A Visitors Guide To Australia's Major Tourist Cities Towns And Places Of Interest. Australia, the world's only island continent, is a very big, very beautiful place. If you're looking for a beach vacation Australian beaches are the best in the world, soft and clean, so clean in fact that they "squeak" when you walk on them and if you're not a beach person there's plenty more adventure to be had in this wonderful country. From beautiful ancient landscapes, as old as time itself, to the most modern of cities, there really is nothing like a holiday in Australia.