Brisbane

Brisbane is an alive, bustling city with all the requisite offerings of Australia's fastest growing capital. It includes the largest shopping precinct between Sydney and Singapore, a regional significant cultural precinct on the river's southern banks, a thriving pub, restaurant and live music scene and a dramatically wonderful alfresco focus.

Within the hour, however, the big city landscape gives way to lush rainforest canopies, towering waterfalls and rock pool swimming holes, tiny village hamlets rich with provincial cuisine, bohemians and artists.