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Thredbo Village Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Thredbo Village, Australia
Thredbo-this tale of woe ends in tears!!!
... of kangaroos – now that’s no biggie, you see dead kangaroos on the side of the highways everywhere you travel in Australia but the kangaroos (and only the kangaroos) all had “graffiti” on them, it looked like someone had come along ...
Day 3- on top of the WORld!!
... : The summit of Mt Kosciuszko Today my big sis and I may have climbed a mountain that had us at the highest point in Australia! Mt Kosciuszko is located 2200 meters above sea level in the Alpine Region of NSW and was founded in.... Who cares it was ...
Thredbo-chillin' in the 'hood!
... ! We just cant win with packing alleged “essential items”!!!!! By the way, I got to wear my puffy jacket yesterday in Thredbo, I was stinking hot in it but I was determined and at least I got to wear it one more time before it gets packed into ...
first full day skiing
Our first full day of skiing was great. We all had a good breakfast. Everyone wanted to get going so we left at 8:30am. We skied to school and had a great time doing it. We got to watch eachother and Josh. We got to ski school a little early ...
The Beginning of the Cold Front
... and necessary info. Then it was back on the bus to head onto our accommodation for the night in the ski resort of Thredbo. We arrived at about 6, getting our selves settled into our room where we are sharing with 2 Germans so of course Squatter mentioned ...
Aug 19, 2011
The Climb & Not so Steady Eddie!
... him there in no more worse for wear and they paid us a 100 bucks for our trouble. However we got there too late to climb Australia's highest mountain, but got to the lookout in time for the last chair lift back down - so beautiful to see snow and and so ...
Third Day of skiing
Hello! Today was anthor good day. It was just me, Amy and Tom in the group. The snow waqs terrific. At first skiing in powder snow was hard, but we got the hang of it. Amy started to say,"This is easy..." then she fell over! It was really funny. I ...
To the snow!
It was a cruel 7am when we were hustled out of bed. It was a contrast to my usal 10 am start. But that didn't stop me smiling when I got ready. Today we were going to the snow! I took us about half an hour to get ready. We jumped in the car and turned on ...
Thredbo-snow gods are not happy!
... entry fee (every day you want to go up to Thredbo to visit the town or ski, you have to pay $27 - highway robbery!!!) Thredbo town was nothing like I expected, its very hilly and all the accommodation is on terraces going up the mountain, very steep and a ...
climbed highest peak on the Australian mainland!
Today was an early start and a long drive before arriving at Mount Koszioszki (spelling to be confirmed) where we were going to climb the highest peak on the Australian Mainland. I ache in places I didn't know I have and I found out that day one of ...
Kosciuszko National Park
We took the Great Alpine Road to the Australia's Highest Mountain Mt Kosciuszko ...
Some animals
I have seen so many different and animals and photographed most of them, But to tarack them down and upload them will be an ongoing task. ...
A ski resort in Australia??!!
... fine. So after lunch we started out on the road again, into the Snowy Mountains area to our first nights stop in the village of Thredbo. Thredbo is a ski resort in the winter months and even though its summer now, it was still cold!! Its also the place ...
En route to Sydney.......SNOW too!!!
... on was, and there was the little wooden room thing. Inside there was a book to write a note in....so YEY ive made my mark in Australia now, they cant get rid of me lol. The walks have been AWESOME, we went to a gorge thing where yet again i decided i had ...
Syd - Mel Road Trip: Sydney to Thredbo
... that. We stopped for a quick photo outside Parliament House before getting back on the road again. It was late evening when we reached Thredbo Village in the Snowy Mountains. It is an Alpine area and we stayed at a ski lodge with a hot pool and a German ...
Thredbo
... and 100,000 people including migrants from 30 countries to build it. Its main purpose is to supply electricity to south east Australia and is essentially a series of huge dams. 3 villages in the area had to be relocated including Jindabyne which is ...
The Road To Sydney
... watched NEIGHBOURS! yey! The next morning was amazing... at the HOTEL we were given PANCAKES! yummy... We drove to Canberra, Australia's capital, and went for a tour in Parliament House which was interesting, had some lunch in the food court then carried ...
Mountainclimber.
Climb nearly 1500 m to the Highest mountain in Australia in one day. After 1hour I was again down in Thredbo ca. 1500 m. The hill never stop, climb again. ...
Final day in Thredbo
... memorabilia during that time as well as having some pretty good stories about the resort. He wasn’t there during the Thredbo landslide but had some interesting thoughts and knowledge of it. With the bobsled you hop onto the little sled and get ...
Fantastic Caves
These were the biggest and most beautiful caves I have been in. The stalactites and stalagmites were enormous. There were 4 caves which could be visited we managed two of them. The first had only recently been opened to the public and you could walk ...
Three days in Thredbo - Days 1 and 2
... got ourselves ready, packed some food and set off to the lift it was starting to push on to 10am anyway. There are two chairlifts at Thredbo; the Kosciuszko Express and Snowgums. The KE is the longer of the two but it was out of action so we went on ...
Headwaters of the Murray
Nice easy pack up and chat to Ina and Denis this morning. We then pushed off about 10am - destination Jindabyne. Coffee shop first where we met up with Ina and Denis for a final coffee. TIme for the 'jobs' water, shopping, laundry you know you can never ...
Mt Kosciuszko, done
We all made it all 13km's to the 2228m top of Australia's highest mountain! What an amazing view. Back at the camp we swam in Thredbo River, which was a bit chilly, but great for sore legs. ...
Into the Snowies
... was strange to see all the warnings about snow and ice and the legal requirement to carry snow chains during the winter months in Australia (The day's temperature was in the low 30s). To get to Thredbo we had to enter the Koscuiszko National Park at a ...
Plane to Kooma
... Nancy and she swaped my planes, which was good to have her there and then I was soon flying to Melbourne. When we landed I met Nanna Joan. It was good to see her. I told her all about the trip to Thredbo, but I was glad to go to sleep after a quick ...
Tintaldra, Roos, & the Great Melbourne Traffic Jam
... by the same name. We got a little more excitement than we’d expected from Betty’s place when one of Australia’s equally famous poisonous snakes made a cameo appearance. Most of the group was dutifully listening to Betty’s ...
Day two in Thredbo
Today started out windy and cold. I got up early and noticed it was really windy outside. When we all had gotten up, fed and dressed, we walked to the run it was just a cold and windy as I had expected. Dad, Amy and I had planned to do up all the way to ...
Thredbo-SNOW?? WHAT SNOW???????????????
... the pub (you would think that the pub would at least have one car parked outside, it doesn’t matter where you travel in Australia outback, there is always a car or a ute parked outside the local pub, no matter how many people live in the area). ...