CREATIVE HOLIDAYS ON THE GOLD COAST
BY RAMA GAIND
THE Gold Coast is one of the fastest growing communities in Australia – with more than 500,000 residents – and it’s easy to see why.
Its strong, deep-rooted economy is equipped to support a booming tourist industry.
When it comes to enjoying yourself here, your imagination will be the only limit. Here is a place not only of diversity, but contrast where entertainment meets relaxation and nature happily agrees with sophistication.
With more than 70km of pristine beaches and waterways surrounding a city teaming with culture, fashion, food and fun, the Gold Coast is just minutes from lush rolling hills of hinterland mountains capped with tranquil rainforests and bushland of world heritage stature. There’s a diverse choice of natural and man-made wonders from spectacular cliffs, gorges and waterfalls into the 100,000 hectares of national parks and reserves
In contrast, the Gold Coast’s manmade attractions and experiences will get the blood
racing with excitement. For the young or simply the young at heart the Gold Coast
hosts Australia’s largest theme parks where you can swim with dolphins, stroll with a
Bengal tiger and defy the laws of gravity on the longest, the highest and the most
exciting thrill rides in the country.
If being active is not on your agenda, then be pampered with a massage: just the therapy you need to unwind and relax.
That’s exactly what I did. Alison Shaw from Ripple Massage worked wonders on my stressed, tired frame … afterwards I felt like a new woman!
Ripple is a mobile massage business that comes to you on the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Tamborine regions of Queensland.
Like a drop splashing in the water, a great massage or beautiful body spirit products send a lovely ripple through your day.
A wide range of styles, together with the little extras, do turn a good massage into a sensational one.
There are a variety of Ripple body spirit massages: bliss, scent, thrive, Shiatsu, sole, hot stone, Russian, cupping and the Ten for Ten where you get a seated chair massage in your workplace. Now, that’s a great idea.
Gold Coast Tourism is adept at what it does and has taken the best of international culinary styles and served them up in an easily accessible smorgasbord of dining options. Walk down any main street to find Indian, Italian, Italian, French, Thai and Japanese or Australia’s world-famous distinctive cuisine which fuses European influences and Asian infusions capitalising on a rich bounty of raw produce.
Then by night, romantics can watch the sun set on the beach over cocktails before
catching a spectacular stage show and thrills and dancing at Jupiters Casino.
The Gold Coast is ‘very active, very natural, very exciting, very indulgent’ – so start planning your creative holiday up there now.
