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.

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 ...

See all stories. 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.

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 ...