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Out of the ordinary A legendary surfing spot that’s now fun for the whole family BALI THE SUMMER OF THE 1300 786 856 COLLECTION Holidays Open to BROCHURE Call All Out Now! World Weekend! Deal of the Week! FULLY ESCORTED TOUR OF SRI LANKA ALILA SEMINYAK & UBUD COMBO NATURE, CULTURE & WILDLIFE SAFARI TOUR CONRAD BALI RESORT TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: • Explore beautiful • See Sigiriya Rock Fortress Yala National Park INCLUSIONS: from & Dumbulla Cave • Enjoy a city tour of Galle • Return airfares to Bali $1349 FREE $200 • Tour the Giragama Tea • Visit the Pinnawala • 4 Nights at Alila Seminyak Coles/Myer Plantation in Kandy, Tea Elephant Orphanage & • 3 Nights at Alila Ubud voucher per Museum in Hanthana & Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery • Return airport transfers plus inter-hotel couple* spice garden in Matale INCLUSIONS: transfers included INCLUSIONS: TWIN SHARE • Return airfares to Bali • Breakfast daily • Return airfares travelling from Perth to Colombo with Singapore Airlines • 6 nights at 5 Star Conrad Bali • Free upgrade to a Deluxe Room • 13 Day Fully Escorted Nature, Culture & Wildlife Safari Tour from • Breakfast Daily (at both resorts) • Deluxe accommodation throughout with breakfast included daily $4399 • 1 x 60 minute Spa Treatment for 2 adults • 1 x 60 Min Balinese massage for two • Transfers throughout the tour including scenic • 1 x dinner at Suku Restaurant for 2 adults at Alila Seminyak drives through the country side SOLO • Free WiFi

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PORTS: Hong Kong, Shanghai PORTS: Sydney, Isle of Pines, Mystery PORTS: Shanghai, Tianjin PORTS: Abu Dhabi, Muscat, (overnight), Seoul, Beijing FREE $100 Island, Lifou, Noumea, Sydney (2 nights), Seoul, Jeju Island, FREE $100 Aqaba (Jordan), Suez Canal, FREE $150 (overnight), Nagasaki, Coles/Myer Athens, Katakolon, Rome Kagoshima, Yokohama Nagasaki, Taipei, Hong Kong Coles/Myer Coles/Myer voucher per (overnight) voucher per voucher per INCLUSIONS: couple* INCLUSIONS: couple* INCLUSIONS: couple* • Airfare from Perth to Hong Kong • Return airfares to Sydney INCLUSIONS: • Airfare from Perth & Tokyo to Perth • 9 nights onboard Celebrity Solstice • Airfare from Perth to Shanghai to Abu Dhabi & Rome to Perth • 2 nights at a 4 Star Hong Kong Hotel • All meals, entertainment, taxes & Hong Kong to Perth • 2 nights at a 4 Star Abu Dhabi Hotel • 14 nights onboard Holland America • 15 nights onboard Celebrity Constellation ms Volendam & gratuities onboard • 2 nights at a 4 Star Shanghai Hotel • 14 nights onboard Celebrity Millennium • All meals, entertainment, taxes • All meals, entertainment & taxes onboard & gratuities onboard cruise • 2 nights at a 4 Star Tokyo Hotel • All meals, entertainment, taxes & gratuities onboard cruise • 2 nights at a from $2749 from $1549 from $2299 4 Star Rome Hotel from $3599

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PORTS: Yokohama, Aomori, PORTS: Sydney, Picton, PORTS: Barcelona, PORTS: Venice, Dubrovnik, Muroran, Kushiro, Kodiak, GlacierFREE $200 Wellington, Papeete, Moorea, FREE $200 Cartagena, Gibraltar, Lisbon, FREE $150 Valletta, Rome, Florence, Nice, FREE $150 Bay, Ketchikan, Vancouver Coles/Myer Bora Bora, Honolulu Coles/Myer St. Peter Port, Paris/Normandy, Coles/Myer Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Coles/Myer INCLUSIONS: voucher per voucher per Brussels, Amsterdam voucher per Barcelona voucher per couple* INCLUSIONS: couple* couple* couple* • Airfare from Perth to Tokyo & Vancouver INCLUSIONS: INCLUSIONS: to Perth • Airfare from Perth to Sydney • 17 nights onboard Radiance of the Seas • Airfare from Perth to Barcelona • Airfare from Perth to Venice • 2 nights at a 4 Star Tokyo Hotel & Amsterdam to Perth & Barcelona to Perth • 16 nights onboard Holland • All meals, entertainment, taxes America ms Volendam & gratuities onboard cruise • 2 nights at a 4 Star Barcelona hotel • 2 nights at a 4 Star Venice Hotel • All meals, entertainment & taxes onboard • BONUS up to $100 onboard credit per cabin • 10 nights onboard Vision of the Seas • 11 nights onboard Vision of the Seas • 3 nights at a 4 Star Vancouver Hotel • 4 nights at a central Waikiki Hotel • All meals, entertainment, taxes • All meals, entertainment, taxes • Airfare from & gratuities onboard & gratuities onboard cruise from Honolulu to Perth from • 2 nights at a 4 Star from • 2 nights at a from $3899 $4499 Amsterdam hotel $3299 4 Star Barcelona Hotel $3399

