After a couple of days in Melbourne we decided to hire a car for 4 days to visit the surrounding areas of Melbourne. French Island French Island and its National Park was our first stop. This island is isolated and undeveloped and can be reached via ferry. To discover the island, we decided to hire bikes. Discovered in April 1802 by a...
Western Australia was the state where my GAP Year (actually thanks to the WHV and the Tourist Visa I stayed longer than a year) started and the place where I spent more time during my stay Down Under. Western Australia general Info It is Australia´s largest state, comprising 1/3 of its land mass therefore it offers a huge variety of...
When I started reading about Australia to figure out what I wanted to see of this gorgeous and huge country I came across The Indian Pacific train journey which takes 4 days and takes you from coast to coast. Since I started my journey in Perth in September and that I wanted to be in Sydney in December – I decided that this was the...
Monkey Mia Reserve General information Monkey Mia Reserve is situated 860km north of Perth and is part of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area – the first location in Western Australia to receive UNESCO status in 1991. Shark Bay – “Gutharragura” for the Aboriginal people means “Two Waters” because of the...
In 2007 when I first came to Australia I did not visit Darwin. I saw it just as a stopover for my Darwin – Adelaide adventure. This time I decided to visit this tiny state capital and I discovered that Darwin is much more than just the gate away for Litchfield and the World Heritage-listed wilderness of Kakadu National Park. ...
This is really a lovely road trip to do. I won´t be talking about Adelaide & surroundings like beautiful Kangaroo Island (if you wish to read about it please go to the “Adelaide and Penola” article). Let´s start saying that if you are running out of time you should still consider 3 days to complete this route. In this...
The Litchfield National Park – how to get there & some general hints A famous Darwin escape is The Litchfield National Park which is approx. one hour and a half drive from Darwin. Being so close to Darwin we decided to rent a car in order to visit the area at our paste but if you are not keen in renting a car or you simply are...
No visit to Australia is completed without a stopover in Manly/Sydney…at least for me. This time we were not lucky with the weather – it rained every day apart from the day we had booked (almost 5months before) a dive. Shore Dive @ Manly Beach The Shore Dive was at Shelly beach, the day was sunny, and the visibility was...
10 years ago, when I first got to Australia I spent just one day in Exmouth and I promised myself to be back one day. Finally, the day had come! Normally once you get back to a place where you have been at a younger age you get disappointed but Exmouth did definitely not disappoint me. I felt again in love with Exmouth as I felt the...
The journey started with 7 hours delay from Doha to Sydney due to a technical problem of the plane. We got offered breakfast – please be aware that even though the company does bring you to a specific restaurant you can normally decide where to go. Do not make the same mistake as we did going with the others to find out that the...