Most road-trippers in Australia focus on the country’s developed east coast, but drive a few hours from Perth, and you’ll have a wilder, less crowded experience.

As a concept, the Big Lap, that circumnavigation of Australia in which families pack up and head off to explore the Wide Brown Land, all 40,000 kilometres by road, sounds idyllic.

A single highway, the Gibb River Road, runs through its heart, and it makes for an "extraordinary" drive, said Matthew Parris in The Times – a 400-mile odyssey through "an epic landscape of red ...

Why This Road Trip Through Wild Western Australia Should Be on Your 2025 Travel List Most road-trippers in Australia focus on the country’s developed east coast, but drive a few hours from Perth ...