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SHORTCUTS P7 HAWAII P12 The resurgence of an instrument of smiles. CRUISING P15 We’ve been MAURITIUS P16 updating A mountain-climbing sevenwesttravel TRUMPET CALL FOR TRICIA adventure provides a club.com.au daily Here’s something to trumpet poignant insight into throughout the about. Perth’s favourite elephant, the island’s history. week, with recent Tricia, is turning 60 and Perth Zoo WA P24 stories including: is having a suitably big party on High times on new heli ᔡ Queensland’s January 28 and 29 to celebrate. tours around our State. quirkiest events, Families are encouraged to pack a WA SHORTCUTS P25 from cockroach picnic, share a memory, draw BALI P4 IRELAND P20 races to a Mary Tricia’s picture or write in her Steve Penn visits a surfer’s paradise on the Long overlooked by travellers, charming Send information Poppins festival in gigantic birthday card. There will island’s east coast, and finds a resort with Westport, on the Emerald Isle’s mid-west and letters to author PL Travers’ be live performers, games, face plenty to keep all of the family happy. coast, is now enjoying a new-found cache. [email protected] birthplace of painting, a water slide and more. Maryborough. Tricia arrived from Singapore in ᔡ Britain in bloom: 1963 and is one of Perth Zoo’s showcased elephant polo, elephant Surveying Flores is no mean feat as it QUICK CONNECTION horticultural shows longest and best-loved residents. calf football, and there was an covers 13,540sqkm. Counting Garuda Indonesia flies to Komodo via for garden lovers She’s named after the 1962 Miss elephant beauty contest, elephant dragons is no mean feat as they grow Bali — if you leave Perth at 8am, you beyond the Australia, Tricia Reschke. picnic and elephant painting. up to 3m long, weigh up to can connect in Denpasar and be perennially popular 130kg and have nasty there at 3.45pm for $735 return. Chelsea Flower BABY BONUS BOOST NO GAME FOR PACHYDERMS teeth and mean feet. Show. Chester Zoo, which was featured When there were protests over a BANKING ON SUCCESS ᔡ The UK travel in the ABC TV series Our Zoo, is Thai elephant polo festival last year SMALL SAILS The World Bank is involved in the agency tackling celebrating the birth of a rare (the sport dreamed up by two British There are small-boat development of Indonesia’s new top inequality in Asian elephant calf to 12-year-old chaps in 1982), British author Dame sailings to Komodo from 10 priority tourist destinations. Vice tourism by funding mum Sundara. Keepers say the Daphne Sheldrick was reported as Lombok. The president Jusuf Kalla recently trips for local kids new addition is a huge boost to saying: “Elephants are not designed live-aboard Phinisi held a meeting to discuss loans in Africa for every the species’ breeding program. to play polo and nor should they.” Boat Charter for infrastructure development. holiday it books. Asian elephants are listed as leaves Komodo Komodo and Flores are on the ᔡ The cutting-edge endangered by the International TRUNK CALL for Flores and list, as is the south-eastern piece of wearable Union for Conservation of Nature. . . . it all leads me to ask, why are the Komodo coast of Lombok, called technology aiming elephants we’ve been talking about National Park, Mandalika, which has been to revolutionise the THUMBS UP TO MOVE here smaller than African elephants? and Lombok earmarked as a “high-end, cruising experience Many travel companies embracing Answer: Because they’re truncations. Komodo fully integrated tourist by acting as your responsible tourism have decided Sailing says it resort site”. very own personal not to support elephant trekking KOMODO CONSERVATION has the only concierge. or elephant riding. G Adventures Chester Zoo, working with partners sailing schooner FLOWERS OF FAITH led the way: “We do not promote Komodo Survival Program on the doing the trip. While we know Indonesia elephant trekking or elephant island of Komodo, east of Bali, has as the world’s most ON THE COVER riding on any G Adventures trips in discovered two new populations of STYLISH CRUISING populous Muslim country (it’s Hotel Komune, order to ensure the health and Komodo dragons. The Komodo Ponant’s swish estimated that nearly 90 per cent Keramas, Bali. safety of these animals and reduce dragon is listed as vulnerable on the L’Austral expedition of its approximately 250 million Picture: Supplied the demand for these practices. IUCN Red List. A spokesperson for cruise ship leaves Bali people follow Islam) and think of Furthermore, we do not promote Chester Zoo says: “With our support, on September 22 for Bali as the exception (a Hindu trips that include, as part of the KSP have expanded their work a new 12-day Discover enclave), the 1.8 million people of itinerary or optional extras, a visit further and are now in their second Indonesia voyage, Flores are almost entirely Roman to any establishment to see year of a complete population survey calling at Taka Catholic. The island was named To purchase or browse trained elephants perform for the of the Indonesian island of Flores and Bonerate and its by the Portuguese for the Cape more great travel public.” its surrounding islands. At the end of amazing marine of Flowers — Cabo de Flores — on photos from The West’s the study, the data will be used to parks, and Flores, the eastern part of the island. award-winning MORE ELEPHANTINE NEWS create a long-term conservation which it describes as photographic team, The recent five-day Chitwan action plan for the Komodo dragon “unspoiled and little Stephen Scourfield visit westpix.com.au Elephant Festival in Nepal across the whole of Indonesia.” known to tourists”. Travel Editor today. Digital downloads, framed and unframed prints, and canvases are Features editor Jenni Storey 9482 3787 Travel editor Stephen Scourfield 9482 3095 Travel journalists Niall McIlroy 9482 3250, available. Gemma Nisbet 9482 3790, Angie Tomlinson 9482 3145 Travel sales co-ordinator Shannen Leonhardt 9482 3474 Travel sales executives Jennifer Green 9482 3477, Sarah Owen 9482 3481, Scott Robinson 9482 3504 @sevenwesttravelclub

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BALI Urbanscapes Photo Walk Join Travel Lead Photographer Mogens Johansen as he starts you on the professional path towards beautiful landscape photography. Even if you know the theories of landscape photography, applying them on the run whilst traveling requires practice. There is nowhere better to practice this than out in the field. We will be holding this 3-hour course close to the metropolitan area which has all the features and challenges to practice landscape photography. Tickets are just $25 and limited to 20 people. Register at sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/events.

