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Travel Journals: Townsville, Australia


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Australia

Since I've fallen just a little bit behind with my blogging i thought the best thing to do might be to combine my oz experiences to date into just one mammoth journal - easier for me anyway, maybe not you the reader!! A lot seems to have happened in...

Member: Emma
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Australia/Malaysia 2000

Friday 4 August 2000 Back on the road again. New bus driver - Young Joe Young. This fella was off his rocker! The "put your seatbelts on" signal consisted of 2 rings of a bicycle bell followed quickly by "SHIT! PUT YOUR SEATBELTS ON!!...

Member: Louise
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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...

Member: Paul
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Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

Member: Sarah and Ricky
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Australia

We headed to Caloundra to meet up with Haydn. After several attempts at trying to meet up with him we finally found him in the local phonebook! He couldn't escape that easily. We spent 2 lovely days with him, Michelle and his family. We went jet sk...

Member: Claire and Paul
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Queensland 2002

Queensland is Australia's sunshine state - which seems odd when the entire country is almost constantly bathed in warm sunshine anyway, but there you go. Blessed with a long coastline, QL stretches from the backpacker resorts near Byron Bay on the bord...

Member: Richard
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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...

Member: Justin
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Trip of a lifetime!

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

Member: Kirsty
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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...

Member: Scott and Jenni
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Australia

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

Member: Tanya
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Round the world trips 2004

After being taken to heathrow we flwe straight out to bangkok where we stayed in the 5star Marriott Hotel on the banks of the river, it was beautiful. After meeting vic's dad we did tours of the markets at chatuchak and sala daeng. The bargains were am...

Member: Jon
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My Gap Year 2001

Travelling with Sarah a lovely trusted KES girl, we set off on our first location - Singapore the hottest place ever! From here we spent 6 months experiencing the delights of backpacking in Australia. On the west coast remember the lovely Brendan and t...

Member: liz
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London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

Member: Eric
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Round the World Trip 2006/07

After all these years of 'one day planning to go in the future'....I made it across the world to the world down under. We are spending 3 months in this lovely country and had to apply for a 3 month holiday visa to be able to do so. Personally, I fo...

Member: Alanna
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East coast, Australia!!!

Campervan life is awesome!! The deck chairs come out often we even sat at the side of the road eating lunch today seems to provide entertainment for passers by!! Have spent a couple of days chilling out at the town of 1770 (where captain cook first lan...

Member: sheryl
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Australia Pictures

Enjoy!...

Member: claire
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~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...

Member: Emma
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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...

Member: Kate and Jonny
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Australia!

we've left Noosa! yay! it rained the whole time we were there and the worse thing was - there were no good shops for us to go in!! if me and aimée are bored then we go shopping but we couldn't even do that! Anyway. We found out some good news on t...

Member: Aimee and Serena
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AUSTRALIA

I loved my time in Australia. It is a country with heaps of natural beauty and, more impressive to me, some of the most interesting animals on earth. I found Australian culture to be a mix of British and American culture with a unique dialect and vocab...

Member: Brent
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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,...

Member: Natalie-Susan
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East Coast Australia

We haven't told you much about our "wicked" camper yet. When we picked up the van, we were able to get a free upgrade.... yey, we have air conditioning and power steering! Furthermore, we were relieved to discover that our van was nothing t...

Member: Doris and Mike
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New Zealand & Australia '06-'07

South Island consisted of Sailing adventures in Abel Tasman, Pancake rocks, dancing on bars, Hiking up a glacier in the middle of a rainforest, Karaoke in the middle of nowhere, BUNGEE in Queenstown, Cruising Milford Sound, Stewart Island (next stop An...

Member: Terri
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QUEENSLAND

Cheeseland (Queensland) as little Emily Rego calls it - was our favourite state! Apart from drunken of course. As we entered the sunshine state the heavens opened, closing many roads. Hence we had to stay in Hicksville (otherwise known as Richmond) whe...

Member: daveandmonaregone
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Australia - SouthEast Asia 2006

La capital Vietnamita nos recibio con los primeros 26 del viaje, casi senti que tenia frio. Nuevamente, taxi, 100cc, 2 ruedas, 2 personas y mi gran mochila. Recorrimos, diferentes hoteles, nada que valiera los 10 dolares por 2 personas que suelen c...

Member: Francisco
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