Photos from the Real AUSTRALIA

New South Wales

The "Premier State", New South Wales is where European colonisation of Australia began when in 1788 a settlement was started where the country's largest city, Sydney, would develop. And Australia's Capital city, Canberra, would be built between Sydney and Melbourne, in the Australian Capital Territory. This is the most urbanised part of the country.

And yet, just on the outskirts of Sydney are the magnificent Blue Mountains, with endless possibilities for hiking and enjoying the mountain air; there are fantastic beaches and wonderful views everywhere and even opportunities for skiing in the Australian Alps. And there are peaceful villages like Numeralla, in beautiful forest country.

Further west the real outback starts, with vast plains, farms and, in the far west near the South Australian border, the mining town of Broken Hill, where mining started in the 1880s. Now home to the School of the Air and a Royal Flying Doctor base, servicing the far-flung farms. This is a flat and dry land, quite a contrast with the hilly, well watered country in the east.

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