May Hotel Komune overlooks one of the world’s top surfing sports, on the east Bali coast. 7

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Feb 12 Perfect break where you can Komune with nature

Meet the Team #5 chance to visit Hotel ticket to Bali and find this Travel Editor Stephen Scourfield is always looking This purpose-built resort at Komune at Keramas unspoilt piece of paradise. for new destinations and new aspects to those Keramas Beach is ideal for Beach on Bali’s east Arriving after trekking he knows well. He brings a wealth of experience coast was an through rice paddies from The pool is the perfect post-surf, chill-out zone. to the world of travel. Join us for a glass of wine surfers and their families, opportunity to tick a Ubud, he saw the potential as Stephen brings new suggestions and refreshes Awave off my bucket list. immediately. The Hotel Komune our ideas about some well-known places. This writes STEVE PENN is a great chance to meet Stephen, have a Every surfer has their top 10: dream was born. quick chat and ask some questions. Register at surf magazine images etched in Mr Cannon purchased a plot sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/events. your memory with the hope of land behind the shoreline PREMIUM JOURNEYS AT EXCEPTIONAL VALUE they’ll one day become reality. warungs and took his vision to BALI Those waves you want to enjoy friends, Fitness First founder With the perfect balance of comprehensive inclusions, key sightseeing and more free time, with a bunch of mates, or Tony de Leede and former pro Travelmarvel oﬀ ers premium journeys through Vietnam & Cambodia at truly exceptional value. monsters you’d sit out safely in surfer Luke Egan. Included – All internal ﬂ ights within Vietnam & Cambodia, tipping, transfers, onboard meals, the channel, a witness to their Employing award-winning and port charges Kuta Keramas raw power, size and beauty. Italian architect Giovanni Included – Tour Director and small group shore excursions with local guides Keramas is both. Breaking D’Ambrosio, the mates set VIETNAM & Included – Cruising on the boutique RV La Marguerite, with exceptional onboard facilities Mar 50m from shore over a sharp, about building a low-key resort Included – Travelmarvel’s Insider Experiences off ering unique sightseeing, special stays and 2 shallow black-lava ledge, it’s that’s eco-friendly but memorable meals throughout your holiday widely regarded as one of the up-market and caters for Experience authentic Asia with an Australian owned and operated company planet’s most fun high- surfers and their families CAMBODIA Creative Photography performance right-handers. wanting an escape from the Essential Vietnam Discover of Vietnam Travel and photography go hand in hand — and When it’s big, it becomes a chaos and commotion of the here is the chance to develop your creative skills barrelling beast I’ll happily west coast. & Cambodia & Cambodia and get more from your travel photography. leave to the pros. “We wanted a resort that, 12 Days From FLY FREE* 17 Days From FLY FREE* Travel Photographer Mogens Johansen In 2013, Keramas rocketed when you’re sitting in the PP Twin Share $3,995* PP Twin Share $6,395* and Travel Editor Stephen Scourfield have into my top five after witnessing line-up looking back at the developed a half-day course to teach you more Australian Joel Parkinson claim beach, blends into the beauty of Ha Long about composition and to help you ‘get your the Oakley Pro Bali in perfect the natural surroundings,” Mr Hanoi 2 eye in’ before you go traveling. It is a natural four-to-six foot waves. He later Cannon explained. 7 follow-up to Photographic Fundamentals, which Angkor Wat described the event as one of In 2012, the first stage of the Siem Reap 2 RV 2 teaches more about camera equipment and Cambodia La Marguerite Ha Long settings. We suggest to book as a pair. The cost the best he’d ever surfed. Every plan opened to the public: 66 Kampong Bay Cruise for entry is $75 for Gold Members (50% off). year since, pros have headed four-star rooms set quietly Chhnang Prek K’dam Vietnam Koh Chen Register at sevenwesttravelclub.com.au/events. back to compete against hot- among the lush tropical Angkor Vietnam Phnom Penh My Tho Ho Chi Cambodia 7 shot locals and international gardens, plus a beachfront bar 3 2 Minh City Siem Reap RV up-and-comers in the Komune and pool. Tan Chau Cai Be (Saigon) Kampong Chhnang La Marguerite Feb Bali Pro. Back-to-back winner Locally owned warungs that Sa Dec Prek K’dam Koh Chen Taj Burrow described the event had been damaged during a Phnom Penh My Tho 19 Mekong River 2 Ho Chi as one of the most fun he’d ever large swell were rebuilt into a Tan Chau Cai Be Minh City taken part in. modern two-storey structure in Sa Dec (Saigon) Whispers of this right-hander the classic Balinese, thatched- VTMR12 VTM17 in the late 90s led to magazine hut style. Large floodlights were shoots in the 2000s. One of these installed to illuminate the break — a shot from a helicopter from dusk until dawn — Member of Order your 1300 510 437 showing Andy and Bruce Irons’ Keramas is the only world-class the APT free brochure ( travelmarvel.com.au/Vietnam2017

3313764-17GBCY01092017 Travel Group aerial assault on this “secret” wave on the planet that’s today or see your local travel agent break — was enough to prompt surfable 24 hours a day. *Conditions apply. SEE: travelmarvel.com.au/specialdeals for full conditions. Prices are per person (pp), AUD, twin share and include port charges. Prices are correct as at 9 January 2017. Prices based on VTMR12: 23 July 2017 (Cat. C) and VTM17: 8 August 2017 (Cat. C). ALL OFFERS: Limited suites on set departures are available and are subject to availability. sevenwesttravelclub.com.au The fruit bowl skate park keeps kids — and dads — Aussie surfer and property The warung’s top deck is used DEPOSITS: A ﬁ rst non-refundable deposit of $1,000 pp is due within 7 days of booking. Australian Paciﬁ c Touring Pty Ltd. ABN 44 004 684 619. ATAS accreditation #A10825. TM3394 occupied for hours. developer Tony Cannon to buy a by Komune to host surf events, sevenwesttravelclub.com.au sevenwesttravelclub.com.au Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions 4 Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions January 14- 15,2017 January 14- 15,2017 5

Floodlights enhance night surfing.

