Australia
Broome
130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints revealed at low tide on a beach where camels walk at sunset.
Camels walk Cable Beach in silhouette, their shadows stretching impossibly long across five kilometres of flat, wet sand. The Indian Ocean is warm and orange. An hour earlier, you stood on Gantheaume Point where 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints emerge at low tide, preserved in red rock.
Broome sits on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, a town built on pearling, red pindan earth, and a monsoon climate that divides life into wet and dry seasons. Cable Beach — named for the telegraph cable laid to Singapore in 1889 — runs five kilometres of uninterrupted sand along the Indian Ocean. Gantheaume Point holds theropod dinosaur trackways from the Early Cretaceous, visible at low spring tides. The Staircase to the Moon — a natural optical illusion where a rising full moon reflects off tidal mudflats — occurs three nights per month between March and October. Broome's Chinatown precinct, despite its name, reflects a multicultural pearling history involving Japanese, Malay, Chinese, Aboriginal, and European divers.
Couple
Camel rides at sunset, dinosaur footprints at dawn, and the Staircase to the Moon — Broome layers romance onto a prehistoric coastline.
Family
Dinosaur prints, camel rides, and Cable Beach's gentle shallows — Broome entertains families through natural spectacle.
Friends
Pearl farms, beach barbecues, and Kimberley adventure tours — Broome is a launchpad for group expeditions into Australia's northwest.
- 130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints emerge at low tide on Gantheaume Point beach.
- Camel trains walk Cable Beach at sunset — five kilometres of flat, golden sand against the Indian Ocean.
- The Staircase to the Moon appears three nights a month when a full moon reflects off the mudflats.
- Pearl lugger history fills the town — Japanese, Chinese, and Aboriginal divers built the industry.
Cable Beach sunset markets — satay skewers and laksa from Broome's Malay, Chinese, and Japanese pearling heritage.
Matso's Brewery — mango beer and barramundi tacos in a tropical beer garden.
Jericoacoara
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Windswept dunes where the sun melts into the sea from a natural stone arch.
St Ives
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Light so luminous it lured a century of painters to this harbour of turquoise shallows.
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Alpine pools at 3,500 metres that mirror a 7,000-metre peak at dawn like shattered glass.
Philae Temple
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A temple rescued from rising waters, reassembled stone by stone on an island in the Nile.
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Cruise the Gordon River past Huon pines that were saplings when Rome was still a republic.
Maria Island
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A car-free island where Tasmanian devils roam free and convict ruins crumble into wildflower meadows.
Dampier Peninsula
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Red pindan dirt meets turquoise sea at Aboriginal communities where the country is still the boss.
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Ferries carve blue water between surf beaches and opera sails as cockatoos screech overhead.