• Rottnest Island

Samphire Rottnest: The Australian island that's now a world-class destination

Luxury has finally arrived on this quokka-filled isle, 19 kilometres from the port of Fremantle.

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• Yamba

Pacific Hotel, Yamba: After 86 years, this is still the pub with the best view in Australia

In Yamba you'll get a decent bed, a shower to get the sand off, a kettle and your requisite two biscuits and powdered coffee satchels. And change from $100.

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• Hawaii

Airline review: Hawaiian Airlines business class, Sydney to Honolulu, Hawaii

The airline is also triumphant in setting the aloha mood through cuisine, music and design.

• Andrea Black

• India

Airport review: Kempegowda International Airport, Bangalore, India

Surprisingly smooth check-in experience despite the airport handling 33.3 million passengers in the last year.

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• India

South India: Therapeutic sound healing at Svatma resort

A wooden slab may just help you tune into your body's health and wellbeing.

• Andrea Black

• Sri Lanka

A tale of two Sri Lankan brothers and their beautiful gardens

One was hedonistic and social, the other a more solitary modernist, and you can see it when touring their respective homes.

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• India

Live like royalty at Taj Falaknuma Palace hotel in Hyderabad, India

Here we are, sipping champagne as a horse-drawn carriage deposits us at the palace entrance.

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• Culture holidays

Six of the best futuristic libraries

Beyond the books: six libraries of the future.

• Andrea Black

Veriu Central hotel review: The Sydney hotel with the 'social factor'

Veriu is helping to redefine how we experience hotels - less time in your room, more time in the social spaces.

• Andrea Black

• New York

Woodstock, New York, US: Staying at Big Pink is like hanging out with Bob Dylan and The Band

This is where, 50 years ago, Bob Dylan tinkered on an Olivetti typewriter, producing 139 songs together with The Band.

• Andrea Black