No trip to the West would be complete without a visit to the stunning 168, 000-hectare World Heritage area of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair.

BBC: Tasmania's wild wild west

It was one of Australia most heavily glaciated areas, and includes Mt Ossa (1, 617m) - Tasmania's highest peak - and Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest natural freshwater lake (167m).

BBC: Tasmania's wild wild west

There are fabulous day walks at both Cradle Valley in the north and Cynthia Bay (Lake St Clair) in the south, but it is the outstanding 80.5km Overland Track between the two that has turned this park into a bushwalkers' Mecca.

BBC: Tasmania's wild wild west