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The Best “Soft Adventure” Experiences to Have in Australia

3 weeks ago | qantas.com | Kendall Hill

Like beauty, adventure is in the eye of the beholder. Wherever you sit on the thrillseeking scale, we’ve found 18 new ways to (gently) test your limits. Want to combine the best views of Brisbane/Meanjin with an adrenaline rush? Try the Story Bridge Adventure Climb. The city shines brightest at dawn and dusk, when these 90-minute tours capture the shifting light and sweeping outlook to the Glasshouse Mountains, Moreton Bay and the Scenic Rim.
This Hike Through Catalonia Could Be One of the World’s Most Beautiful Journeys

3 weeks ago | qantas.com | Kendall Hill

March 28, 2025By Kendall Hill | Photography by Rubén Plasencia Related contentWhere to Drink, Eat and Stay in Rioja, SpainInside the World of San Sebastian's Gastronomic Secret SocietiesSpainGrand Hotel Central – Hotel ReviewHotel Arbaso Donostia – Hotel Review Discover where you want to go next: trending destinations, new openings and our favourite places
Add These Once-in-a-lifetime Cruises to Your Bucket List

1 month ago | qantas.com | Kendall Hill

More than a century after Douglas Mawson’s heroic Antarctic expeditions, Australia is once again a pioneer in South Pole adventuring. The Australian-owned Scenic Discovery Yacht Eclipse II will chart a course for rarely visited East Antarctica this summer, retracing Mawson’s path – but this time in 21st-century luxury. The impeccably equipped Eclipse II has suites (with balconies and butlers) for 200 guests, a total of 18 bars, lounges and restaurants, plus a spa – with added Pilates studio.
Stay in Devigarh palace in India’s oldest mountain range

1 month ago | afr.com | Kendall Hill

Kendall HillMar 4, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Before the other guests wake, just after sunrise, I like to climb to the highest point of my seven-storey palace and watch Devigarh come to life. I park myself in the bay window of a hanging balcony among the ringneck parakeets and watch staff busily ready the grounds for another impeccable day.
I stayed at Chanoud Garh, a 335-year-old fort-palace in Rajasthan, India

2 months ago | escape.com.au | Kendall Hill

"A place like ours isn’t a hotel,” says Jairaj Singh as he welcomes me to Chanoud Garh with a garland of frangipanis and a cooling glass of tamarind and cumin juice. “It’s a home with a soul.” His 335-year-old family pile – part palace, part fort – towers above the small village of Chanoud, roughly midway between the tourist drawcards of Jodhpur and Udaipur in Indian’s northwestern Rajasthan state.
Top destinations to visit (and avoid) in 2025

Jan 23, 2025 | escape.com.au | Kendall Hill

January is Where-to-Go month, when publications around the globe reveal their travel recommendations for the year ahead. Given it’s my job to keep abreast of travel trends I’ve selflessly read through all the 2025 commandments so you don’t have to. In this, my master edit of all the other editors’ lists, I won’t clarify anything and probably won’t give you any useful advice about where to venture this year. If anything, trend-followers will be more confused.
I spent 2 days in Busselton, it wasn't enough

Jan 17, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Kendall Hill

This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser From the compact airport I head straight to the new By the locals’ own admissions, Busselton/Undalup was never much of a tourist magnet in WA’s southwest summer playground. “Busselton was just a place you drove past to get to Dunsborough or Margaret River,” one tells me. “It was like a bathroom break,” says another. “For years, people just drove past,” a local chef observes.
This once sleepy beach town now WA's hottest spot

Jan 17, 2025 | couriermail.com.au | Kendall Hill

By the locals’ own admissions, Busselton/Undalup was never much of a tourist magnet in WA’s southwest summer playground. “Busselton was just a place you drove past to get to Dunsborough or Margaret River,” one tells me. “It was like a bathroom break,” says another. “For years, people just drove past,” a local chef observes. But since direct flights launched in 2022 from Melbourne, and last year from Sydney, Busselton’s got a definite buzz going on.
I found the Great Ocean Road's best new stops

Jan 8, 2025 | escape.com.au | Kendall Hill

By now I should know every kink in the Great Ocean Road. I’ve travelled it since I was a kid – we lived in Warrnambool, spent every summer with my Apollo Bay cousins – but each time I visit Victoria’s southwest there’s something fresh and inspiring to discover. To prove the point I popped down in December and pinballed between at least half a dozen new places offering everything from marine farming to winemaking.
4 Classic Australian Hotels to Experience at Least Once

Nov 29, 2024 | qantas.com | Bek Day |Kirsten Galliott |Kendall Hill

Skip to content November 30, 2024By Travel Insider Writers Intimate, luxurious and quintessentially Australian, these beloved stays continue to evolve and delight. Below, four Travel Insider writers and editors return to some of the country’s most renowned hotels to share the exciting updates that await your next visit. Raes on Wategos 2.0 “The dolphins are back!” a voice cries from somewhere nearby, the sound of the ocean a backing track to the exciting news.