Darwin, Australia Travel Blogs

Meet the Crockers
Jul 5, 2007 (9 photos)

... 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 washing on ...

Welcome to the Top End
Jul 2, 2007 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

Life in the Top End
Sep 2, 2005 (1 photos)

... 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 ...

ROAD TRIP
Jun 15, 2003 (17 photos)

... 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, ...

The Orange bit with flies
Dec 10, 2004 (10 photos)

... >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 past ...

Day 220
Apr 24, 2007 (1 photos)

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 for ...

Just passing through, and wasting time...for now
Feb 13, 2007

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 ...

Destination Darwin
Aug 28, 2005

... 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 always ...

2700 Kilometers in the desert
Jun 13, 2005 (6 photos)

... 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 Outback!

Chapter 21: Finding Nemo
Jan 16, 2004 (22 photos)

... 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 ...

Kakadu NP & Darwin - Day 208
Sep 17, 2008 (28 photos)

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 crocs ...

Day 219
Apr 23, 2007 (3 photos)

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 the ...

Days 228-231
May 5, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 people.

Toad Jockey
Sep 20, 2004 (2 photos)

... 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!
Sep 20, 2006 (34 photos)

... 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
Mar 20, 2008 (21 photos)

... 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 much ...

Days 221-223
Apr 27, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Marina life (and portrait of a territorian)
Jul 21, 2005 (13 photos)

... adventure, so whilst I have time, regular sleeping patterns and landlubber's sense of balance I might as well talk a little about Darwin itself. It has been interesting to visit a place that I was recently considering a relocation to for a career move. ...

Kakadu-doo-doo
Feb 25, 2004 (8 photos)

c... Last words from Australia, before we head into the Asia Massive. The weather pattern has just turned into regular London drizzle, so have been feeling at home, apart from the heat. Our Kakadu trip was a welcome break from Darwin, even the early ...

No more buses!!!
Jul 7, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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
May 4, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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 always ...

Darwin and Kakadoo
Sep 30, 2004

... 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 our ...

On top at last!
Feb 20, 2004 (2 photos)

A... We've now reached our last stop off in Australia - the top end. We're in Darwin for a few days now, though tomorrow we'll be heading off to Kakadu, which is meant to be one of the best national parks in Australia. We'll be seeing it at its wettest, ...

Beer Can Regatta
Jul 18, 2005 (9 photos)

... 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 serviceable ...

Decided to Move on
May 22, 2006

... I may as well try my luck fruit picking again for a month and Queensland is the place to be. It's also another part of Australia that I didn't think I'd get a chance to visit on this trip so I am happy. I spent far too much time (and money) in Darwin and ...

Having a Short Holiday
Apr 14, 2006 (3 photos)

After travelling all the way through the centre of Australia to reach Darwin we feel in need of a little rest. Well we haven't been resting all the time as we have been writing CV's and emailing them off to agencies in town in the hope of finding some work ...

Day 246-252: Alice Springs/Darwin
May 22, 2005

... 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 Alice. ...

Darwin: Warmth and more good fortune
Jul 13, 2005 (4 photos)

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 ...

Labuan - Brunei - Darwin
Sep 29, 2004

... 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 ...

Top End Explorer
Sep 2, 2004

... 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 ...