Yoga classes are held at the resort. Locals operate the downstairs area with cheap food, a pool table, board hire and repairs available. Catch it if you can — surf balance training.

private wedding receptions and bed or while taking a dip in the groms if they can keep the yoga classes. The bottom level is your private pool. They’re the dads off it. run by the locals and has a pool latest stage in an ever-growing Having recently had shoulder Perfect break where you table, board hire, cheap eats and plan that now includes three surgery, I could unfortunately the quickest top-quality ding villas and a corporate function only witness this bucket-list repairs on the island. It’s a room, while areas of rice wave. Limited to shore, pool and partnership that has helped paddies owned by the guys will bar activities, I decided to preserve the original character be developed as new ideas take explore the resort from the can Komune with nature and charm of surfing at this shape. better half’s perspective by now-famous break. One project currently under visiting the kid-free Health Hub. I stayed in one of the new five- way is a free-range kids’ zone It’s housed in a collection of ticket to Bali and find this star beach-view pool suites. including a pool, flying fox, 300-year-old joglos — steep- unspoilt piece of paradise. These 22 luxurious rooms are petting zoo and “the fruit bowl” roofed wooden homes imported Arriving after trekking set just high enough for you to — a freshly painted skate park ...... through rice paddies from The pool is the perfect post-surf, chill-out zone. spot check from your king-size which will be a huge hit with ៑CONTINUED P6 Ubud, he saw the potential immediately. The Hotel Komune dream was born. Mr Cannon purchased a plot of land behind the shoreline PREMIUM JOURNEYS AT EXCEPTIONAL VALUE warungs and took his vision to friends, Fitness First founder With the perfect balance of comprehensive inclusions, key sightseeing and more free time, Tony de Leede and former pro Travelmarvel off ers premium journeys through Vietnam & Cambodia at truly exceptional value. surfer Luke Egan. Included – All internal fl ights within Vietnam & Cambodia, tipping, transfers, onboard meals, Employing award-winning and port charges Italian architect Giovanni Included – Tour Director and small group shore excursions with local guides D’Ambrosio, the mates set VIETNAM & Included – Cruising on the boutique RV La Marguerite, with exceptional onboard facilities about building a low-key resort Included – Travelmarvel’s Insider Experiences off ering unique sightseeing, special stays and that’s eco-friendly but memorable meals throughout your holiday up-market and caters for Experience authentic Asia with an Australian owned and operated company surfers and their families CAMBODIA wanting an escape from the chaos and commotion of the Essential Vietnam Discover of Vietnam west coast. & Cambodia & Cambodia “We wanted a resort that, 12 Days From FLY FREE* 17 Days From FLY FREE* when you’re sitting in the PP Twin Share $3,995* PP Twin Share $6,395* line-up looking back at the beach, blends into the beauty of Ha Long the natural surroundings,” Mr Hanoi 2 Cannon explained. Angkor Wat 7 In 2012, the first stage of the Siem Reap 2 RV 2 Cambodia La Marguerite Ha Long plan opened to the public: 66 Kampong Bay Cruise four-star rooms set quietly Chhnang Prek K’dam Vietnam among the lush tropical Koh Chen Angkor Vietnam Phnom Penh My Tho Ho Chi Cambodia 7 gardens, plus a beachfront bar 3 2 Minh City Siem Reap RV and pool. Tan Chau Cai Be (Saigon) Kampong Chhnang La Marguerite Locally owned warungs that Sa Dec Prek K’dam Koh Chen had been damaged during a Phnom Penh My Tho Mekong River 2 Ho Chi large swell were rebuilt into a Tan Chau Cai Be Minh City modern two-storey structure in Sa Dec (Saigon) the classic Balinese, thatched- VTMR12 VTM17 hut style. Large floodlights were installed to illuminate the break from dusk until dawn — Member of Order your 1300 510 437 Keramas is the only world-class the APT free brochure ( travelmarvel.com.au/Vietnam2017 Travel Group wave on the planet that’s today or see your local travel agent surfable 24 hours a day. *Conditions apply. SEE: travelmarvel.com.au/specialdeals for full conditions. Prices are per person (pp), AUD, twin share and include port charges. Prices are correct as at 9 January 2017. Prices based on VTMR12: 23 July 2017 (Cat. C) and VTM17: 8 August 2017 (Cat. C). ALL OFFERS: Limited suites on set departures are available and are subject to availability. The warung’s top deck is used DEPOSITS: A fi rst non-refundable deposit of $1,000 pp is due within 7 days of booking. Australian Pacifi c Touring Pty Ltd. ABN 44 004 684 619. ATAS accreditation #A10825. TM3394 by Komune to host surf events, sevenwesttravelclub.com.au 6 Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions January 14- 15,2017

