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Darwin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Darwin, Australia
Meet the Crockers
This is a top pick! ... rush over your shoulders giving you a lovely strong massage. Such an excellent way to end our visit to Kakadu. We were back in Darwin by 6pm and checked back into the Cav in a private room with ensuite and real sheets. Luxury! We hastily put our ...
Welcome to the Top End
This is a top pick! ... on to Edith falls where some of the braver ones got into the cold water for a swim. After lunch we drove straight through to Darwin arriving about 4:30pm. I can't say I was sad to be leaving this tour. Nine days was plenty. There were one or two people I ...
Leaving South East Asia in style
This is a top pick! ... . I explained that we were just given them and weren’t sure why. It led us to a nice long conversation about living in Australia as he had emigrated years back and it made my flight a lot easier than recent trips into the air. Food service looked ...
Life in the Top End
This is a top pick! ... some warm clothes from my backpack. I hope that I am not in for a nasty temperature shock on the East Coast! When I leave Darwin I will have to say goodbye to some of my long term travelling friends that I have known since Perth. And of course this ...
Welcome to the Land Down Under
This is a top pick! We arrived in Darwin a little worse for wear, having not slept in Bangkok the night before our flights to Australia and having not really slept on the flights as they were both short, with a short stop in Singapore. The first thing we did was bed down on ...
Day 220
This is a top pick! We got to Alice Springs around 2pm and the girls leave the train here for a few days in Alice while I continue to Darwin. Since the train is stationary here for a few hours I decided to go with the girls to the hostel to book my accommodation and tours ...
2700 Kilometers in the desert
This is a top pick! ... Greek festival that we went to but basically there isn't much to do in Darwin. The only weird thing is that it doesn't feel at all like the Australia that I've seen so far. There is something more authentic about this city. Welcome to the ...
Destination Darwin
This is a top pick! ... before flying to Brisbane, which will be the last Australian state capital that I have not yet visited. I'm glad that before leaving Australia I will have spent time in each State and Territory, but it is impossible to see everything in one trip. You ...
Kakadu NP & Darwin - Day 208
This is a top pick! The massive Kakadu national park is in the Arnheim wet-lands just south-west of Darwin, this region of Australia is known as "The top end" for obvious reasons. Kakadu has some of the most varied wildlife on the continent which includes big salt water ...
The Orange bit with flies
This is a top pick! ... ! >I> Very old.. A couple of hours of "butt busting" later and we were in the heart of Kakadu. It's pure postcard Australia here: orange dust leaps up behind the van, the view is of barren, untamed land, and Emus and Kangeroos occasionally saunter ...
ROAD TRIP
This is a top pick! ... prolific and huge mossies we had ever come across - eaten alive doesn't begin to describe the itchty bitchy agony. Australia - The wrap Going the distances: 19,700kms driven Transports of delight: 4WDs, campervans, taxis, buses, horses, camels, ...
Chapter 21: Finding Nemo
This is a top pick! ... shopping scene and mall for its size. Too bad the prices for T-shirts and shorts are just as high as the rest of Australia! The days ran together a little, as Saturday and Sunday were much the same as Friday. The weather was consistent too: hot and ...
Day 219
This is a top pick! Today I started the second of the great Australian train journeys - The Ghan. I'll be travelling all the way to Darwin in this journey which is the entire length of the Ghan. I only did the Perth-Adelaide section of the Indian Pacific and will complete ...
Days 228-231
This is a top pick! ... photos. On Friday 4th I was left to reflect on a really good time I'd had in Darwin. It wasn't the travelling as I've come to know it. I didn't even see the limited sights around Darwin. I'd just had an excellent week and a half with some great ...
Toad Jockey
This is a top pick! ... life as he drove Fat B*****d to victory and won a bottle of beer. It was a very funny evening but most bizarre. Anyway back to Darwin, the main reason for us coming here was to visit Kakadu national park, which we were to do early the next day. When we ...
Darwin from Sydney, the road trip!
