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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.

Next stop for the van Duijn family: Darwin and surrounds. We’ve hired a camper to get around and after my family picks me up from the airport we drive to Jabiru, a wannabe town in eastern Kakadu National Park. Kakadu’s beautiful, and it’s a shame we can’t see much from inside the camper. I love campers though. It’s probably for the same reason why I love aircraft toilets. Again, so much stuff fitted in to such a small space, everything’s in there and that on maybe 12 square meters…

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

Spent two weeks up in Darwin northern Australia in 2004. Did a 3 day backpacker tour of Kakadu NP then hired a campervan and explored Litchfield NP, Katherine Gorge, Mataranka Hot Springs then back into Kakadu.

Woke up really early but stayed in bed til around 10am when I met H to do some washing as our clothes were absolutely filthy. Had a smoothie and waited for stuff to dry which took til past midday. We then went with K + R to the Art Museum at Fannie Bay which was free. Caught the #4 bus from Cavenagh St for 50 cents (bargain, so much cheaper than Melbourne!). The museum was great. It had heaps of Aboriginal art, a Cyclone Tracey exhibit, a natural history section, 'Sweetheart (a 5.1m stuffed c…

Darwin is the Northern Territory’s multi-cultural capital. Visitors to Darwin enjoy a relaxed, tropical lifestyle, with wonderful sunsets, city street shaded by palms, bamboo, mango trees and masses of flowering tropical shrubs like the fragrant frangipani and the iridescent blooms of the bougainvillea.

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…

Caught a lift back to Broome on Friday nice and early with a local Derby family I had met the day before at their Art Gallery.....thanks guys.... and caught flight from Broome airport arriving in Darwin about 2.30 p.m.  Caught shuttle bus direct to accomodation (Darwin Central Hotel..very nice!) and spent the arvo having a slow meander round town...whoops city..... . Only had the weekend to explore as my friend (flew in from Brisbane at midnight) and I were heading off with "Advent…

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…

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 …

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.

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