The Overland Track is Australia's premier multi-day alpine hike and probably the country's most popular. It's a 65km+ trek through Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, which sits in pristine Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. You traverse ancient landscapes: valleys formed from long lost glaciers; rainforests from the Pangaea period; peety buttongrass moors and towering eucalypt forests. There’s no phone reception, few manmade structures and little evidence of the life I’d come to escape.
Read MoreBryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
After leaving Zion National Park (see Southwest USA - Part One) in the morning, I drove for only a couple of hours before reaching Bryce Canyon in time to find a commercial campground, fitted out with shower - necessary after my two days of hiking. Unbeknownst to me, Bryce was actually higher in elevation than Zion, and as I was checking in a woman saw my glee at the (very few) snowflakes dropping and asked whether I was from California, on account of having never seen snow.
Read MoreZion National Park, Utah, USA
In April of 2017 I spent two weeks in a campervan working and travelling across the deserts of Utah and Arizona in the USA. I was inspired by my mum's memories of her roadtrip around the area in the late 1970s, and wanted to see - and explore - the landscape for myself. My first stop was Zion National Park, Utah, and it was beautiful and humbling and vast beyond expectation.
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