Hi!! We are in Adelaide at the moment- great city, really beautiful, totally under-rated!
We loved 'The rock Tour' did loads of hiking, watched sunrise and sunset over uluru, amazing! and camped out in 'swags' in the bush- great experience, apart from being woken up by howling dingos!scary! Simon also ate Kangaroo tail- looked horrible!
Our trip down from Alice to Adelaide was great. In a mini bus with a great group of people.Pretty much 2 days of straight driving, but we stopped at 'Coober Pedy' over night. Home of opal mining, has a landscape a little like mars....strange place, everyone knows everyone.....and everyone lives underground in dug out homes as the temperature reaches 50+ in the summer! we slept in an underground dorm! went on a mine tour and to an opal museum. Great experence!
Picking up our Camper van today, cant wait! not really planned too much, just that we drop it off in sydney in 3 weeks. We are going along the great ocean road, and are stopping at Melbourne along the way. Also want to get over to Tasmania while we have the van too- cheap to get over there at the moment as its winter, will be freezing over there but also meant to be gorgeous in the winter, and might be lucky enough to see migrating whales too!
Could've done with another day or two in adelaide, it really is lovely and our hostel is great, really friendly guy runs it, he took us up into the mountains yesterday, you get a great view of the whole of Adelaide from up there. We went to a wildlife life sanctuary too, cuddled a Koala, so cute!
Be in touch soon, over and out!XXX
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
OZ!!
hi all!! just arrived in alice springs, got the overnight Ghan train down from darwin, great experience to get the Ghan!
Had an amazing week in the camper van, we drove south to albany, stopping off at places along the way, rockingham, mandura, bunbury, bussleton, pemberton.... went to cape leewin, most south westerly point of oz, great! we loved the freedom of the van, good fun cooking on the gas stove out the back of the van! Got quite cold the further south we headed, and a bit more rain than we were used to but was nice and cosy in the van!
Flew up to Dawin on Sat, very hot and tropical up there! went on a great litchfield and kakadu national park tour, great fun! lots of hiking and swimming in waterfalls, and we saw a great aboriginal rock art sight. Camped under the stars, amazing! Our group were lovely, only 9 of us and we all really got on! Darwin great, went to 'mindle beach market' everyone watches the beautiful sunset on the beach then spend ages wandering around the market, great food stalls! Nightlife in darwin good, alot more backpackers there than we expected.
We go on a 3 day 2 night rock tour to uluru tomo, cant wait for that! It 'only' 22 in alice springs, everyone saying its chilly! We think its just right! Got 2 days to explore alice when we return from uluru, big aboriginal popultion here which we are both interested to learn more about their culture as there is such alot of racism and bad stereo-typing towards them. Our tour guide told us that even in the 1940-50 white people would go to church on a sunday morning, then go to the pub afterwards, get very drunk and go out and shoot aboriginals, so shocking, awful, and they'd only get a slap on the wrist too.
Get down to adelaide in a week or so, and pick up another van there for 3 weeks, cant wait for that!
Be in touch soon.
Soph and Si X
Had an amazing week in the camper van, we drove south to albany, stopping off at places along the way, rockingham, mandura, bunbury, bussleton, pemberton.... went to cape leewin, most south westerly point of oz, great! we loved the freedom of the van, good fun cooking on the gas stove out the back of the van! Got quite cold the further south we headed, and a bit more rain than we were used to but was nice and cosy in the van!
Flew up to Dawin on Sat, very hot and tropical up there! went on a great litchfield and kakadu national park tour, great fun! lots of hiking and swimming in waterfalls, and we saw a great aboriginal rock art sight. Camped under the stars, amazing! Our group were lovely, only 9 of us and we all really got on! Darwin great, went to 'mindle beach market' everyone watches the beautiful sunset on the beach then spend ages wandering around the market, great food stalls! Nightlife in darwin good, alot more backpackers there than we expected.
We go on a 3 day 2 night rock tour to uluru tomo, cant wait for that! It 'only' 22 in alice springs, everyone saying its chilly! We think its just right! Got 2 days to explore alice when we return from uluru, big aboriginal popultion here which we are both interested to learn more about their culture as there is such alot of racism and bad stereo-typing towards them. Our tour guide told us that even in the 1940-50 white people would go to church on a sunday morning, then go to the pub afterwards, get very drunk and go out and shoot aboriginals, so shocking, awful, and they'd only get a slap on the wrist too.
Get down to adelaide in a week or so, and pick up another van there for 3 weeks, cant wait for that!
Be in touch soon.
Soph and Si X
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Perth, Fremantle!!
hi all! having a great time in Perth(despite how pricey everything is!) We have just had a few days in fremantle, great here, found a really lovely hostel. We went to fremantle prison yesterday, really good, went to the gallows, eerie!! Went over to Rottnest island today (half hour from Perth) home to 'Quokka's' a knida mix between rat and kangaroo, strange but cute! Hired bikes and road all round the island. Soph can barely walk now, but was fun!!
We pick up a camper van tomorrow for 8 days, heading south to bunbury, where you can swim with dolphins, and to the margaret river, also up to the pinnacles desert if we have time. we fly to darwin on the 17th, going on a group 3 day, two night camping adventure to kakudu National Park (EEK!) Then we get the 'Ghan train' south to Alice Springs, where we have a few nights and are also doing another 3 day, two night camping trip to uluru, ayers rock. Then we are booked on a group 'express' 4 wheel drive down to adelaide, stopping overnight at 'coober pedy', where we camp underground for the night?! We then pick up a camper van in adelaide plan to drive along the 'great ocean road' to sydney, via melbourne and possibly tasmania, along the way!! We have got greyhound bus tickets to take us the rest of our way up Cairns, stopping wherever we want along the way, wooo!
Be in touch soon!XX
We pick up a camper van tomorrow for 8 days, heading south to bunbury, where you can swim with dolphins, and to the margaret river, also up to the pinnacles desert if we have time. we fly to darwin on the 17th, going on a group 3 day, two night camping adventure to kakudu National Park (EEK!) Then we get the 'Ghan train' south to Alice Springs, where we have a few nights and are also doing another 3 day, two night camping trip to uluru, ayers rock. Then we are booked on a group 'express' 4 wheel drive down to adelaide, stopping overnight at 'coober pedy', where we camp underground for the night?! We then pick up a camper van in adelaide plan to drive along the 'great ocean road' to sydney, via melbourne and possibly tasmania, along the way!! We have got greyhound bus tickets to take us the rest of our way up Cairns, stopping wherever we want along the way, wooo!
Be in touch soon!XX
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