{"id":646563,"date":"2026-05-03T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646563\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:24:09","slug":"top-five-solo-travel-destinations-for-australians-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646563\/","title":{"rendered":"Top five solo travel destinations for Australians | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akash is the Deputy Travel Editor for Australian Community Media. He has lived and worked in four cities around the world \u2013 Sydney, London, New Delhi and New York \u2013 and, at last count, travelled to 42 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My all-time favourite destination is &#8230; New York. You can drop a pin anywhere in Manhattan and start walking in any direction, and the sights and sounds of the city that never stops will begin to stimulate all your senses in an instant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next on my bucket list is \u2026 Scandinavia &#8211; at the peak of summer, when the sun almost never sets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My top travel tip is \u2026 If you\u2019re flying to Sydney from anywhere in the world, pick a window seat far from the wing on the left-hand-side of the aeroplane. If the weather gods and flight path align, you\u2019ll have the most incredible views of the Sydney Harbour and Opera House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akash is the Deputy Travel Editor for Australian Community Media. He has lived and worked in four cities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-646563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}