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Boulder Beach, northern NSW. Picture: Amanda Robbemond
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The secret Coast beach with a twist

Few would have heard of this beach, much less visited. And while it’s easily accessible, it’s a bit different from your usual golden sands, blue water. Perhaps that’s what makes it so breathtaking.

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Dr Hal Rice is a neurointerventional radiologist who hosted a massive conference last year. Hal at his Southport practice with an MRI machine. Picture Glenn Hampson

‘Unsung’ heroes making city millions

A LITTLE-known collective of quiet achievers are using their intellectual muscle and vast array of global contacts to attract industry events worth millions to the Gold Coast each year.

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The Monastery from the ground at Petra in Jordan, Sept. 26, 2016. The building may be harder to get to but is much more majestic than the historical site's most well known structure, The Treasury. Petra, with its unique buildings carved out of red, white and orange stone, was declared one of the new seven wonders of the world in 2007. (AAP Image/Rebekah Ison) NO ARCHIVING

Journey back in time in Petra

TRAVEL to a world far removed from your own, one immortalised in poetry and unknown to the West until the 1800s, to a “rose-red city half as old as time”.

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Kawah Ijen Volcano, The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes in the Banyuwangi Regency of East Java, Indonesia. Photo: iStock

Exploring hot stuff in Indonesia

If Indonesian means Bali to you, then think about this — its just one of 17,000 islands that make up the nation. So how about visiting one where you can literally climb inside a volcano?

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Line dancers get some practice in before the show starts at the Country Gold country music festival at Mt Aso in Japan.

Striking country gold in Japan

WATCHING hundreds of line dancers going through their paces in front of a huge stage on the side of Mt Aso in Japan justified my decision to go to the Land of the Rising Sun for a holiday.

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