Best Western Darwin

DECEMBER 2007 There is a place on earth rainier than England. And it's called Vancouver.

Perth. De vlucht van Darwin naar deze stad was turbulent. Bij het opstijgen vertelde de kapitein al dat er iets aan zat te komen. Het 'fasten your seatbelt' lampje zou daarom iets langer aan blijven. Nou, de turbulentie kwam er. Het was misschien maar ...

... comes and we have been looking forward to this night, as we are going to TIO Stadium to watch NT Thunder play Greater Western Sydney in AFL. GWS has the boom recruit from rugby league, Israel Faleo. Thunder has Andrew McLeod (ex Adelaide Crow) playing ...

... part of the country, and though they send representatives to the national government, their votes don’t really count. Darwin is best known for being bombed by the Japanese during WWII (as depicted in the recent movie “Australia”) and ...

... ), I would certainly recommend Vietnam to any traveller looking for an adventure and looking to experience a place so different from the western lifestyle so many of us are used to. After saying goodbye to Vietnam and all the wonderful people I met, I ...

... amount of information about Aboriginal culture and I even went as far as drafting a tongue in cheek comparison with Western culture. However, from our experience of Aborigines, the idealized rubbish that the Australian Tourist Board want you to believe, ...

Broome is the holiday destination of choice for many western Australians and we were keen to see what all the hype was about. In short, our experience there was rather average. Cable Beach is rated as one of the best beaches in the world but we didn't ...

... scheduled much time in Adelaide so I put the afternoon to good use and looked around the city centre with Michelle, a friend from my Western Australia tour. Later we met another friend, also from the same trip (we all wound up in Adelaide on the same ...

... leave Darwin on Friday afternoon, assuming our fridge is fixed, but with Darwin time nothing is certain.We will head across to Western Australia and the Kimberley's ...............................................so stay tuned for some real adventures ...

... ride from Darwin to Kununurra, which for the Australians who don’t know (and surprisingly there are a lot of them) is in Western Australia not the Northern Territory. So, once again it looked like it would be a good time to reflect on my ...

... to friends at the first hostel we stayed in we left at midday to begin what turned out to be a truly epic journey... Broome - Darwin. After making the two hour drive to Derby we found the crazy German and lazy Italian got them in the car and set off ...

... scaling round outcrops and tripping over branches and bush. Let alone what spiders (sorry Anna, I said the word - just wait till the Darwin entry. Prob best not to look at those photos)are in there. And i got to the best place. I rock. Wow is all you ...

After Kakadu it was time to get out of Darwin and try somewhere new. There was an ad in the hostel looking for people to share a lift to Broome on the west coast. Nina from Germany was the owner of the camper van and also along for the ride were Claudia ...

... of updates folks - I've been really busy (no, really!) for the last few weeks. First was my trip from Broome to Darwin, through the Kimberleys, the most remote area of Australia. Despite the closure of a few sights due to the rainy season, this ...

... the 300km round trip to Wolfe Creek meteorite crater, the second largest in the world was abandoned. I had bought a 5 litre petrol can in Darwin to ensure enough fuel but it wasn't to be. It was still raining lightly at 0515hrs when I got up so I decided ...

... about a tenth the size of Geraldton. The only bar in town was in our hostel. And that was crap. Exmouth is one of the best dive sites in the world. But we weren't diving. rubbish. Day 5: Left Exmouth early and tried to go through this Marine ...

... . We saw birds, more crocodiles, water buffalos, and wild horses called brumbies. We spent the night in Katherine at the Best Western Pine Tree Motel. After supper we stayed in the dining hall and had the service. Karl joined us for the service. It ...

... 8217; eggs which were larger than a golf ball but smaller than a tennis ball.   We wandered about 2km to the western side of the island looking for the turtles themselves and I do admit I was slightly distracted by all the beautiful shells lying ...

... up the rock face and do all kinds of extravagant dives from 8m, and having interactions with a huge water monitor, a turtle and a Western Brown snake. The snake was in the Top 10 most venomous in the world, very shy though so when we crowded around it ...

... Japanese and a Kiwi. We had a Kiwi taking the tour, Celia, and Gary (Aussie) gave her a hand as he does the tours in Western Australia and tagged along to see what it was like over here. We get to Litchfield NP and visit Florence Falls. It is a pool ...