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Anabel Dean

Anabel Dean

Travel writer

Anabel Dean is a Sydney-based freelance travel journalist, with an expertise in arts writing, who began writing as a news reporter in London before joining The Sydney Morning Herald, and later The Bulletin, in a career that spans decades.

Postcard beauty: Hurtigruten Coastal Express between Bergen and Kirkenes.

This Arctic journey is a Viking (and foodie) fantasy

Cruising 2500 nautical miles along Norway’s ragged coastline enjoy port-to-plate gourmet local dishes along the way.

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Ornate luxury… Fountain Kaiservilla.

The mysteries of a lost dynasty and an emperor without a throne

 An audience with nobility highlights the fragility of ways of life, of monarchies, and even world peace.

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A frenzy of colour and movement … Garma Festival.

This stirring Top End festival is among the world’s greatest

The Garma Festival is an invitation to the clans to join in the diplomacy of kinship. It’s also a rare chance to engage with the world’s oldest living culture.

  • Anabel Dean
At the sanctuary, bears begin their lives all over again.

‘Nothing prepared me’: These rare, ‘wretched beauties’ will break your heart

Animals Asia grants limited access to visitors who want to help bring a species back from the brink of extinction while ending bear bile farming in Vietnam.

  • Anabel Dean
Shopping for a tailor in Hoi An can be an overwhelming experience.

Can an unknown Hoi An tailor create a fashion fantasy in seven hours?

Every generation in human history has had its own paragon of female beauty and Pamela Van has less than seven hours to realise mine.

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The hotel and its old facade.

This hotel is a city within a city, a world of its own

This German hotel offers a magnificent balance of modernity and history.

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The Medina is a labyrinth of 10,000 twisting alleyways only passable on foot.

The world’s largest car-free urban area is a maze

I’m told to forget maps, guidebooks and your phone: if you’re not born here, you’re going to get lost.

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A boat heads into Seven Spirit Bay.

‘World’s End’: The remote part of Australia the British failed to colonise

Why would anyone travel to the shark and croc infested waterways of the Cobourg Peninsula? There are plenty of reasons...

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Aerial view of the Ningaloo Reef coastline near the North Mandu campground tra13coverbiglap

A spine-tingling trip back in time in the home of the world’s biggest shark

The UNESCO World Heritage Ningaloo Coast is a living cultural landscape for traditional owners with ancient treasures to boot.

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Whistler's world class pedestrian village filled with shops, hotels and restaurants blanketed with fresh snow at dusk Whistler Canada

How to look ‘steezy’ in the snow capital of cool

Whistler-Blackcomb in Canada is the home of cool and consistently ranked as one of the world’s best ski resorts.

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