Tourists on holidays travel to discover TasmaniaAdded on 10/12/2005 to Articles Directory / Travel / Tour operators / Holiday tour operators
The lush wilderness that covers most of the island makes you feel like you are the first to discover its secrets. Maybe you are. Trekking up into the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park you are aware that you are walking in one of the few areas of the English-speaking world where man has barely intruded. To walk through the rainforests of Mount Field national park, dwarfed by 150ft trees, home to scores of wild, albeit extremely visible, wallabies is to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs. You feel small but also incredulous that such a remote, primeval place could have encouraged an exodus on the other side of the world.
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