Gold Coast is Australia's top tourist destination. It has been established as Australia's favorite holiday playground for families and teenagers since 1950s. It has now become the world's popular beachside town with great hotels and diversity of tourist attractions. The 70 km coastline to South Pacific Ocean which stretches from South Stradbroke Island to Cabarite beach in New South Wales offers beautiful, long, white sandy beaches with a touch of ocean salt-air. The year-round warm weather and sunshine welcome locals and tourists for various kinds of outdoor activities, from simply relaxing walking in on the beach, exercising in a golf course or take advantage of this one of the world's best surfing spots, or stimulate your adrenalin by taking a bungee jump or those thrilling rides. Calm yourself bush-walking in the Hinterland, the Australia's most biologically diverse subtropical rainforests. Hear the sound of bird calls, visiting waterfalls and finish the day with fine shopping and wonderful dining in one of the city's alfescos.