- 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.
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
Before you go
Entry rules, safety and health for Australia: the UK government's FCDO travel advice for Australia (the definitive source), summarised with visas, currency and plugs on our Australia guide.
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 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) · source
- Ningaloo Reef — W. Bulach / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Margaret River — BigMacka / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Rottnest Island (Wadjemup) — RaucusG / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Monkey Mia — W. Bulach / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Fremantle — Fred Oostryck (Wiki Takes Fremantle participant) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) · source
- Swan Valley — Robert Young from Gdansk, Poland / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) · source
- Albany & Denmark — Gypsy Denise / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · source
- Broome — Korkut Tas / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · source