Destination: Australia

Karijini national park

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By annamaria | Views [186] | Scholarship Entry

Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Great Ocean Road - I had seen it all and I still felt I did not experience the “true” Australia. My mind was full of images of red roads, wild animals and wilderness. I wanted to feel the freedom of being at ... Read more >

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Loch Ard Cemetery

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By emptynester | Views [440] | Scholarship Entry

Gusts of freezing wind whirling around tombstones and biting into flesh might seem a strange choice for a travel tale. Yet when we overshot the tourist viewpoint for the limestone stacks of the iconic Twelve Apostles, we stumbled upon a place of haunting ... Read more >

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Photos: Island Spirits Nomadic Nights

Sun, 17 May 2015 | By nomadicnights | Photo Gallery

Day 16 - 16th May 2015 Saturday – HoiAn

Sun, 17 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [286]

Didn't go walking this morning as starting to feel fatigued. After breakfast went to helmet shop to take a photo of the helmet that Kevin liked. Sent it to Vang who is going to go and buy it for us at local price. On way to An Bang Beach I passed through ... Read more >

Photos: Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb

Sun, 17 May 2015 | By goannasnake | Photo Gallery

Scared of heights? Unfit? Don’t like ladders? What would you do in Sydney?

Sun, 17 May 2015 | By goannasnake | Views [558]

Climb the Harbour Bridge, of course. At least, that’s what I did. The weather was absolutely awful – cold and very wet. What would you expect in the middle of winter? Well, it could have been fine, but it wasn’t. Everyone else thought ... Read more >

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The Big Pineapple

Sun, 17 May 2015 | By piccolo | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry

Having spent most our allotted travel money on a rudimentary collection of parts masquerading as a street-legal vehicle from a chap in a dusty north Queensland town where the only other inhabitant seemed to be a one-legged chicken working at the post ... Read more >

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Day 15 – 15th May 2015 Friday - HoiAn

Sat, 16 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [331]

Headed down toward the River this morning and as I came around the corner I met a guy Gary Hagan from Sydney Australia also walking. I walked along with him and chatted. He is now living in HoiAn and has just signed a 6 month lease on a house out toward ... Read more >

Getting lost with Fat-tailed Dunnarts

Fri, 15 May 2015 | By beharding | Views [266] | Scholarship Entry

I was once told, if you trail your left hand along the wall when inside a maze you will always find your way out. I was hoping this theory applied to the world beyond mazes as I drove along a crudely-slapped-together, dusty road in a borrowed car of ... Read more >

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Day 14 – 14th May 2015 - HoiAn

Fri, 15 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [326]

Walked to Cho Tan An Market and bought a mango and some laundry detergent. Kevin went along the river and across to Cam Nam Island to look at where Dong has built his house. Kevin says the work on the second floor is progressing. After breakfast, I tried ... Read more >

Finishing Auckland and Perth

Thu, 14 May 2015 | By meriadoc262 | Views [176]

Sorry this one took a little bit to get out. I wanted to put it out after I had finished up my stay in Perth. Not like any of you are waiting with baited breath to hear what I've been doing. Trust me, it's not that interesting. Anyway... I finished up ... Read more >

Day 13 – 13th May 2015 – HoiAn

Thu, 14 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [365]

I decided to walk to Cua Dai Beach this morning while Kevin was having a lazy morning staying in bed. The road was busy so it was a little difficult avoiding the traffic. On the way back I heard this voice call out to me and it was Hien and her 4yo daughter ... Read more >

Samaya's Ashram

Thu, 14 May 2015 | By zoedots | Views [427] | Scholarship Entry

After six months working at a hostel in Sydney, Australia, the time had come to take the mandatory backpacker’s trip to Byron Bay, a town of surfers, dreadlocks, and hippies recently returned from Thailand sporting hair wraps and beaded anklets. Hoping ... Read more >

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Photos: Profile Pic

Wed, 13 May 2015 | By wogolin | Photo Gallery

Age no Great Barrier on the Reef

Wed, 13 May 2015 | By wogolin | Views [378] | Scholarship Entry

After 25 years I find myself once again anticipating one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World. Sun kissed, scantily clad, Swedish, twenty somethings mingle onboard ensuring every tourist is attended to. My mind meanders to when I was a bronzed, bony, ... Read more >

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