Anabel Dean
Travel writer
Anabel Dean is a Sydney-based freelance travel journalist, with an expertise in arts writing, who began writing as a news reporter in London before joining The Sydney Morning Herald, and later The Bulletin, in a career that spans decades.
This stirring Top End festival is among the world’s greatest
The Garma Festival is an invitation to the clans to join in the diplomacy of kinship. It’s also a rare chance to engage with the world’s oldest living culture.
- by Anabel Dean
‘Nothing prepared me’: These rare, ‘wretched beauties’ will break your heart
Animals Asia grants limited access to visitors who want to help bring a species back from the brink of extinction while ending bear bile farming in Vietnam.
- by Anabel Dean
Can an unknown Hoi An tailor create a fashion fantasy in seven hours?
Every generation in human history has had its own paragon of female beauty and Pamela Van has less than seven hours to realise mine.
- by Anabel Dean
★★★★½
Hotel reviews
This hotel is a city within a city, a world of its own
This German hotel offers a magnificent balance of modernity and history.
- by Anabel Dean
The world’s largest car-free urban area is a maze
I’m told to forget maps, guidebooks and your phone: if you’re not born here, you’re going to get lost.
- by Anabel Dean
‘World’s End’: The remote part of Australia the British failed to colonise
Why would anyone travel to the shark and croc infested waterways of the Cobourg Peninsula? There are plenty of reasons...
- by Anabel Dean
A spine-tingling trip back in time in the home of the world’s biggest shark
The UNESCO World Heritage Ningaloo Coast is a living cultural landscape for traditional owners with ancient treasures to boot.
- by Anabel Dean
How to look ‘steezy’ in the snow capital of cool
Whistler-Blackcomb in Canada is the home of cool and consistently ranked as one of the world’s best ski resorts.
- by Anabel Dean
This opulent outpost for the wealthy is an almost forgotten world
The glitterati have been coming to Switzerland’s Engadin Valley for generations to drink brandy, play polo, swoosh down mountains and mingle with celebrities.
- by Anabel Dean
★★★★
Airline reviews
Airline review: Qantas domestic business class on a new dream route
This flight will make World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef more accessible for those with it on their bucket list.
- by Anabel Dean