Australia is a wild and beautiful place, a land whose colour palette of red outback sands and Technicolor reefs frames sophisticated cities and soulful Indigenous stories. Lonely Planet will get you to the heart of Australia, with amazing travel experiences and the best planning advice.

Take a journey through the back roads of Australia to discover the area's real soul and charm. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road.

Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet's Outback Australia Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering Australia's Outback by car.

Australia is a wild and beautiful place, a land whose colour palette of red outback sands and Technicolor reefs frames sophisticated cities and soulful Indigenous stories. Lonely Planet will get you to the heart of Australia, with amazing travel experiences and the best planning advice.

Mainland Australia’s quirky and rugged southern neighbour celebrates its relative isolation with a laid-back ambience, an emerging gourmet food scene, and some of the planet’s most astounding wilderness and scenery.

As the planet heats up environmentally and politically, it’s good to know that New Zealand exists. This uncrowded, green, peaceful and accepting country is the ultimate escape.

Melbourne is food obsessed, marvellously multicultural and a showpiece for Australian culture. Beyond the city limits, Victoria offers rich history, stunning wilderness and culinary excellence. Lonely Planet will get you to the heart of Melbourne & Victoria, with amazing travel experiences and the best planning advice.

Pack your bags: Australia’s east coast is road-tripping nirvana, with picture-perfect beaches, rainforests, hip cities and the Great Barrier Reef. Lonely Planet will get you to the heart of East Coast Australia, with amazing travel experiences and the best planning advice.

If you subscribe to the ‘life’s a beach’ school of thought, you’ll fall in love with Western Australia (WA) and its 12,500km of spectacular coastline, where you can wander along a beach for hours without seeing a footprint in the sand...

Lonely Planet has been researching Australia's dusty backroads for 32 years. This new meticulously researched guide to Australia's centre will enrich any travels in the region, whether short excursions from Darwin, Alice of Adelaide, or epic road trips all the way from the Great Australian Bight to the Top End. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.

Australia's best musicians, foodies, actors, writers and architects flock to Sydney: a hyperenergetic, ambitious marketplace of the soul, where anything goes and everything usually does. Coverage includes: Planning chapters, Circular Quay, The Rocks, Sydney Harbour, City Centre, Haymarket, Darling Harbour, Pyrmont, Inner West, Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Kings Cross, Potts Point, Paddington, Centennial Park, Bondi to Coogee, Manly, Day Trips, Understand and Survival chapters.

Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. Queenland is renowned for its beachs, but Queensland's also has great dining, a thriving, accessible indigenous culture and a healthy international vibe. Includes information about scuba diving and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, the beaches, adventure travel such as bungy jumping, leaping out of a plane or visitin a crocodile farm. Also includes information about restaurants and accommodations. Fold-out trip map is included.

Packing in cosmopolitan cities, authentic opportunities to experience Māori culture, and the country’s bubbling volcanic heart, the North Island is an exceedingly versatile destination.