Sample Australia's best oysters, canoe rivers and lakes and spot kangaroos before arriving at Coffs Harbour.

If excellent food and wine are important criteria when choosing where to go for a break, look a little further afield to these exciting regions that are up and coming.

Take a road trip from Sydney to Canberra and experience fabulous food, stunning natural surrounds and world class galleries.

Road trips are about more than a destination. The best ones are filled with many quirky occurrences and mishaps along the way. We hope you enjoy reading these tales and that they inspire you to hit the road and create more great road trip tales of your own.

Experience the spectacular wilderness and wildlife at Australia’s most impressive National Parks between Sydney and Blackheath.

In 2010, Michelle embarked on a road trip from Sydney to Adelaide in seven days, with two British backpackers in tow, to show them the real Australia. Follow her story. 

Route: Forster | Coolongolook | Topi Topi | Buladelah | Newcastle | Cooranbong | Somersby | Parramatta

Take in the scenery as you meander through amazing valleys, fertile river plains and incredible mountain peaks on this 3-day trip from the lush pastoral area of Canberra through to the ghost-white gums of Cooma.

Plan your next road trip from the red desert plains of Broken Hill to a foodie's dream in Mildura. 

It’s long way to the top, especially when you start from Cairns and end up in Cape York – but it’s a blockbuster of a road trip through a wild and remote landscape.