Welcome to Western Australia

This sun-soaked seaside city is nestled between wineries, national parks, and 19 world-class Indian Ocean beaches. It’s also the sunniest capital city in Australia.

Whether you’re cruising the gleaming Swan River (Derbarl Yerrigan), exploring Kings Park (Kaarta Koomba) with an Aboriginal guide or enjoying fresh oysters at Elizabeth Quay, you’ll likely have blue skies overhead. Don’t miss Rottnest Island (Wadjemup), a car-free nature reserve, just a 25-minute ferry from Perth’s port city, Fremantle. This is the perfect place to start your Australian adventure.

This magical region is just two-and-a-half hours’ drive south of Perth and includes some of Australia’s most biodiverse environments – including Tuart Forest National Park and Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park.

Take time out to explore its wineries and breweries, art galleries, artisan shops, and cool cafés or take off on the Cape-to-Cape Track to hike through lighthouses, forests and sweeping sandy bays. The gourmet food scene here is world-class and if you’re visiting for whale watching season (June to December), be sure to pack a chunk of crumbly cheddar and a bottle of cabernet sauvignon to enjoy at a stop of your choice, surrounded by nature.

Take to the skies with Qantas’ Explorer Pass and head north from Perth to the port of Broome (Rubibi), the Kimberley’s western gateway. The Kimberley is one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, a vast and ancient place where you’ll enjoy profound Aboriginal experiences with the traditional custodians of the land. Here, you can explore extraordinary landscapes, such as the World Heritage listed Bungle Bungle Range, and witness one of the planet’s most unique natural phenomenon, the Horizontal Falls (Garaanngaddim), thanks to the area’s giant tides. From spotting rock wallabies along the mighty Ord River at dusk, finding thundering waterfalls or witnessing a fiery Indian Ocean sunset on the back of an unhurried camel as it strides along Cable Beach (Walmanyjun), the Kimberley will touch your soul and stay with you forever.

Spanning 300 thriving kilometres, Ningaloo is the largest fringing reef on the planet, which means you can walk straight off the beach and snorkel amongst 200 species of coral teeming with 500 species of colourful fish. Take an eco-tour to swim with gentle whale sharks, the biggest fish in the world. Feel true awe as you witness their effortless majesty first-hand. You can also swim with graceful humpback whales during their annual migration north along Western Australia’s ‘Humpback Highway’, or flip underwater with Coral Bay’s acrobatic manta rays, who call Ningaloo home year-round.

To get here, it’s just a two-hour Qantas flight north from Perth to Exmouth – or you could take 10 days (or more) and drive along the Coral Coast Highway, then take the short flight back to Perth after your adventure. Hugging the Indian Ocean, the Coral Coast Highway is no ordinary road trip. This adventure takes you through a vast array of wonders and two of Western Australia's three World Heritage Areas – Shark Bay (Gutharraguda) and Ningaloo Reef. Marvel at the lunar-like limestone pinnacles of Nambung National Park, the dreamlike pink hues of Hutt Lagoon or meet friendly dolphins at Monkey Mia. And this is only the beginning.