Top 10 alternative travel destinations for 2015

As the year hastily draws to a close it’s time to start brainstorming your next overseas trip for 2015. So many of us return to the same place year after year, but why not escape travel ground-hog day and explore somewhere new? There’s an entire planet out there. No, really, there’s 7 continents, 196 countries and thousands of cities to discover. And trust me, each and every one of them is more interesting than going coastal for the fourth consecutive year.  But where in the world should you go?

We’ve compiled a list of some of the best places for young Aussies to visit in 2015 based on socio-cultural trends, survey results from Skyscanner and Lonely Planet as well as global festivals and infrastructure improvements. Oh, and we’ve thrown in a couple of random cities because they’re just so damn cool!

—Stefanie Acworth runs A Modern Wayfarer.