It might be swapping office loafers for walking boots to tread ancient rainforest on the brand-new Ngaro Track on Whitsunday Island. It could be following your stomach around Seoul, tracking down the best salt bread bakeries. Or revisiting a party paradise that’s reinvented itself as an innovative, sustainability-focused resort.

Maybe it’s about experiences that are near-impossible to replicate elsewhere, like eating Yucatan-style seafood in LA, pillowy gnocchi in Rome, and oysters on Bruny Island – dishes the country’s top chefs would travel the world to eat once more. Or visiting the largest open-air safari experience outside Africa, and its recently opened Monarto Safari Lodge. 

Or it’s dialling down the pace entirely. These regional Australian escapes come into their own when the temperature drops; or check in to one of seven design-forward cabins, huts and tiny homes, where the only agenda is switching off. 

Need more inspiration? Find the next big overseas destinations, as chosen by our editors, and unhurried vineyards and gentle walks on New Zealand’s South Island.