Australia's best beach towns

Summer is coming: Australia's best beach towns Backpacker haven is all grown up ... Airlie Beach, Queensland. Photo: Tourism Queensland With summer just around the corner, Ute Junker leaves no grain of sand unturned in her guide to the best beach towns on Australia's east coast. It's the great Australian summer ritual: packing up and heading for the beach. But not all beach towns are...

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Inside the Thrihnukagigur volcano, Iceland

Inside the Thrihnukagigur volcano, Iceland  This panorama can be opened in several different resolutions. High resolution panorama with the best quality is about 7 Mb large and it is suitable for fast internet connections and modern computers. For slower internet and old weak computers we created the smaller low resolution panorama. Some small details have been  sacrificed but the...

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The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia  Strange as it may seem, I will start the story about my trip to Australia from Ethiopia. Some believe that spending winter in Moscow is not the best idea, and so some people tend to escape winter's embrace to beaches with palms trees.  Photographers feel cold as well and also dream of sunny destinations. So a trip to Ethiopia in early January looked...

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