Photographing captivating Cambodia
See Cambodia as you never have before, through the eyes of a master photographer. Nick Melidonis will share expert tips on seeing and capturing the spectacular temples, lakes and people of this captivating country, and take you on a tour of breathtaking photography. Nick shares tips on seeing and photographing Cambodia and Angkor Wat, the largest religious complex in the world. In the plains and jungles surrounding Angkor there are dozens of ancient temples and structures built to p...
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Photographing exotic Borneo
Come on a stunning visual journey with a master photographer. Discover the tips for travel photography that the expert knows and the enthusiast can learn. See Borneo’s peoples, cultures, traditions and dramatic landscape, from the world’s oldest rainforest to the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Following this talk there will be a brief presentation on the photography tour ‘Ultimate Borneo’ conducted by Nick Melidonis and triple AIPP Australian Nature Photographer of the Year, Da...
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Gardens of Spain
Commencing in April 2012, this tour led by Sabrina Hahn, horticulturalist, garden designer and expert gardening commentator on ABC 720 Perth, is a feast of splendid private gardens and great monuments in Spain. It explores the unique gardening tradition of Iberia, from the Romans to the present day. It considers a number of key factors that distinguish Spain from the rest of Europe. Spain is topographically the second highest country in Europe and boasts an extraordinary ecological ...
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Greek Island Odyssey information evening
In May 2012, master photographer Nick Melidonis and SBS journalist Costas Demetriades will be leading a 19-day tour of the idyllic Greek Islands. Come along to this free presentation and be inspired by the sights, sounds and culture of this beautiful part of the world and maybe plan your next exotic getaway. To see the sites you’ll see on the tour, see this beautiful video of Nick images – all taken from sites along the tour. For more information on the tour see Nick’s website.
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Natural landscapes and gardens of South Africa
Commencing in September 2011, this exciting new tour to South Africa, led by Sabrina Hahn, explores one of the most plant-rich zones in the world, also home to one of the world’s six floral kingdoms. Meticulously designed with the enthusiastic assistance of key South African landscape designers, particularly Franchesca Watson Bräsler in Cape Town, we visit a number of important private gardens in and around Cape Town, Durban and Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg. Use this free infor...
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Taste Crete - the home of the mediterranean diet
At this free information session, you will be inspired to join us on a fabulous tour of Crete in October 2012 when we visit famous archaeological sites and traditional villages and taste the wonderful food of the island. The tour will visit olive groves that produce some of the finest oils in the world and, en route to Crete, stopover at Kithira, one of the most beautiful Greek islands, the birthplace of Aphrodite and well known for its organic food production. Crete is famous for i...
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Travel Writing
This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. In this course you’ll learn how to develop the skills of a travel writer. You’ll learn how to translate what is seen, heard, tasted, touched, smelled and felt (intuitively and physically) into publishable articles and books. You’ll understand the writing styles and methods needed to sell material in today’s competitive market (including the how-to’s of technical aspects of lead paragraphs, descript...
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Travel Photography for the Digital Photographer
This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. The lure of travel is surpassed only by the inevitable desire to bring home pictures and share your adventures. Since the late 1800s when George Eastman produced the first traveling camera with the slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest,“ travel and photography have been eternally joined. With the added benefits of digital photography so readily available to consumers today, the field is ful...
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Get Paid to Travel
This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. If you love to travel and enjoy working with individuals, tour directing, tour guiding, and cruise hosting may be the career for you! As a professional tour director or tour guide, you’re hired by tour operators, destination management companies, and incentive houses to escort groups on local programs, domestic tours, international tours, and cruises. You may be on an African safari one week and cr...
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