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YHA Australia

Feature Articles

  • Wet and Wild in Queensland

    July 2008

    Airlie Beach, in Queensland, is more than just the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands, as Lee Atkinson found out.

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  • Exploring Africa's Eden

    July 2008

    Shaney Hudson travelled along South Africa's Garden Route to uncover one of the continent's most beautiful regions.

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Your Say

Ambleside, the Lake District

March 2008

Ambleside YHA is set in Britain's Lake District & you couldn't ask for more magnificent scenery. I stayed here 7 years ago & enjoyed myself so much that I went back....more

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Travel Essentials

Top 5 Overseas Festival YHAs

Need a place to stay during that famous festival?

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Travel Tips

Guidebook post-its

Diane Yeo
Toowong

Got a fat new guidebook and keep losing your place? Can't find that all important chapter on ATMs? Stick a bunch of bright plastic Post-it Tape flags inside the cover and use them to bookmark places as required. You'll never lose your place again.


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