BALI Checking out the ...... surf from Hotel ្FROM P5 Komune’s pool. from Java and reassembled plank by plank to create the serene atmosphere of a traditional village. There are 10 massage rooms, a yoga studio and a fully equipped air-conditioned gym staffed by trainers including former West Coast Eagle Chad fact file Fletcher, plus a lap and relaxation pool, beauty spa and Watermelon pizza. ᔡ Packages at Hotel Komune Bali include a five-night Eat Play Surf package including resort juice bar with a healthy room accommodation, daily breakfast, five 30-minute massages, two night surfing sessions, five breakfast and lunch menu of on our first night. Perfect, night yoga or fitness sessions, daily sunset cocktails and a dinner for $US726 ($993) per person. locally grown produce (a two’s menu selection sorted. komuneresorts.com/keramasbali. watermelon pizza must be For all Komune’s natural healthy, right?) beauty and architectural I have a rule on holidays to brilliance, one very special always follow the locals’ feature can slip past you with recommendations. A mistake in just a smile. The staff of almost Paris — duck gizzards aren’t my 180 are nearly all proud locals cup of tea — but the first of employed from the Keramas many at Komune was village, from front desk to the exceptional. “You have to try lifeguards on the beach and the the four-hand massage,” Tony driver meeting you off the de Leede told me. This hour- plane. long choreography of rhythmic Komune has at its core the strokes and pressure techniques classic surf trip to Indonesia: For more from Bali, is performed by two deceptively the chance to tick a wave off the Steve Penn joins Niall strong Balinese therapists. If bucket list that you’d only McIlroy on the latest two hands are better than one, surfed in your mind. then four plus feet are sublime. Wrap that in five-star luxury episode of the Travel “Mate, make sure you try the and you have the ideal place to Club Show at chicken schnitty before you take the whole family. sevenwesttravel leave,” general manager Wayne ...... Moffat advised as we tucked ᔡ Steve Penn was a guest of Hotel club.com.au. into sesame-crusted tuna steak Komune Bali. A private pool outside one of the villas.

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MAURITIUS Rocky road through a sad history GEMMA NISBET climbs a mountain of deep significance to the locals

e’re more than Port Louis halfway up Le Morne Brabant MAURITIUS when things start to get interesting. Le Morne WFaced by a rocky incline too steep for us to scale simply by walking up, our small group has come to a halt. Our guide, Yan de Maroussem, of Yanature, is explaining how to proceed. Enjoying the view near the summit of Le Morne mountain. Pictures: Gemma Nisbet “You are going to need your hands,” he says. guide sufficiently skilled I definitely feel her legs after a limits but this is a magnificent I’ll admit, when I was told I’d suspect he could get anyone week spent hiking and scuba spot, perched high on the be climbing Le Morne mountain with a basic modicum of fitness diving. “I love that feeling,” Yan eastern side of the mountain. I assumed there had been some to the summit and back in says. We can see the forests and miscommunication. I’d seen the safety. Eventually we arrive at the mountains of the interior, the mountain, which rises We’d set out earlier that final, tricky section. Yan has villages and settlements along intimidatingly steep and craggy morning, climbing through the some advice on the the coast, the aqua of the from the coast of south-west bush under a clear, blue sky as practicalities of how we should fringing lagoon, the ring of Mauritius. What I hadn’t the rising sun cast a glow across approach the climb but also on white breakers along the reef counted on was Yan, a man so the landscape. Le Morne is mindset. Be in the present, he and then the vivid blue ocean, fit he gives the impression of significant for many reasons — tells us. “Enjoy every moment,” stretching towards the horizon. being ready to run a marathon the most important of which I’ll he adds. The cross is here, too, its at a moment’s notice and a return to later — and one of It might sound a bit hippy- metal structure enclosing the them is its concentration of rare dippy but it turns out to be solid remains of an older wooden and endemic plant species, advice. Every time I feel version. Both are a memorial to Making our way back down Le Morne mountain. some of which Yan points out as challenged or overstretched, I Le Morne’s sad history — a we walk. focus on the task at hand: history that continues to hold a slaves hiding on the mountain We pause regularly to allow finding footholds for my hands deep significance for many who tragically jumped to their those at the back of the group to and my feet, sometimes using Mauritians. deaths after seeing some catch up and to admire the the ropes secured along the trail As Yan tells us, in the days of soldiers approaching, not views, which are spectacular to steady myself, gradually slavery on the island, before its knowing slavery had been even on Le Morne’s lower making my way towards our abolition in the 1830s, escaped outlawed since their escape and reaches. Looking up, Yan shows goal. Every now and again, I slaves would hide in the caves that they were free. It’s stories us where we’re headed: a metal remind myself to look up — at on Le Morne’s western side. such as this that have given the cross perched near the summit, the view and at the cross, which Some tried to build boats to mountain its name: Le Morne, just visible against the sky. appears to grow gradually escape to their homelands in the Mournful One. “Now we can start to feel the bigger as we approach. Madagascar and Africa. And The facts of some of this have mountain,” he tells us, as the Finally, sweaty and hot under some are said to have leapt from been difficult for historians to climb gets steeper and more the warming sun, we reach our the mountain if threatened with substantiate — though, Yan tells challenging. One member of the goal. The absolute summit of Le recapture. us, evidence of human group, a young American Morne, 556m above sea level, is One well-known local story habitation has been found in Le Guide Yan de Maroussem leads the way up Le Morne mountain. woman, jokes that she can a nature reserve and is off tells of a group of escaped Morne’s caves.

