Travel tips in Western Australia, Australia

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Karijini National Park

Western Australia

A park of deep red gorges cut into the ancient rock of the Pilbara, with waterfalls, cold clear rock pools and fern-lined chasms.

Tours and activities

Ningaloo Reef whale sharks

Exmouth, Western Australia

A fringing reef close to shore, a UNESCO site, where from March to July you can swim with whale sharks, and humpback whales and manta rays at other t…

Natural features

Rottnest Island and quokkas

Western Australia

A car-free island off Perth with turquoise bays and quokkas, small smiling marsupials that are unafraid of people.

Natural features

Turquoise Bay, Cape Range National Park

Exmouth, Western Australia

A white-sand beach in Cape Range National Park where the Ningaloo Reef comes right up to the shore, making it one of the best places in Australia to …

Natural features

Cable Beach, Broome

Cable Beach, Western Australia

A 22 km stretch of white sand and turquoise water on the Indian Ocean, with Broome's famous camel trains strolling along it at sunset.

Natural features

Monkey Mia dolphins, Shark Bay

Denham, Western Australia

Wild bottlenose dolphins have been coming to the beach at Monkey Mia for more than 40 years.

Natural features

Purnululu (Bungle Bungle Range)

Western Australia

Beehive-shaped sandstone domes striped orange and black, in the Kimberley, a UNESCO site.

Natural features

The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park

Cervantes, Western Australia

Thousands of limestone pillars, some up to 3.5 m tall, rise from the yellow sand of the Pinnacles Desert, formed over thousands of years from seashel…