Cuisine: Spectacular seafood

The oceans around Australia provide a plethora of high-quality seafood, ranging from saline cold-water oysters in the south to the sweet white meat of wild barramundi fished in the north. If you want to try your hand at catching your own supper, you may join a fishing tour, which ranges from big game charters in Australia's Top End to fly fishing in Tasmania. You may even learn how to prepare it yourself at Sydney Seafood Market's cooking school.

And, while there are lots of restaurants that specialize in seafood, it's not all posh-plated – there's an intrinsic pleasure in having a "bucket" of prawns in a surf club or unwrapping a warm paper package of fish and chips to share at a picnic table by the water. This is one of the most popular cuisines in Australia.