This is the Tasmania chapter from Lonely Planet’s Australia guidebook.

Tasmania is brilliant, beautiful and accessible. Look forward to exquisite beaches, jagged mountain ranges, rarefied alpine plateaus, plentiful wildlife and vast tracts of virgin wilderness, much of it within a World Heritage area.

• Meandering lazily through the labyrinth of stalls at Hobart’s Saturday morning Salamanca Market
• maps
• Negotiating the Overland, the archetypal Tasmanian bushwalk and an essential Aussie rite of passage
• transport
• restaurants & accommodation
• Contemplating the contrast of melancholy silence and beautiful scenery at Port Arthur

Coverage includes: Hobart, Around Hobart, The Southeast, Tasman Peninsula, The Midlands, The East Coast, The Northeast, Launceston, Around Launceston, Tamar Valley, The North, The Northwest, The West and The Southwest.