WITH its thriving food scene and wineries, the Adelaide Hills make a perfect gourmet escape – and it's under an hour's drive from South Australia's capital.

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UNDER disco lights, the annual courtship of the giant cuttlefish draws the snorkelling crowds to the waters of Whyalla.

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GOURMET meals prepared by your own chef and sunset cocktails – lap up the River Murray in style on a floating hotel.

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AN award-winning winery just outside Adelaide at Chain of Ponds prives the perfect winter refuge for Brad Crouch.

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SOARING peaks, plunging ravines, pristine bushland – Alligator Gorge sure is a place of enchantment, writes David Nankervis.

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EXPERIENCE the liberation and the exhilaration of the open road as we give you the state's ultimate road adventures.

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SOUTH Australia is failing in its attempts to excite Australian tourists, with a survey showing it is the nation's least popular state for domestic visitors.

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GERMAN by name, German-Australian by nature, Hahndorf is not any run-of-the-mill village in the Adelaide Hills, writes Mike Smith.

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WINE enthusiasts from around the world have voted with their palates, naming the Barossa Valley in the world's top five wine destinations.

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DISCOVER Aboriginal history and wildlife on a guided gorge tour in South Australia's rugged Flinders Ranges, writes Chris Pritchard.

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