Even if you can only manage a two week holiday, Australia is still well worth considering. You can plan a trip that blends beaches with the outback, rainforests with Aboriginal culture, and vineyards with cosmopolitan cities without having to spend half your time travelling. 
Recommended tour operator: Bridge & Wickers
Bridge & Wickers says
We specialise in tailor-made itineraries that show the best of Australia according to your particular interests. If you’ve only got two weeks we would recommend focusing on a particular area, confident that once you’ve seen just what this amazing country has to offer you’re bound to want to return, to discover other regions and see Australia in a different light.
Families travelling during the Christmas two week school break, for example, could spend a rewarding time just in and around Sydney, combining the city with time in the spectacular Blue Mountains, the vineyards of the Hunter Valley and the amazing white sand beaches of Jervis Bay – none more than a few hours’ drive from each other.
An ideal two weeker for a couple would be to combine visits to Adelaide and Melbourne with a fabulously scenic drive between the two, following the Great Ocean Road, with a final trip across to Kangaroo Island, whose wildlife and other natural treasures make it the Galapagos of Down Under.
If icons are your thing, you could comfortably see Australia’s ‘big three’, the Rock, the Reef and the Sydney Opera House, in an easily combined golden triangle of an itinerary, staying in some of the finest accommodation in the Southern Hemisphere.
For a perfect fortnight in July or August you could experience Australia the movie, enjoying the Kimberley outback in the ‘Top End’, staying at working cattle stations (but in great comfort), followed perhaps with lovely, lazy days on one of the luxury island resorts of the Great Barrier reef, both at their weather best in our summer.
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