Caravanning Australia

Caravanning Australia

Australia's Best National Parks

A Visitor's Guide

$29.99
ISBN
9781741107197

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By Lee Atkinson
Format Paperback / softback
Page Extent 319
Book Size 208 x 153 x 22 mm (H x W x D)
Imprint New Holland Publishers
Release Date 1 Oct 2009
Subject Classification Travel & holiday / Travel writing

Australia is a wild-at-heart continent with one of the largest and most comprehensive national park networks in the world. This is a guide to the best 150 parks around the country.

Some of our parks are pure wilderness, with little or no facilities and even restricted access, but most offer a range of activities from camping and caravanning, bushwalking, picnicking, four-wheel driving, mountain biking and other adventure pursuits. All of them strive to protect significant sections of landscape, delicate ecosystems and previous cultural heritage for future generations. Australia's Best National Parks includes: * comprehensive activity icons for each park * how to get there * when to go * top tracks and trails * best picnic spots * accommodation and camping facilities and more.

Lee Atkinson

Lee Atkinson is one of Australia leading experts on travelling in Australia. Author of Caravanning Australia: 50 Great Destinations; The Australian Adventure Atlas, On the Road: 40 Great Driving Holidays in Australia and former editor of the country highest circulating motoring and travel magazine, The Open Road, Lee has been writing about her adventures on and off the road since 1991. Past president of the Australian Society of Travel Writers, Lee is also co-editor of an anthology of Australian travel writing, Best Foot Forward. Her work also appears regularly in glossy travel magazines, newspapers and various international in-flight magazines.