Darwin Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Hey all, Sitting waiting for my flight to singapore, have had an awesome time in the Top end! We both managed to go on a 3 day camping trip to Kakadu national park, which is nearly bigger than Switzerland! It involved a lot of treking throught the bush in the heat and visiting waterfalls.. plus looking for crocs! It was definately a true aussie ...

This Camper was snazzy to say the least, we managed to get a six berth camper for $5 dollars a day and after a brief trip to Alice Springs emergency department we headed north for Darwin. (Nothing serious but next time I say don't pick your bites they will get infected, hopefully someone might listen to me!) We didn't get far on the first day of...

Almost as far north as we'll be going in Oz we are now in Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory - our second state! Great to back in civilisation after so many days out in the bush - I'd like to think it was a coincidence that we arrived the same day the Rugby World Cup starts but at least it explains why Jon was keen to do so much driving o...

The flight from Bali left at midnight and arrived in Darwin at 4am. As I didn`t have accomodation booked til the next night, I hung around the airport til about nine before getting to the hostel and some sleep. Darwin seems quite small but nice, all the restaurants and bars are outdoor and there`s a nice atmosphere around the place. Seems quite ...

Kakadu National Park is Aboriginal land and enclosed by a 50m high sandstone cliff line escarpment which separates it from the settlements in Arnhem Land. It has an abundance of wildlife and has recently had the worst floods for 30 years making the waterfalls even more spectacular. It is famous for 50,000 year old rock art, home to the highest c...

DARWIN (27 September 2006 - 11 October 2006) We arrive in Darwin mid afternoon and decide to stay at Lee Point Caravan Park, some 20 minutes on the coast in Darwin. There is a lovely beach area, which is more like a bay down the bottom of the street and two resort style swimming pools here and a lot of shady ground. We soon discover from our fri...

G'day! Apparently one of the 'must do's' of Darwin is Kakudu national Park, so armed with Rob (and his car 'Tim Henman'), two tents, various cooking equipment and loadsa rubbish food, we headed off to Kakudu (which is about 3 hours drive outside of Darwin). On our way there, we decided to stop off at the Jumping Crocodile wildlife tour which was...

Well, we certainly had enough rest days, the Ole 55s! Thursday was yet another Rest Day and a crowd of us went out to Kakadu by air, organized by Tall Fee's daughter Victoria, who is a pilot. One Ole 55 who will remain nameless, now holds the honour of using the highest number of those little paper bags EVER! Others went to Lichfield National Pa...

After a day wandering around town, we walked out to the night markets at about 4pm, which are the place to go on a Thursday night in Darwin. There were lots of beautiful jewellery stalls, and a few nice clothes stalls. But the best stalls by far were the food, and there was loads of asian food there. I had a huge spring roll followed by a big cu...

Customs was a tedious affair, we ahd to apss through passport control, where they asked about accomodation and other customs items, and then collect our bags, then they had to be checked by sniffer dogs, then passed through another scanner whlst we were asked questions. I was carrying a set of chopsticks and some tiny wooden faces (and also I fo...