Swimming in the middle of Humpback Highway
Max Anderson swims with humpbacks off Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef and finds it a surprisingly large undertaking.
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Max Anderson
Max Anderson has spent 25 years as a wandering writer, editor and author. His first love is words, but travelling has always proved an interesting way to get them.
The Australian island where the locals are in another world
It's an island off Australia but after listening to the locals, it might as well be an island off Mars.
Through the Catskills with Robert De Niro
No matter it's far away from the mean streets of Taxi Driver, it is unnerving being welcomed on a cultural tour by Travis Bickle himself.
Why travel is more important than private school fees
Are private school fees better spent on travel? Max Anderson puts the idea to the test in Japan.
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Cruising Australia's best loved river
By the time the Murray-Darling river crosses into South Australia, it's become a magnificent 'old man river'.
China
This is what luxury looks like in China
Max Anderson tries out a new luxury resort in China and finds it affords him rare privileges.
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Get hooked on great white sharks with Rodney Fox
In 1963, Rodney Fox was seized around the chest by a Great White shark. Two years later, he decided he had to know more about his attacker, and entered the waters off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
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Australia's newest walking trail
Walk the Yorke is Australia's newest walking trail and one of the country's longest.
Dubai
Inside Dubai's crazy, super-luxury mega-hotel
There's 5000 guests, 3000 staff and 65,000 fish. Welcome to one of the craziest hotels on Earth.
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Australia's destination for underwater adventures
From hunting for great white sharks to heli-fishing – adventure as fresh as Eyre on the Peninsula.
South Australia
Spectacular Aussie spot takes you half a billion years back in time
The Flinders Ranges in South Australia's arid north is an impossibly brutal landscape rendered implausibly beautiful.
Pacific
The untamed paradise at our doorstep
It's an amazing paradise right on our doorstep – so why don't many of us visit?
South Australia
Australia's own Galapagos
It's one of the most amazing places on earth to see wildlife. So why would you start with pelicans?
London's new hip East End
Max Anderson samples the stylish, avant-garde traveller experience that now populates the once working-class district.
Maps
When pinning places you've visited becomes an obsession
I have a world map on my wall covered in cotton lines and small red pins depicting flights and destinations.