Located in southwest Arkansas’ Sevier County near neighboring Oklahoma, De Queen is a small town of about 7,000 residents that’s near many lakes, rivers, and national parks that draw outdoorsmen and nature lovers year-round to enjoy activities like fishing, hunting, hiking, and wildlife photography. Though in a rural part of the state, De Queen is …
A comfortable climate, endless sandy beaches, big-time visitor attractions, stylish resorts, tracts of rainforest and striking mountains: The Sunshine Coast’s strengths are many, and there’s so much more than you could ever fit into a single holiday. If you’re a fearless adventurer you can scramble down humid rainforest valleys, conquer mountains and make for the …
As it meanders across Australia’s inland plains the Murray River is the natural boundary between the states of Victoria and New South Wales. One city on the north bank is Albury, which forms a cross-river conurbation with its twin, Wodonga, on the Victoria side. Albury grew up as a transport hub, at the point where …
The town of White Hall is located in Washington Township and Jefferson County Arkansas. A suburb of the larger city of Pine Bluff, at the time of the last census, the town had slightly more than 5,000 residents. Though it’s modest and full of small-town charm, it’s the county’s most rapidly developing town. From the …
Backed by cotton and wheat fields, this mid-sized tourist resort on Turkey’s Aegean Coast takes its name from Didyma, an Ancient Greek sanctuary. Didyma has a 2,300-year-old Temple of Apollo in a fantastic state of preservation and linked to the ancient city of Miletus, a few to the north, by a “Sacred Way”. You don’t …
Tasmania’s northern second city is at the head of the long Tamar River estuary. Launceston has a few things you don’t come across very often, like an awesome river gorge a stone’s throw from the CBD, and a city park with an island inhabited by macaques. The Cataract Gorge can be traversed via a record-breaking …
In the northeast of Victoria, Wodonga is one of a pair of cities on the Murray River and faces off against its sibling Albury on the New South Wales side. Near Wodonga you can visit the largest military museum in the country, and learn how the foundations for modern Australia were laid at the site …
An hour south of Sydney, Wollongong is a coastal city bursting with beaches, magnificent natural scenery and inspiration for days out. The city is jostled onto a natural coastal plain by the sandstone Illawara Escarpment, climbing to several hundred metres just inland. A few attractions on this list take advantage of the widescreen views from …
The story of Australia’s third-largest inland city is tangled up in the Victorian gold rush of the mid-19th century. Gold was first discovered in the area in 1851 and this triggered a frenzy that would burn for many decades due to the sheer wealth of the alluvial deposits. The money created by the gold rush …
Victoria’s second-largest city is only an hour out of Melbourne. Geelong is one of Australia’s busiest ports, growing quickly in the middle of the 19th century to serve the Western District’s wool industry and the Victorian Gold Rush. The Port of Geelong continues to thrive, but during the 20th century the city’s waterfront on Corio …