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With New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria already open to vaccinated travelers, it's time to start planning that next trip down under.

If you'd told me a year ago I'd be participating in a silent meditation retreat, I'd have scoffed with derision.

A gossamer rain is falling as I walk through a temperate rainforest, its gentle percussion on my jacket accompanying the crack of whip birds and the tamborine rustle of leaves. I have been invited to stroll mindfully on this trail, observing the details of the forest; the mosaic of green in the dappled light, the coarse bark of a coachwood tree where cicada exoskeletons cling; a tangle of vines, looped like dropped stitches in Mother Nature's giant scarf. This awakening of the senses is part of a guided Nature Therapy Walk at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in Mount Tomah, exploring what th...