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A NEW mobile telephone app offers instant itineraries for caravanners
and campers.
Travel journalist and guide book author Lee Atkinson has published a
comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the best Australian road trips in an
iPhone and iPad application called Australian Road Trips.
"As well as following the detailed itineraries on the apps, users can
design their own individual road trips with the caravan and camping
filter," she told Caravanning News.
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Lee checks her app at the
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The guide includes 25 long-distance drive holiday routes around the
country, plus dozens of shorter weekend and day drives.
Users can also select themed itineraries to national parks, iconic coastal
routes, outback journeys, gourmet trails, spectacular mountain drives and
beautiful country roads.
Australian Road Trips also includes thousands of photos and more
than 265 entries.
Each road trip includes driving directions and distances from wherever you
start your trip, recommendations on what to see and do, where to eat and
accommodation options ... even where you can camp.
Routes include the three famous trans-continental journeys – across the
Nullarbor, Adelaide to Darwin and the Savannah Way from Cairns to Broome –
as well as signature journeys such as the Mereenie Loop Road from Alice
Springs to Uluru, Great Ocean Road and the Waterfall Way.
It also has plenty of short weekend getaways and day drives from capital
cities and favourite road trip routes such as Sydney-Brisbane and Sydney-
Melbourne.
"The great thing about the app is that you can use it to plan your own
unique trip according to your interests," Lee said.
"Using the sorting filters you can create a family-friendly road trip, a
gourmet road trip, arty, 4WD, outback, coastal ... whatever you want
really. Or it will just tell you the best foodie finds or great walking
trails near you, if that’s all you want to know."
The author of nine guide books about travelling in and around Australia,
Lee has been writing about her adventures on and off the road since 1991.
Her travel stories appear in the travel sections of various travel
magazine and newspapers, including the Sun Herald in Sydney.
She is a past president and Life Member of the Australian Society of
Travel Writers.
Australian Road Trips costs $4.49 including free updates and is
available for download from iTunes by
clicking here.
