Quality Hotel Frontier Darwin

... size coffee upgrade. Even the locals complain about the pricing here but no one could give me any answer why it is other than it's the local government's fault. The cashier at the grocery store told me she supposed people would be eating honey cured ham and English muffins this week since those were on special. All this is the price of admission to somewhere I have wanted to see since I was a kid so honey cured ham on English muffins it is the next few days!
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia atlpilot36

... Beach has a night market twice a week – it just happened to be the night we were there, so we hung out with a lot of locals as they watched the sunset over the Timor Sea (a tradition amongst the locals) and ate Laksa (Indonesian noodle dish). There are lots of Indonesians in this area due to the close proximity).



Our goal (well..... my goal) for the Northern Territory was to catch a barramundi fish and eat fresh mangoes - I ...

... how big his cattle station is, but very BIG!!!!


On one stretch of road in the middle of nowhere, we were driving along and came across swarms of locusts flying all around us. As we drove through each swarm, they would hit the windscreen for about 60 seconds continuously, they sounded like microwave popcorn. I was of course ducking them as they hit the windscreen.


We left Queensland behind and made it into the Northern Territory late one ...

... to do a sort of kareoke thing outside under the stars. There are hundreds, seems like thousands, of bras and panties, hats, t-shirts & business cards left behind.

... Outback ganz besonders schoenen - Sonnenauf- und untergaenge zu Gesicht...

Da unsere Outback-3-Tages-Tour (weil eine einfache Bustour zum Uluru (Ayers Rock) schon 220 Dollar kostet schliessen wir uns einer Reisegruppe fuer junge Leut an ;)) erst uebernaechsten Tag losgeht, nutzen wir die Zeit in Alice Springs natuerlich mit Stadterkundung, aber auch einer Mountainbiketour durchs Outback... wahnsinn... auch wenn ich Muehe habe hinter Johannes her ...

... apprętions a faire nos adieux aux Francais. C 'est alors que Sabine a use de son pouvoir de persuasion pour les convaincre de venir nous rejoinder en Thailande, histoire de continuer l’aventure.

Le jour de notre depart, nous de savions toujours pas s’ils allaient venir nous rejoindre.

Nous sommes donc parti le 26 juin , jour de la mort de Michael Jackson, pour Singapore…. Et c’est reparti pour plus d’aventres!

Voor de verandering weer eens vroeg op: 5u40 kwam onze hyperactieve gids ons oppikken. Het is niet echt koud, maar wanneer we op de bus zitten begint het te regenen. Vreemd in het droogseizoen! Na het ontbijt is het gestopt met regenen. Verder de baan op. We passeren Wycleff Well, het UFO centrum van Australie ( beam me up, Scotty!). een beetje later komen we bij de Devil's Marbles. We ...

Drove down the centre of Oz today, very boring! The scenery is just trees and grass which was surprising to me as thought it would be desert. As usual didn't see much of traffic although it is the only road going from North to South!! Just the odd caravan and road train. We were going to stop the night at Banka Banka which is a great Station and has a slide show in the evening about the ...