Tourist attractions in Australia: What foreigners' favourites are

By Sue Williams
Updated January 25 2015 - 1:09am, first published 12:15am
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour.
 Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour.
 Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour.
 Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour.
 Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Wet and wild: The annual Australia Day Ocean Swim in which professional and amateur swimmers alike compete in a race around the harbour. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
Beach huts come in all manner of styles.
Beach huts come in all manner of styles.
The panel: (clockwise from top left) Rick Stein, Arj Barker, Graham Boynton, Sonia Ruyter, Nicholas Shakespeare, Harsha Bogle.
The panel: (clockwise from top left) Rick Stein, Arj Barker, Graham Boynton, Sonia Ruyter, Nicholas Shakespeare, Harsha Bogle.
Everyone should visit Uluru. Photo:  Quentin Jones
Everyone should visit Uluru. Photo: Quentin Jones
A must-visit: Wineglass Bay, Freycinet Peninsula,Tasmania.
A must-visit: Wineglass Bay, Freycinet Peninsula,Tasmania.
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty
What would Australia be without surfers? Photo: Andrew Quilty

They come for our sun, beaches, laidback cities, alluring landscapes and oddball animals. But our visitors from overseas often leave with memories quite different to the ones they imagined they'd capture. So Traveller, to mark the Australia Day weekend, decided to ask six people who would be most in the know about Australia for their frank opinions on what we do best. Here is the panel and their answers.

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