Australia With Julia Bradbury

Julia has a go at paddle boarding with pooches before meeting Australia’s favourite koala. She joins fashion designer Jenny Kee, before taking a ride on the world’s steepest railway. Her hike through the Blue Mountains ends with a sighting of the plastic-loving bowerbird.

Julia meets backpackers in Cairns and heads out to an island turtle sanctuary. She treks through the oldest rainforest in the world and gets a taste for green ants. The caretakers of an idyllic island introduce her to the magic of the Great Barrier Reef.

Julia explores the coastal city of Perth. She enjoys a day at the races in Broome and explores life in the outback.

Julia embarks on a crocodile safari in the wetlands of the Northern Territory, before chilling out in Darwin, home of the Ghan train.

Julia continues her 12,000km journey across the continent in Central Australia, a huge outback region of the Northern Territory also known as the Red Centre. She begins in the town of Alice Springs, where she is persuaded to take part in a dry boat race. She also heads back to the classroom at the world's largest school, meets a retired Aussie soap star at his desert home and takes a camel ride to the sacred site of Uluru, or Ayers Rock.

Julia reaches South Australia as she continues her 12,000km journey across the continent. She drives along the Explorers Way, a route through the Outback mapped out by a pioneer in 1862, to the world's most isolated pub, where a small plane takes her on to the ancient landscape of the Painted Hills. In Adelaide, she climbs the roof of the Oval sports stadium and meets a women's cycling team, before ending her journey in wine country.