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I lived in Darwin for 9 years from the age of ten and have been back to visit many times since. I managed to take one or two photos of the place, and I thought I'd share a few with you.

12/04/06 Arrived into Darwin very bleery eyed at 4.30am to encounter the typical aussie laid back attitude. Our shuttle bus didn't turn up for ages and then when it did he went inside to have a coffee leaving us all outside! When we eventually got to the hostel we were impressed at how clean and hotel like it was. Two pools, roof terrace and card key entry, very swish. It was a bit of a culture shock though and is very like a club 18-30 holiday. Not really what we have been used to. We jus...

arrived at 2:30 am!!! Humid!!!! started 14hour drive to alice springs  and nearly ran out of petrol wooooooooo hooooooooooo

After Bangkok, we had another good few hours in the air to Darwin, where we again had about two hours in transit. It wasn't even that we could just stay on the plane and sleep, no - we had to get off, take all our stuff with us, wait for the plane to be cleaned then get back on again.   Darwin Airport isn't the most interesting place, but it had duty free so that kept me amused for a while!   And onwards, to Sydney!

Zur gleichen Zeit wie gestern, kurz nach sieben Uhr morgens, wurde ich heute wieder abgeholt - zu einem Tagesausflug in den Litchfield National Park, der sich etwa 200km südlich von Darwin befindet. Auch hier gab es als erstes Termitenburgen zu bestaunen,  diesmal aber insofern interessant, als daß es sich um längliche, in Nord-Süd Richtung ausgerichtete flache Termitenbehausungen gehandelt hat. Die Erklärung war, daß die Form der Termitenburgen immer so gewählt ist, daß eine opt...

After driving 6000 km we're finally in Darwin. The city has changed a lot since I've been here 4 years ago. It is so much bigger and much nicer. After our time in Coral Bay we drove inland to the Kirijni Nationalpark. This is a really lovely nationalpark similar to Kakadu Nationalpark. I did a walk where you actually had to walk through hipdeep water. That was really exciting and I enjoyed it so much. Kirijini has so many amazing gorges and you could spend quite a long time there and do so m...

So I was bored at my job and cold and wanted a change. I applied for a work visa through Bunac and was on my way to OZ a few weeks later. It was the best time i've had travelling alone. I visited lots of friends and snapped many photos.

02-09-2006Teritorry Explorer tours'middags rond 12:00 uur werden we opgehaald door onze gids en chauffeur (Sauce) van Wayward tours en reden we richting Wycliffe om daar de Alien kunstwerk te bekijken, terwijl hij tankt. Daar kwamen een paar Aboriginals uit de bosjes die me uit te verte heel nieuwsgierig aankeken en naar me stonden te zwaaien en te roepen. Dat vond ik heel verdacht want overal zijn ze een beetje bescheiden en de meesten groeten niet eens. Deze waren een beetje te enthousiast ...

We, my travelmate Wilma and I, made plans together to see a lot of Australia. The country is so big that we decided to see only a few parts of it. We started in Hong Kong (stop-over), Saw Darwin, Uluru, Cape york to Cairns, Great barrier reef and drove along the coast to Brisbane.

Trip to the auzzy territory

We arrived 4-30am in the morning very tired.  We spent the first day sleeping and exploring.  Its so weird to be in a place with so many backpackers.  We got filmed making dinner in the hostel kitchen by the Discovery channel who were following a couple of lads backpacking for a few months.  We are starting to realise that we never seem to have a normal day on this trip and more or less every day something happens to surprise us!! On the second day we hired bikes an...

Australia III - This time we started in Brisbane, took a flight up North to Darwin, went on a 4day Kakadu Nat Park 4WD Tour, took another flight to Cairns and from there we rented a camper to travel back down South to Brisbane. Will we ever make it.?

4 week trip to Australia 15 dec tm 11 jan 08.

Early morning, last chance to check my phone if anyone remembered it! No messages, oh well it was still very early in the morning. The only text I received that morning was one from my landlord wanting me to call him!!! hahaha - no way - I was defiantly not going to call him from Australia just to tell him I am in Australia! Especially when I have told him two days before I left that I was going on this holiday and he should contact my parents in case someone w...

Well we were back in Darwin and have 8 hours until our flight at 0130. Changing in the hotel car park, a not so nice dinner and a whole bunch of games of mobile phone Tetris. Why do they fly so late out of here.