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fact file ᔡ The land around Le Morne is privately owned but Yanature has access to take hiking groups 1 through. The 3 ⁄2-4 hour hike with Yanature costs 1500 Mauritian rupees ($57). Yanature Enjoying the view near the summit of Le Morne mountain. Pictures: Gemma Nisbet also offers a selection of other hiking, birdwatching and A commemorative limits but this is a magnificent trail-running tours. cross near the spot, perched high on the trekkingmauritius.com. summit of Le Morne eastern side of the mountain. ᔡ Local tour operator Emotions mountain. We can see the forests and can help with organising day mountains of the interior, the trips, including hiking at Le villages and settlements along Morne. emotionsdmc.com. the coast, the aqua of the ᔡ Air Mauritius flies direct from fringing lagoon, the ring of Perth to Mauritius twice a week, white breakers along the reef three times a week from July 7, and then the vivid blue ocean, and four flights a week during stretching towards the horizon. the peak summer period. It also The cross is here, too, its has connecting flights to Paris, metal structure enclosing the London and African destinations, The view over the lagoon and the remains of an older wooden with a free stopover of up to white breakers of the fringing reef. version. Both are a memorial to Making our way back down Le Morne mountain. two nights if no same-day Le Morne’s sad history — a connection is available. Travel are chirping. The bush is dotted history that continues to hold a slaves hiding on the mountain Regardless, the cultural agents, airmauritius.com or with small flowers and yellow deep significance for many who tragically jumped to their significance is substantial and 1800 247 628. butterflies flit past. Mauritians. deaths after seeing some in recognition of this UNESCO Back at the base, Yan tells us As Yan tells us, in the days of soldiers approaching, not added Le Morne to the World we now share in Le Morne’s See more from slavery on the island, before its knowing slavery had been Heritage list in 2008. way up that getting down might story — “its history belongs to Mauritius with abolition in the 1830s, escaped outlawed since their escape and And the cross? It was brought be tricky. But, when it comes you, too, now you have been up slaves would hide in the caves that they were free. It’s stories up here by Yan and some time to head back, Yan — as there”. I look back up at the our Travel Club on Le Morne’s western side. such as this that have given the friends, who carried it up in always — has the answers. mountain, searching for the Show video at Some tried to build boats to mountain its name: Le Morne, pieces on foot. I ask whether He directs us to take our time outline of the cross high on its sevenwesttravel escape to their homelands in the Mournful One. this was difficult — it’s big and and to sit and shuffle along on craggy sides. club.com.au. Madagascar and Africa. And The facts of some of this have looks heavy — but he just our bottoms when we get to I can’t see it from here but I some are said to have leapt from been difficult for historians to shrugs: “Not really.” In 2004, he steep sections. It’s fairly slow know it’s there all the same. the mountain if threatened with substantiate — though, Yan tells says, he led a local bishop, a going — not least because we’re ...... recapture. us, evidence of human keen hiker, up here so he could all definitely feeling our legs by ᔡ Gemma Nisbet visited Mauritius as a One well-known local story habitation has been found in Le bless it. now — but no one’s in a rush. guest of Air Mauritius and tells of a group of escaped Morne’s caves. It had occurred to me on the The sun’s shining and the birds Emotions.

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IRELAND Gems unearthed in Emerald Isle or such a small Moher, foreign accents are conversation with intrigued country, Ireland has a almost as common as the Irish locals in Mayo. RONAN lot of secrets. The brogue. Each of these places is When I tell them I actually O’CONNELL Emerald Isle is so embedded in Ireland’s traveller live in Mayo, they are equal petite it could fit inside trail. Just a one or two-hour parts surprised and delighted. reveals some WAF some 30 times over, yet drive away are towns, But where Mayo was once scenic secrets many of the more than seven landscapes and heritage sites among the poorest and most million tourists who visit every bit as beguiling as these unfashionable counties in along the Ireland each year still somehow tourist magnets, with a fraction Ireland, it now has a new-found Republic’s manage to miss some of its of the visitors. cache. This is, to a significant finest locations. The west coast, north of extent, due to the appeal of one spectacular In downtown Dublin, the Ring Galway, is particularly of its largest towns, Westport. west coast of Kerry, a Galway pub or the overlooked. That’s starting to People really want to own a countryside around the Cliffs of change because of the recent house in Westport. It’s been establishment of the Wild Breathtaking Achill Island. voted the best place to live in Atlantic Way, a marked 2600km Ireland. That decision came as drive that skirts the entire even more spectacular than the no surprise to Mayo residents western fringe of Ireland. world-renowned Cliffs of such as myself. It has been a brilliant Moher. Long before I ever lived in marketing ploy by Ireland’s Then there are the concealed Ireland, I was well acquainted tourism authorities, which has delights of County Mayo, on the with the charms of Westport, Hikers descend Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holiest mountain. Pictures: Ronan O’Connell given travellers a reason to mid-west coast — the place I’ve which is just 30 minutes from venture beyond the ever- lived the past two years on-and- the Mayo town where I would along with the traditional music popular counties of Dublin, off while travelling the world. stay while on holidays visiting played in the lively pubs that Cork, Kerry, Clare and Galway. Before the Wild Atlantic Way, my Irish family. line its streets. The epic route takes drivers tourism in Mayo was almost Westport is, to me, the best Yet its popularity as a place to past some of the country’s non-existent. town in Ireland. Yet you’ve live or holiday among Irish hidden gems, such as the While my Australian accent probably never heard of it. people has seen it develop a astonishing sea cliffs of County never raises an eyebrow down It’s as genuinely Irish as cosmopolitan edge — just Donegal’s Slieve League, which in Galway, Cork or Kerry, it has anywhere I’ve been — home to enough to give it a modern buzz The beaches near Westport are famously pristine. are higher and, in my opinion, kickstarted many a down-to-earth people who sing without affecting what makes it an authentic place. Complementing its rustic pubs are chic cafes with great coffee and elegant restaurants serving quality food. SAVOUR THE JOURNEY Family-run clothing shops ICONIC CAPITALS. HIDDEN GEMS. DISCOVER EUROPE IN 2017. selling traditional Aran wool sweaters are in loose competition with stylish boutiques stocked with local and foreigner designer garments. It’s only a small town, with a population of about 6000 people. But there are enough shops, pubs and eateries to fill a day or two comfortably. I would advise not getting too ~ caught up in the town itself, VIEW & VERANDAH SALE! THE BALTIC TO THE BIG APPLE though, as the true allure of FREE stateroom UPGRADE • Up to US$400 onboard credit per stateroom Copenhagen to New York | ms Zuiderdam Westport is its status as the • 10% off select Journeys AshoreTM 30 night cruise departs 11 August 2017 gateway to some of Ireland’s

