If you love Japan’s blazing tide of fall foliage, meet your new seasonal crush: the autumnal turning of Tasmania’s Nothofagus gunnii (aka fagus). Also called the Tanglefoot Beech, the fagus is Australia’s only cold-climate, winter-deciduous tree, and during April/May it turns on a molten spectacle of gold, amber, and rusty red.

Tasmania’s glorious national parks, especially the remote highlands, offer the best vantage point or immerse yourself online here