Destination: Australia

Photos: Lisbon

Wed, 20 May 2015 | By hethoandstokesyseuropeanadventure | Photo Gallery

O2 add water + sunshine = Townsville

Tue, 19 May 2015 | By ejfraser | Views [206] | Scholarship Entry

Less than twenty minutes after arriving in the city that plays gate-keeper to the Great Barrier Reef, you will feel like slipping into a pair of comfy shoes and soaking up enough salted fresh air to survive Armageddon. DO NOT be lured into relaxation ... Read more >

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Santa Teresa

Tue, 19 May 2015 | By geemc | Views [437] | Scholarship Entry

There isn’t much at Santa Teresa. On first glance, it is exactly like any other place in the Australian outback – just another patch of red sand in the vast expanse of nothingness, smack bang in the middle of the continent. But Santa Teresa, or Ltyentye ... Read more >

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Day 18 – 18th May 2015 Monday – HoiAn

Tue, 19 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [311]

Headed off for a walk at 5.45am and was walking down by the River when I remembered I was to ring mum again at 6am. I quickly turned around and it was 6.15 when I called her. Chatted for 20 min and then went out again to the local market. On the way ... Read more >

Kakadu, Me and all the things I saw

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By aubreyreynolds | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry

I believe that travelling is about moments. The unique moments to you and who you shared them with. Even the most remote places have been travelled; documented; seen. But not by you. I recently backpacked across Australia for the best part of a year and ... Read more >

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Day 17 - 17th May 2015 Sunday - HoiAn

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [401]

I went walking into town along the River and went across to Cam Nam Island to have a look at Dong’s house and then I wondered the back streets of HoiAn looking for the Banh Xi Queen. Breakfast menu had a few more items this morning and Kevin ordered ... Read more >

Karijini national park

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By annamaria | Views [227] | 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 [519] | 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 [372]

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 [644]

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 [205] | 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 [411]

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 [296] | 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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