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Darwin holidays

December 2022

  • Compilation image of Darwin featuring beaches, an outdoor cinema and art museum

    A local's guide
    A local’s guide to Darwin: soul-stirring sunsets, enlivening art and multicultural markets

    Proud Larrakia woman Nicole Brown – Darwin’s 2022 Citizen of the Year – shares her favourite places to eat, unwind and connect with her ancestors in the saltwater city

November 2019

  • Mindil Beach Sunset Markets

    Laksa, larrikins and Tropical Light: a visitor's guide to Darwin

    Crocodiles and relentless heat aside, Darwin subverts expectations

April 2017

  • The Ghan - Great Southern Rail - in Australia

    The Ghan expedition – exploring Australia's great 'in-between'

    From Darwin, through Katherine, Alice Springs, Coober Pedy and finally to Adelaide, the train journey offers travellers something different each day

March 2017

  • Sunset at Ubirr in Kakadu

    Kakadu: the Crocodile Dundee tour of Australia's wetland wonderland

    Thirty years after Paul Hogan’s smash-hit film put the Top End on the tourist trail, Nikki Marshall takes in some of its locations – and has a much-too-close encounter with a croc called Chopper

February 2017

  • Parap village market

    Explore Northern Territory
    Northern Territory holiday guide: culinary adventures

    From witchetty grubs to sapodillas, crocodile meat to laksa, the variety of food and drink on offer in the Top End is rich

August 2016

  • Crowds at a juice stall at Mindil Beach Sunset Market.<br>Mindil Beach Sunset Markets, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Australasia

    The foodie traveller
    Little Asia: Darwin’s spiced-up street food vendors

    The lively Mindil Beach Sunset Market has stalls every bit as diverse as the population in Australia’s ‘top end’ city; many are south-east Asian and serve up fiery delights, from laksa soup to tempeh chili

September 2014

  • Crocosaurus Cove, Darwin, Northern Territory

    Darwin's close encounters of the croc kind – in pictures

    Crocs make Darwin’s beaches no-go zones, but just south of the city majestic plunge waterfalls offer tourists the chance for a cool, refreshing splash

April 2014

  • Anzac Day service in Alice Spings

    'There were 18 blokes on that plane and only five legs – two were mine'

    Last week, 50 veterans and descendants from the original Anzacs travelled from one end of Australia to the other on board the Ghan. Paul Daley joined them as they met old comrades, pondered their history, and remembered the dead

February 2014

  • Aboriginal paintings at Ubirr in the Northern Territory, a sacred site in Kakadu na

    True wilderness in Australia's Northern Territory

    Emma John skips Australia's popular Red Centre in favour of a true wilderness experience in the less-visited Top End of the Northern Territory and its state capital Darwin, a city on the up

December 2006

  • Travel blog
    A journey derailed

    Travelog: Michael White arrived in Australia armed with a pack of Werthers Originals to explore the great dry land Down Under. In the first of his Australian diaries, he takes the 'short' hop from Darwin to explore Kakadu National park before boarding the historic Ghan train.

March 2002

  • Netjetters blog
    Survival of the fittest

    Extreme weather, killer jellyfish, creepy crocs and birds with a grudge against backpackers: Darwin certainly keeps Andrew on his toes

March 2001

  • Netjetters blog
    51 and never been kissed...

    Week 15: Darwin to Kakadu National Park During her first hectic week in Australia, Sue negotiates jumping crocodiles, leeches and dissolving roads, and still finds time to settle the question of whether or not she ever did kiss Paul McCartney...

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