This is a top pick! ... on most of the Mad Max films! If you want to see a bizarre place, then you gotta see this place. Its actually in Southern Australia (but close to the Northern Territory) and is only on the map for it's vast supply of Opal that is mined there. Its had its ...
Ben and Leah hit the NT
This is a top pick! ... in. After being showed our room and given a key by a guy who was originally from Adelaide (for a small city Adelaide certainly populates Australia well!) we settled into bed at 4am. I'm pretty sure I was asleep within a couple of minutes and it seemed not ...
Days 221-223
This is a top pick! ... a very early morning the next day. On Wednesday and Thursday I've just taken things easy and spent time around the city of Darwin. I watched both Champions League Semi Finals by going to the Casino in the dead of night and saw a great movie - The Last ...
Just passing through, and wasting time...for now
This is a top pick! Hot steamy Darwin marks my return to the western world. Have a 24 hr layover right now and my body clock is all messed up now from these overnight flights. Got another 2 tonight to get to Christchurch mid day on V-day. Then, its straight ...
Beware UFOs (Unstoppable Freaked-out Oxen)
This is a top pick! ... they had no start in life. This was not how we'd imagined Aborigines to be having been brainwashed to a certain degree by Australia's love of their first lady, Cathy Freeman and from what we'd seen and read already, most white Aussies would rather they ...
Marina life (and portrait of a territorian)
This is a top pick! ... resentment in the local aboriginals that seems to permeate the atmosphere in Alice Springs. There's a great multicultural feel due to Darwin's proximity to Asia and it's big enough to have a distinctive style and identity that will grow as the city ...
Darwin and Kakadoo
This is a top pick! ... 32.50, dinner 22.20, hot choc 3.20. Fri 24th Sep - Day 150 An enjoyable hot sunny day spent cycling round Darwin. The capital of Northern Australia has been a very pleasant surprise. We hadn't looked into it a great deal as it wasn't really ever in ...
Crocodile Dundee Country - Darwin....10-13 April
This is a top pick! ... other I guessed was his partner from Denmark. They were nice and friendly, I also realised it wasn’t just me who thought Australia was really expensive. The English guy too said he thought the same, and he’s been out here several times before. ...
No more buses!!!
This is a top pick! ... time to pack up had arrived. Feeling quite sad to leave we boarded our last Easyrider bus, destined for Australia's newest and smallest city, Darwin. Before getting there though, we had the small fact of covering the mere 1000kms that separates Kununurra ...
Australia - Darwin
This is a top pick! ... bring it up to date. Spending the morning in town we then headed for the Cullen Bay Marina (PIC), a quiet, tranquil area of Darwin based around a small boating marina. The whole place was deserted, either because it was a Sunday or perhaps the area is ...
Labuan - Brunei - Darwin
This is a top pick! ... and even the meal was good. After about 3 1/4 hours we caught our first glimpse of Australia and 10 minutes later we touched down smoothly in Darwin. On filling out our quarantine cards we realised w hadn't touched our bagged solomon trainers since ...
Day 246-252: Alice Springs/Darwin
This is a top pick! ... decided to make an announcement over the end of the film, well I guess we all know they lived happily ever after. Arrived into Darwin on time around half 4 and god was it hot when we stepped of the air conditioned train, low 30s, big difference from ...
Beer Can Regatta
This is a top pick! ... 't planning an entry until mid week, but then again I wasn't expecting to get lucky and see a beer can regatta before I left Australia either! So here I am. For the uninitiated, a beer can regatta is a zany event that involves competing teams building a ...
Top End Explorer
This is a top pick! ... each one. There are some highlights that stick out however. This trip was certainly my favourite of all the tours I took in Australia. The fact that the temperature stayed somewhere between fairly warm and very hot, made a bit of a difference! The next ...
Darwin: Warmth and more good fortune
This is a top pick! It's good to be out of winter and into somewhere more tropical. Darwin - land of the free and sweaty. It has to be the perfect time to visit this place as there are no bugs, the temperature is a couple of degrees below the 32 degree average of the rest of ...