Australia's Walhalla Trail

"The Australian Alps form part of the Great Dividing Range, from Cape York in the north to Victoria, and we climbed three summits. The appeal for a European is not just that so many of the species -- such as the platypus and the sugar glider, a species of possum -- are entirely alien; it is that they are there at all. At 5,000ft in Britain you will be lucky to get more than a few hardy lichens, but here exquisite flowers thrive." Mark Rowe hikes the Great Walhalla Alpine Trail, endpoint for the 422-mile Australian Alps Walking Track. In the Belfast Telegraph.

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