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In coming months, Australia will unveil three new multi-day bushwalking trails. Here's a preview: http://adventurebeforeavarice.com/2015/07/31/a-trio-of-new-australian-walking-trails/
Like a gift to the person who's walked everywhere, Australia is on the cusp of launching three new long-distance hiking trails. Before the end of next year, bushwalkers will be able to hike not jus...
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The Blooming Himalayas. A pictorial on Nepal's rhododendron season: http://adventurebeforeavarice.com/2015/03/30/the-blooming-himalayas/
Across the foothills of the Annapurna massif, the forest is changing colour. The greens are turning red and pink, stretching into bands of bright colour that cast a blush across the dense forest. F...
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You don't expect forgotten forgotten lands in a country as well-trodden as New Zealand, but welcome to the Forgotten World...in a golf cart. My feature from last weekend's Traveller. http://www.traveller.com.au/travel-guide-to-new-zealands-forgotten-world-13fmty #newzealand   #newzealandtravel  
Both civilisation and glory have long faded in this small town on New Zealand’s North Island.
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Recipe for a great hike with kids: beaches, fierce waves and mud. Lots of mud...
You know a hike is going well when a nine-year-old boy turns to you in camp in the evening and says, "I just realised, I haven't complained once today." Last weekend I took my two children for an o...
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The New Zealand Great Walk that doesn't require a step - my story from last weekend's Fairfax Traveller. http://www.smh.com.au/travel/whanganui-river-new-zealand-walking-on-water-20140702-3b7ez.html
Whanganui River was billed 'the Rhine of the South Pacific' by early travellers, writes Andrew Bain.
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Top 10 world cycle tours. No 8...a country where bikes just seem natural. http://adventurebeforeavarice.com/2015/06/17/top-10-cycle-tours-8-central-vietnam/
A select few places in the world are synonymous with cycling. Vietnam is one of them. Think of this country and you might invariably picture a worker in a conical hat pedalling across rice levees, ...
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This post has been a while coming, but then it's a long ride from the last entry in this list - New Zealand - to the foothills of the French Alps... I came to the Luberon pretty much by accident. P...
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Follow the leader - a featured look at some of the world's great tour guides, including my pick, the evergreen Himalayan guide, Mick Chapman, still guiding after pioneering a trekking route through the Annapurnas in the 1970s. http://www.traveller.com.au/follow-the-leader-a-guide-to-good-travel-guides-133c3i #trekking   #Nepal   #hiking   #Annapurnas  
What makes a guide good? Craig Tansley and Traveller's other writers recall some of the finest.
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My favourite young adventurer - my daughter - plays a starring role in the Parks & Wildlife Service's new guide for kids to the Overland Track. http://adventurebeforeavarice.com/2014/11/06/the-new-publishing-sensation/
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