandoned crack pipes, or strangers having sex in your bed. How likely are you to have an Airbnb disaster?
View of Uluru tourists don’t get to see
THE world is being given a never-before-seen glimpse of Australia’s most famous landmark — and it’s more spectacular than we thought.
The best island Australians don’t visit
IT’S got great beaches and good food — I even met my partner here. So why do so few Australians visit, asks Johanna Leggatt.
Forget the Gold Coast, go here instead
SOME might say the Gold Coast is to Australia what Justin Bieber is to music: brash, and largely tolerated. But here’s something better.