For some reason, we always get terrible weather when we visit a big city… Canberra was no exception. Luckily, to see the most interesting sights in this “artificial capital”, you don’t need an umbrella. Canberra was engineered as the nation’s capital, because Sydney and Melbourne couldn’t settle their rivalry to become Australia’s most important city….
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Since we arrived in the Blue Mountains, we kept on wondering why they call it the Blue Mountains. If you take a closer look, they are orange, red or green, not blue at all. On our four-day excursion we came up with several explanations, but weren’t entirely sure. So: Google to the rescue!!! It’s not…
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Our tips to do Sydney on a budget: Find an awesome host family. Take the bus into the CBD: it’s not only very efficient, it’s also pretty cheap! (and you don’t have shelf out the $$$ to park in the CBD, pay tolls, etc.) Don’t have drinks anywhere, unless it’s happy hour. Our favorites: 2…
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Whether Sovereign Hill is amazing, will remain a question to us (for now). While traveling in Australia, lots of people recommended this gold rush theme park to us. So once we arrived at the entrance we were absolutely thrilled! Until… we saw the admission fee… Frankly, it’s not thát outrageous ($55.50/pp), but to be honest,…
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It’s been a while since we had to wake up very early. We were told that there are some amazing lookouts at sunrise in the Grampians National Park. So we woke up at 4AM to drive to one of these amazing places: The Pinnacle The drive was pretty challenging with all the kangaroos hopping in…
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Driving the Australian roads keeps surprising you. It’s not always nature that is worth stopping for, once in a while you get blown away by man-made things. The beautiful paintings on these huge silos are just AWESOME! We saw this one driving from Mildura to the Grampians. Apparently there is a whole trail you can…
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Since some unexpected costs cut into our travel budget, we went looking for free campsites. In the past, we haven’t had much luck with these. Either there are millions of flies and mozzies, or there’s too much wind, or it’s too hard to get the tent pegs in, or all of the above… However, it…
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It hardly ever rains in Silverton, an old outback silver mining town, now populated exclusively by artists, pub staff, and donkeys. It also served as the backdrop for many iconic Australian movies, the most famous of which was Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Of course we brought the Belgian weather-gods with us, and visited…
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Sommige mensen gaan het misschien niet geloven, maar wij doen soms ook wel eens iets cultureel (niet alleen café cultuur ;-)). Een aanrader in Broken Hill zijn de kunstwerken in de “Living Desert”. Deze 12 zandstenen werken van verschillende beeldhouwers van overal ter wereld, kronen een heuvel in een mooi stukje outback en zijn zeer…
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To protect the sheep (at least those that don’t get hit by cars), the worlds longest fence was built. It stretches out over 5300km through several states and makes sure the dingoes are kept on the other side of the fence. The sight on its own isn’t really spectacular; it’s a fence… It’s just really…
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