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100 Things to Do Before you Die 2011

Lord Howe Island. Photo courtesy of Lord Howe Island and Jack Schick

Lord Howe Island. Photo courtesy of Lord Howe Island and Jack Schick

100 Things To Do Before You Die: 2011 edition – revised and updated Australian travel experiences everyone should have in their lifetime. Earlier this year, we asked the Australian Traveller community to vote for their favourite things to do in Australia. We received hundreds upon hundreds of nominations, from local secrets to stumbled-upon surprises and well-tramped icons of The Outback. From that list, we asked a panel of ten well-respected and well-travelled Australians to help us vote on the final 100 – they rated each from 1 to 10 based on their personal knowledge or interest in the experience and thus we created the top 100 things we feel every Australian traveller must do before they die. To find out who was on the panel, click here.

  1. Visit Lord Howe Island
  2. Fly over the Bungle Bungles
  3. See Lake Eyre in flood
  4. Walk our most beautiful beach at Wineglass Bay
  5. Take a year off and drive around Australia
  6. Go back to nature in Kakadu
  7. Explore ancient Arnhem Land
  8. Visit the Australian Antarctic Territory
  9. Cross the country both ways by train
  10. Soak up the spectacular Flinders Ranges
  11. Drive the Great Ocean Road
  12. Hike the Overland Track to Cradle Mountain
  13. Meet the dolphins at Monkey Mia
  14. Eat your way around King Island
  15. Cruise the Kimberley in the wet season
  16. Swim with whale sharks on Ningaloo Reef
  17. Sail the Whitsundays
  18. Take the Manly ferry
  19. Go walkabout in the Land of the Never Never
  20. Snorkel Rowley Shoals Marine Park
  21. Join a cattle drive in The Outback
  22. Walk the rim of Kings Canyon
  23. Explore Sydney Harbour’s Beaches
  24. Spot a platypus in the wild
  25. Visit Remarkable Rocks
  26. Complete the Uluru base walk
  27. Reach Australia’s northernmost point at Cape York
  28. Tick off all the Luxury Lodges of Australia
  29. Trek to the Bay of Fires
  30. Eat at Tetsuya’s
  31. Road-trip the Savannah Way
  32. Conquer the sand dunes of the Simpson
  33. Camp on Lady Musgrave Island
  34. Hire a van and drive around Tassie
  35. See the little penguins on Phillip Island
  36. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
  37. See Tassie devils in the wild
  38. Whale-watch in Hervey Bay
  39. Traipse through the Tarkine
  40. Find a pearl in Broome
  41. Visit an Aboriginal art community
  42. Take a hot-air balloon flight over the Red Centre
  43. Look into our convict past at Port Arthur
  44. Treetop Walking in Lamington National Park
  45. Marvel at the wildlife on Kangaroo Island
  46. Watch the sunset from Steep Point
  47. Rejuvenate in Victoria’s Spa Country
  48. Rev yourself up on the Outback Trailblazer
  49. ‘Climb’ Mt Kosciuzsko
  50. Go underground at Coober Pedy
  1. Hire a houseboat on the Hawkesbury
  2. Pootle down the Murray on a paddleboat
  3. Uncover bones at the Age of Dinosaurs Museum
  4. Kayak on Coles Bay
  5. Visit Europe without a passport in the Barossa
  6. Stay on an outback cattle station
  7. Drive the Gibb River Rd
  8. Go to the Birdsville Races
  9. Take a seaplane to Whitehaven Beach
  10. See in the New Year on Sydney Harbour
  11. Tackle the ‘tracks’ by 4WD
  12. Explore the unknown on the Torres Strait Islands
  13. See the Australian Ballet perform
  14. Climb the Harbour Bridge
  15. Find a waterfall by chopper
  16. Ride in a camel train along Cable Beach
  17. Experience Karijini National Park
  18. See Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series
  19. Go to the Melbourne Cup
  20. See something big at the MCG
  21. Be the first in Australia to see the sunrise
  22. Have a barbie with friends on the beach
  23. Walk in the wilderness of Maria Island
  24. Hike the Larapinta Trail
  25. Go to the Tamworth Country Music Festival
  26. Eat fresh lobster in Robe
  27. Drive across the Nullarbor Plain
  28. Go to the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame
  29. Trawl Melbourne’s laneways
  30. Marvel at The Pinnacles
  31. Go to the annual Outback Festival in Winton
  32. See the oldest man-made structures in the world
  33. See a performance at the Opera House
  34. Take the family to a Great Barrier Reef island
  35. Join the dawn service at the Australian War Memorial
  36. Go jungle surfing at Cape Tribulation
  37. See the flood plains of the Mary River wetlands
  38. Experience Mt Isa
  39. Dig deep into Hill End’s rich gold and art history
  40. Be at the finish line of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
  41. Stay at a real Aussie pub
  42. See the Devils Marbles up close
  43. Grab a seat at the Australian Open
  44. Have a picnic into the night at Tropfest
  45. See where the rainforest meets the sea in the Daintree
  46. Cruise Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour
  47. See the outback sculpture in Broken Hill
  48. Help protect our country’s flora and fauna
  49. Go to the Tiwi Islands’ annual footy day
  50. Get stranded on Wilson Island
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MATT BALI FLIGHT

April 15, 2011 at 4:21 pm

I have done several number above, I already put the rest on my To-Do list, such a great fun if I can done all of them

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