Western Australia Sightseeing

Water-themed rides, roller coasters, a race track and various other attractions combine to make Adventure World, 20 minutes by road south of Perth city, and 15 minutes from Fremantle, a favorite fun park for the young and the young at heart.

It's not the nearest place to go but with regular two-and-half-hour flights from Perth, the coastal pearling town of Broome is hardly inaccessible now and has become a year-round holiday drawcard.

The Kimberley's Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) national park is distinguished by its rounded rock towers striped horizontally in alternating orange and black.

Cable Beach is one of Western Australia's most popular beaches and has become, with its tropical climate, a year-round drawcard for visitors.

Go trysting with the friendly bottlenose dolphins off the west coast of Western Australia.

A look at Australia's largest state and its innumerable and unique attractions.

Fremantle activities and attractions include visits to its museums which are a treasure-trove of arts, artefacts and Australian martime history.

The Perth seaport, Fremantle, lies at the mouth of the Swan River 19 kilometres southwest of the capital of Western Australia.

Built by convicts in the 1850s, and closed as a place of incarceration in 1991, Fremantle Prison is one of Western Australia's premier heritage sites and since 1992 has been open to the public with daytime and torchlight tours.

One of Australia's largest national parks, Karijini (formerly Hamersley Range) national park is one of the most spectacular in Australia and a definite drawcard for Nature and adventure lovers. It is an area of desert and rugged land centred on the Hamersley Range in Outback Western Australia.

Picnic areas, walking tracks, cycleways, hectares of natural bushland and magnificent views of Perth and the Swan River from Mt Eliza combine to make Kings Park and Botanic Garden an attractive place of leisure in natural surroundingss.

Mt Augustus in Western Australia is the world's biggest rock, about two and a half times the size of Uluru in the Northern Territory.

Swim with the biggest sharks at Ningaloo Reef.

Map of the city centre fronting the Swan River.

Regional map showing areas around Perth including the port of Fremantle.

Start your Perth walking tour from the Swan River and take a day to see the major sights in the Western Australia capital.

From your About.com Guide, tour the Perth city centre, enjoy the Perth lifestyle.

From Perth to Rottnest Island, then up the coast and into the Kimberley.

Holiday and quokka haven close to Perth and Fremantle. Beaches, corals, historic sites, and a colony of what Dutch explorers thought were giant rats. Swim, surf, dive, fish, bike, bus, fly.

Much of the holiday activity at Rottnest Island is water-related: swimming, surfing, diving, fishing.

It's easy to explore Rottnest Island on foot, by bus or bicycle or from the air on a scenic flight.

Finding accommodation on Rottnest Island, Western Australia, and other relevant visitor information.

Shark Bay on the western coast of Western Australia, is a World Heritage site and home to dugongs, dolphins and stromatolites: a fascinating aquatic world and a diver's paradise.