Australia

After Cervantes, we cruised on down through Perth (which will be our final Australian destination) to the funky and very pretty port city of Fremantle where we left Drew and Alistair for a few days while we continued further south. We plan to stay in F...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

Weltreise 2006

In Darwin checken wir in Chillis Backpacker Hostel ein. Unser Plan, die Westkueste entlang zu reisen, platzt innerhalb einer Minute, da zwischen Darwin und Broome alle Strassen ueberschwemmt sind und es auch zwischen Broome und Perth sieben Zyklone gab...

 

World Backpacking Trip (Part 2) - New Zealand, Australia, Asia & Europe 2006 / 2007

Wednesday 11th April I Woke at 5am as train rattled into Hanoi. I met Aaron and Natalie at the front of the station and we took a taxi back to the same hotel, where we had breakfast because nowhere else was open before 8am. Then I took a ta...

 

Up thru Central Aus

Up in the dark at 5:30, a quick breakfast of toast and jam, load up the bus and trailer for the 3hour drive to Mt Ebenezer, a roadhouse and campground, where we’d swap drivers. Mulgas was down one guide/driver so Glen was doing a back to back trip. To ...

 

Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...

 

Australia (and a bit of Asia and Indonesia too) Summer 2006

After being met at the airport by someone from our hostel, we checked in, admired the room and then went into town for a wander around. It was notably warmer in Alice than in Sydney, however, town it would seem is more like a village. After an hour we ...

 

Australasia and South East Asia... a continuation on a toilet theme

Homogenity very much defines shopping in Thailand, and the floating market outside Bangkok was no exception. Repetitive photo album designs, countless fake Rolex's and wood-rounded candlestick holders abound, I must've seen them all in at least 50 di...

 

World trip

After another early start we arrived at Airlie Beach for our sailing adventure on the Whitsunday Magic. This 135ft tall ship was to take us around the Whitsunday Islands for the next 3 days. The first night we anchored at Whitehaven Bay after sunset,...

 

Need a ride.com

In OZ there is a website called needaride.com, where you and advertise or search for lifts around OZ. I had found a couple who was driving from Aryes Rock to Cairns the same time I had planed my journey. This couples music taste was very depressing,...

 

Grant's travels 2006 - 2007

Return to the Melbourne...

 

THE ALLURE OF TRAVEL

Looks like I am going to be a milk maid and work on a dairy farm! I am now in Mooroopna 3hrs from Melbourne, staying in this community backpackers (really nice bunch of people!) I will be leaving here and heading 50mins too Murray Valley where I ...

 

Australia

Sun 25 Feb 07 (Writing on the 1st March) FROM KAKADU TO KATHERINE I was really excited about arriving in Katherine. From what we had heard and read it sounded a lovely little town. Having stayed three days I don't know how anyone could live here! ...

 

The Centre

What's the secret to a great chili? Apparently it's using Australian chili powder. While preparing dinner last night, Mike added his usual amount of chili powder to the pot without first doing a taste test. The result? Hot hot hot chili. The chili...

 

Asia/Australia 2006 Summer

After a hectic week of packing, seeing friends and last minute shopping we were finally ready for the big off. Rob dropped us off in Birmingham for our coach to london, and left us to begin our trip. It was only after he left that we realised that ...

 

Summer 2000 - SE Asia & Australasia

Still having a brilliant time. In Cairns we went scuba diving and snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef which was fantastic. I also did white water rafting which was incredible, with grade 3 / 4 rapids (5 and 6 are too dangerous for man). We might do t...

 

Australia 2004

Started my journey in Sydney ...

 

Do you come from a land Down under?

Sept. 2005: The trip over here went well, although I almost missed my early birdy morning flight from Helsinki to Vienna, because of luggage check-in problems. Later I got in trouble with the airport police in Vienna, because the number in my Visa ...

 

Answering the question: Do dingoes really steal babies?

So I didn't miss my flight...but actually I almost did. The first leg of the journey was to fly from SeaTac into LAX. If you fly on frequent flyer miles, you are one step above livestock. They won't give you a confirmed seat, even though I booked th...

 

Not Another Bloody Rock!

Finally going on a plane again,on sunday morning (to Ayres Rock), but watched Wolf Creek the other day (backpackers that get murdered in the outback), plus I am driving with this couple to Cairns (I've never meet them before only spoke to them on the...

 

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Flies, flies and more flies!!! In fact if Australia only consisted of the Northern Territory - the kangaroo and the emu would be overthrown by the flies (as we were) as the nation's symbol. After two days driving through redness on speed limitless road...

 

Trip of a lifetime!

Well we arrived in Sydney after a tiresome 23 hours of travelling from Joburg, Africa, on the 6th March 2006....

 

~m~ & Jon in Australia

Amazingly, one week of our holiday is already over. It has gone very fast, and also seemed like much longer, in that strange way that holidays do. We've done so much, and it's all been fabulous. For the last 3 days we've been on a tour of the Red Ce...

 

Far East and Australia 2002

I think I last bored you from Cairns will that is about two weeks ago now. Since then I have travelled to Alice Springs by the luxury of plane. Bliss! Once in Alice (Mum must reread the book because its not what I remember – not quaint!) where its hot ...

 

Australia

01 April 2007 Sydney 10 April 2007 Sydney to Bangkok ...

 

My Big Trip

Our first true home in Oz, we lived in Brisbane for 3.5 months and enjoyed pretty much every minute of it. The weather was good for autumn. Small town but a fair bit to do!...

 

Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

 

Australia 2005

4 days in Perth chilling and getting to know the city...

 

2003 was good

March 8, 8:44 pm Ho Chi Minh City: Park View Hotel Saigon is by far the most congested and unorganized cities I have ever seen or heard about. It is unreal. There appears to be no traffic laws whatsoever; everyone simply drives wherever they please. ...