Western Australia · Gateway hub
Perth and surrounds
Sunset city on the Indian Ocean, with Rottnest offshore, Fremantle downriver and Margaret River south.
- Fly intoPER — Perth
- Within reach9 iconic destinations
Perth and surrounds
Everything on this map is a day trip or a short hop from Perth — the way Tourism Australia itself organises the country, around a gateway city and the destinations it opens up.
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Day trips & destinations from here
The iconic destinations Tourism Australia groups under “Perth and surrounds”.
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Ningaloo Reef A World Heritage fringing reef you can snorkel straight off the beach — and swim with whale sharks Mar–Aug. -
Margaret River World-class Cabernet, big surf breaks and limestone caves, three hours south of Perth. -
Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) Car-free, 63 beaches and the quokka — a 30-minute ferry from Perth or Fremantle. -
Monkey Mia Wild bottlenose dolphins visiting the shallows most mornings, in World Heritage Shark Bay. - Esperance Lucky Bay, where the sand is blinding white and kangaroos sunbathe on the beach.
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Fremantle A heritage port city of craft breweries, markets and a convict World Heritage prison. - Coral Coast Perth to Exmouth — pink lakes, Shark Bay, the Pinnacles and Ningaloo at the end of it.
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Swan Valley Western Australia's oldest wine region, 25 minutes from central Perth. -
Albany & Denmark The Great Southern — tingle forests, a treetop walk and the Southern Ocean's whale coast.
Other gateways in Western Australia
Full guide for Perth is being written. The map and destination list above are live — see the Western Australia guide for the wider picture.
Photography
Images on this page are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA) and are photographs of the places named. Author, licence and source for each:
- Perth — Samuel Wiki · CC BY 4.0
- Ningaloo Reef — W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Margaret River — BigMacka · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) — RaucusG · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Monkey Mia — W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fremantle — Fred Oostryck (Wiki Takes Fremantle participant) · CC BY 3.0
- Swan Valley — Robert Young from Gdansk, Poland · CC BY 2.0
- Albany & Denmark — Gypsy Denise · CC BY-SA 4.0