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Onboard credit is in USD, is per stateroom, and is only applicable if two (or more) guests are in the cabin, is non-refundable, not for cash value, expires at the end of that cruise, and may not be used in the Casino. ^The Cruiseco Advantage: receive an additional US$100^ onboard credit per stateroomfor Interior, Oceanview and Verandah cabin categories. Some Oceanview staterooms may have obstructed views. +Excludes speciality restaurants. Cancellation penalties and conditions apply. Ask your travel agent for details. sevenwesttravelclub.com.au sevenwesttravelclub.com.au Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions 20 Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions January 14- 15,2017 January 14- 15,2017 21 Gems unearthed in Emerald Isle conversation with intrigued locals in Mayo. When I tell them I actually live in Mayo, they are equal parts surprised and delighted. But where Mayo was once among the poorest and most unfashionable counties in Ireland, it now has a new-found cache. This is, to a significant extent, due to the appeal of one Westport has been voted the best place to live in Ireland. of its largest towns, Westport. People really want to own a house in Westport. It’s been fact file voted the best place to live in Ireland. That decision came as ᔡ On the last Sunday in July each year, more than 20,000 no surprise to Mayo residents pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick mountain, on the outskirts of such as myself. Westport, as part of one of Long before I ever lived in Ireland’s most ancient religious Ireland, I was well acquainted traditions. with the charms of Westport, Hikers descend Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holiest mountain. Pictures: Ronan O’Connell ᔡ The Wild Atlantic Way is one of which is just 30 minutes from the world’s most spectacular the Mayo town where I would along with the traditional music most extraordinary landscapes. challenges the famed Ring of coastal driving routes, starting at stay while on holidays visiting played in the lively pubs that In the countryside Kerry for scenery, with a string the Inishowen Peninsula in the Westport my Irish family. line its streets. immediately surrounding of beaches so gorgeous they northern County Donegal and DUBLIN Westport is, to me, the best Yet its popularity as a place to Westport, you can find pristine would impress even a West stretching all the way south to IRELAND town in Ireland. Yet you’ve live or holiday among Irish beaches, a stunning natural Australian. Several of them are Kinsale in County Cork. probably never heard of it. people has seen it develop a harbour, the country’s most backed by craggy cliffs which It’s as genuinely Irish as cosmopolitan edge — just famous mountain and, just off are topped by green grass and anywhere I’ve been — home to enough to give it a modern buzz the coast, some majestic, inhabited by hardy mountain holiest mountain Croagh down-to-earth people who sing without affecting what makes it untamed islands. Only sheep, their black faces and feet Patrick stands watch over an authentic place. Westport’s out-of-the-way contrasting against their cream Westport. Up to a million people Complementing its rustic location has prevented it from coats. each year make the pilgrimage pubs are chic cafes with great becoming saturated with Achill is actually connected to to Croagh Patrick, as part of a coffee and elegant restaurants tourists. the mainland by a short bridge tradition that has an serving quality food. The adventurous souls of and there is no more uninterrupted history of more SAVOUR THE JOURNEY Family-run clothing shops Ireland flock here for the array invigorating way to reach it than 5000 years. ICONIC CAPITALS. HIDDEN GEMS. DISCOVER EUROPE IN 2017. selling traditional Aran wool of adventure-sport activities, from Westport than by cycling Famously, St Patrick fasted sweaters are in loose which include climbing, the Greenway. for 40 days on its summit, competition with stylish kayaking, coasteering, This cycle path cuts through almost 1600 years ago. boutiques stocked with local snorkelling, swimming, hiking, the raw landscape, offering a A chapel has been built on and foreigner designer zorbing and paragliding. smooth riding surface and this spot and pilgrims make the garments. There’s also surfing on Achill distracting views. 750m climb to attend masses It’s only a small town, with a Island, which is just off the Clare Island is more difficult and confessions inside. From up population of about 6000 people. coast to the north of Westport, to reach but equally rewarding. here, Westport looks positively But there are enough shops, through the gorgeous Clew Bay. There is a sense of having minuscule, a subtle brushstroke pubs and eateries to fill a day or This natural bay also boasts skipped back many decades on a magnificent green canvas. two comfortably. hundreds of tiny islands, which when you land here after a Such is the extraordinary I would advise not getting too can be reached by boat or 10-minute ferry ride. beauty of the landscape that it’s ~ caught up in the town itself, kayak. You’re unlikely to encounter a easy to overlook this town, VIEW & VERANDAH SALE! 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Exploring is for everyone. Even young children will grow with new sights and surrounds. TIM DAWE visits a distinctive playground in Canberra.

