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Elspeth Callender

Elspeth Callender

Travel writer

Elspeth Callender is a columnist.

Created and performed by Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, takara nipaluna (walking Hobart) launched in February 2022.

Indigenous tours in Tasmania: New walking tour offers First Nations perspective on Hobart

This 90-minute experience highlights and honours the place, presence and stories of First Nations people in a city that has historically excluded them.

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Lord Howe is a 14.55-square-kilometre crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea.

Pinetrees Lodge at Lord Howe: More than 130 years on, Australian island hotel still shines

The Pinetrees story begins with Margaret Curry, an Irish-born housemaid, and Thomas Andrews, a fetching seaman she met on her passage to Australia in 1832.

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Lord Howe Island naturally attracts outdoor types.

Lord Howe Island travel guide and things to do: Nine highlights

Stunning Lord Howe Island is home to the world's most southerly coral reef.

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Unusual hexagonal-like natural wonder: Dip Falls.

Dip Falls and Big Tree, Dip River Forest Reserve: Tasmania's unusual hexagonal-like natural wonder

The other side of Tasmania proves to be a whole different world.

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A coffee served with love at Dumu Balcony Cafe.

Bright, Victoria, Australia: The High Country cafe that changes lives

It serves regional, seasonal and Indigenous bush foods, and gets young Indigenous people from the Northern Territory workplace ready.

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A woman enjoys the train ride through Sri Lanka tea plantations.

Six of the best: Elevated experiences in Sri Lanka

Travel by floatplane while in Sri Lanka, especially if you're short on time.

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Queenstown is the largest town on Tasmania's west coast.

Queenstown, Tasmania: Why you should visit and five things to do

I'm ashamed to admit I lived in Tasmania for more than a decade before discovering Queenstown.

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Tyax Adventure, South Chilcotin Mountains.

Canada: Six of the best floatplane flights in British Columbia

These flights inevitably involve outrageously beautiful scenery.

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Illustration: Jamie Brown

The raw beauty of roughing it

It might be just a camping cushion but it could mark the beginning of the end of this traveller's life in the rough.

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Don't obsess over the germ exchange.

The art of sharing food: How to deal with communal eating in West Africa

This was almost two decades ago when I first ate in this manner.

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