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Exploring Oz

Getting around Australia, from the usual plane flights and rental cars to epic train journeys, backpacker buses, and doing is the Aussie way: in a camper.

Let's get one thing clear from the outset: Australia is a continent. Not just a country; a continent. It is huge. It is vast. It is (brace yourselves) larger than the US of A.

In other words, you're not going to be able to tool around in a rental car for two weeks and see it all. (I say that because a surprising number of visitors are somehow under the impression that they can.)

Heck, you'd be hard-pressed simply to drive, without stopping for the sights, in a week the TK miles of the famed Stuart Highway through the Outback from Adelaide on the south coast to Darwin on the north. That's why you have to pick carefully the method of travel that's going to best fit the type (and scope) of Australian vacation you have in mind.

Here are all the details on the main ways to get around this vast country-continent:



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This article was last updated in July 2006 All information was accurate at the time.



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