anberra. Love it or loathe it, Australia’s bush capital is different. Even critics agree it’s a good place Cfor young families. My last visit fact file was my first to the arboretum, arriving with two children — ᔡ The National Arboretum Canberra is 6km two under two. Giant wooden acorn pods at National Arboretum Canberra. Pictures: Tim Dawe from the Canberra CBD on Forest Drive, off The 250ha National Tuggeranong Parkway in Weston Creek. Arboretum Canberra arose Now back to the excited Wide-angle views show ᔡ The Pod Playground is open daily from from the ashes of the 2003 nearly two-year-old. We drive glimpses of a formed lake, a 7am-5.30pm and 6am-8.30pm during daylight Christmas bushfires. From 2005, steadily up, and up, past a tower on a black mountain and savings. For more information, go to it was planted with 94 forests of squiggly shaped “ski slope” — a large flag above a square, nationalarboretum.act.gov.au. rare, endangered and symbolic central valley walk — to the silver flagpole. And at another trees from Australia and the Village Centre, a stunning, angle, a “wide brown land” world including giant redwood, timber-vaulted, light-filled sculpture honours Dorothea the Pod Playground. At first dragon tree and wollemi pine. space with restaurant, gift shop Mackellar’s poetry. sight, this playground presents Eleven more forest plots are and cafe. With pram stowed and A few baby steps away is the surreal figures from science planned. And, like my mantra the nearly-three-month-old National Bonsai and Penjing fiction — all twisty-turny. on Canberra, “it’ll be really asleep, we have a babycino with Collection. It’s the perfect Nearly-two is keen but not great in a few decades”. Tiny Teddies and survey the height for nearly-two. rushed; there’s time to examine It’s a museum, a gallery and a landscape. It still looks like a Further away are a large an insect and doodle in sand. laboratory all about trees. dairy farm with squares of amphitheatre and the soaring Mum feeds nearly-three- And it’s important. saplings. Margaret Whitlam Pavilion. months. Left for another visit are Giant interconnected wooden specialised walking tracks for acorn pods stand on metal stilts humans and horses. in a sandpit. Climb a ladder, They’re all well and good but walk through wood-panel we’re here for the main event — passages with turning things, crawl through scary net tunnels and we’re way up — 4m high. Now what? Nearly-two EXCLUSIVE HOSTED bravely sits on my legs as we slide down and around in CRUISE PACKAGE darkness to shoot out of the Boutique ship OCEANIA MARINA tube on to sunny sand. “Again?” 12 nights begins Stockholm 18th June 2017 For less thrill-seeking fun, there are the big bad banksia men (cones) cubbies with speaking tubes and hidey-holes, and nest swings. There’s also a charming bridge of bells for the littlies. Older kids find the PRICES FROM climbing wall. $ The Pod Playground is a 6,940 wonderland of whimsy with a Balcony Cabin (Per person, twin share. Airfares additional) million-dollar view; a place to explore, challenge and grow. It’s INCLUSIONS safe, secure and free. And it’s 2QHQLJKW6WRFNKROPZLWKEUHDNIDVW popular. By mid-morning, the QLJKWFUXLVH6WRFNKROPWR&RSHQKDJHQ walkways are gridlocked with These 2QHQLJKW&RSHQKDJHQZLWKEUHDNIDVW prams. Young mums with babes turning $OODLUSRUWKRWHOFUXLVHWUDQVIHUV swap stories. It’s nearly time to things BONUS OFFERS move on. “Again, Grandpa?” are fun. &UXLVHKRVWIURP$OSKD7UDYHO 2QERDUGFRFNWDLOSDUW\ &RPSOLPHQWDU\DQGH[FOXVLYHWRXULQ7DOOLQQ Choice of:IUHHVKRUHH[FXUVLRQVOR )UHHFODVVLFEHYHUDJHSDFNDJHOR 86SHUSHUVRQRQERDUGFUHGLW Alpha 0156 CLAREMONT APPLECROSS 9286 7100 9316 3333 *Conditions apply. Prices correct as at 11th January and can be withdrawn at any time ASTOR S U M M E R

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Rottnest is pretty as a picture from the sky. Heli wine tours a heavenly pleasure Clayton says. Other popular Forget the minibus, do this, lunch and tasting destinations says GEOFFREY THOMAS that have helicopter pads include Amelia Park, Leeuwin s this the ultimate Estate, Xanadu Wines, indulgence? Chauffeur Watershed Premium Wines, pick-up, champagne on Voyager Estate, Brookland arrival at Jandakot, Valley, Sandalford Wines, helicopter ride to Margaret Cheeky Monkey Brewery and IRiver for wine-tasting and Cidery and Colonial Brewing lunch followed by a sightseeing Company. spin over Rottnest Island and After arriving back at the city of Perth. Jandakot, there’s a chauffeur to “We will give you a Hollywood take guests home. day,” says Luke Wyllie, owner of The price, based on six Jandakot-based Corsaire people, is $1495 per person for Aviation, which is focusing on Visiting wineries down south is a great highlight. the full day, from 10am to 5pm, the premium tourist market. not including the chauffeur Corsaire operates a golf-and-lunching, heli-fishing, and towns. “We often see transfers. specialised fleet of helicopters free-diving and ecotours to whales and dolphins on the Another option is to fly to and aircraft from its destinations such as the trip,” he says. Leeuwin Estate for lunch in a purpose-built Jandakot Abrolhos Islands, Dirk Hartog At the first winery visit, twin-turboprop aircraft, with headquarters and offers Island, the Coral Coast and the typically Vasse Felix, guests are wine-tasting, a self-guided tour charters throughout WA and Kimberley. greeted by staff for a private of the art gallery and a further afield. The Margaret River wine tour and tasting. three-course lunch. The cost is The helicopter fleet experience starts with a After a flight over wineries $495 each, based on eight comprises four machines, chauffeur transfer to Jandakot, and vineyards, there’s lunch at passengers. including high-performance where a champagne breakfast Aravina Estate. On arrival, staff The Heli Golf tour is a short Eurocopter EC1304 and EC120 awaits in the corporate lounge. will show guests around the flight from Jandakot to Araluen aircraft equipped for offshore After a safety briefing and property, including the private Golf Resort, nine holes and a flying. discussion about what guests vintage car collection, before a helicopter ride over the hills to In fixed-wing planes, Corsaire are going to see, it’s off to the three-course lunch Millbrook Winery for lunch. has the highest-specification first winery for wine-tasting in accompanied by wines. It costs from $995 per person. Cessna 441 Conquest II in WA the EC130B4. After lunch, the tour flies on ...... and a Cessna 210R Centurion. According to Wyllie, this is no to a third location of the guests’ ᔡ See corsaireaviation.com.au or And it has pilots with extensive ordinary helicopter — it’s the choice for afternoon drinks phone 9417 1325. experience in mining and top end with “leather seating, before a low-level scenic flight survey work, aerial air-conditioning and Bose back up the coast — for See more of the Corsaire photography, tourism and noise-cancelling headsets”. example calling at Rottnest experience both in the air corporate charters. Corsaire chief pilot Trent Island. and on the ground in our The tourism packages from Clayton says the aviators fly at “We give clients the choice of Travel Club Show video at Perth include Margaret River an altitude of about 400m, three locations and let them sevenwesttravelclub.com.au. winery tours, helicopter giving good views of the coast tailor the experience,” Mr sevenwesttravelclub.com.au January 14- 15,2017 Stories Off ers Tours Events Competitions 25

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