Perth, Australia Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Although its lack of urban grime creates a favourable first impression, it's hard to get too excited about PERTH . Western Australia's modern capital of 1.5 million people has a reputation for sunshine, youthfulness and an easy-going lifestyle – after work, people often go sailing or swimming. It is perhaps because of this complacency that Perth lacks the substance and charisma, and the tension, of diverse wealth and ethnicity, that make a really great city something more than just a group of modern skyscrapers and people enjoying the good life. In the 1980s mineral prosperity and a spate of … more »