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... fauna. Today mostly monkeys prevail, wily bonnet macaques who lie in wait to snatch food from unsuspecting tourists, and the gentle golden langurs seen in the forests. If you are lucky you may also see the Giant Squirrel - Ratufa Indica Elphinstonii, ...

... a very old city, Veliko Tarnovo, which kept its local flavors I have arrived to the other pole, the tourists paradise.     Golden Sands (Zlatni Piasaci in bulgarian) is one of the best summer resorts in Bulgaria. There's not much to see ...

... accommodation on the journey and were met at the Surfers Transit Centre by the shuttle bus to the hostel. The hostel, the Surfers Paradise Backpackers Resort, was fairly average in price at $72 (29 GBP) per night for a double room in a self-contained ...

How to sum up Surfers Paradise....... well its like Gran Canaria or I imagine Magaluf or Kavos. Lots of big high rise buildings, lights, bars, clubs and the beach. The beach is the nicest part of it. Surfers is towards the end of a 35km long beach - ...

... sun, that we just had to stop at a beach en route for a quick dip to cool off. From the beach we could see Surfers Paradise across the water and in the distance, it had a Vegas look about it, big tall buildings just looming out of the horizion, consisting ...

Well...there weren't that many surfers, and I wouldn't exactly describe it as paradise....but it was fun! Surfers Paradise is (although I've never been to USA) how I imagine Miami to be....long golden beaches, lined with huge skycrapers. There were also ...

When I first laid my footprints on the golden sands of Surfers Paradise decade and a half ago, I was in awe and wow. What a beautiful place, I thought to myself then, endless beaches dotted with skyscrapers along the ocean front. Never have I seen a place ...

... place initially...however it has rained and rained and rained until...  ...AT LAST we have had a sunny day in Surfer's Paradise. Having spent 3 nights here already, we had until this morning only had torrential rain and humidity, but we woke up this ...

... off to surf on her own (No sharks around this time fortunately, yet I kept my distance just in case) Yes – This is Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast of Queensland. For us the Gold Coast is a place we had been looking forward to one of the most; ...

... ($6A) and enjoyed a couple of hours swimming and relaxing by the Black Sea.  The whole area is the Surfers Paradise of Bulgaria with massive high rise luxury resorts, carnival rides, allocated beach areas, parasailing and masses of cafe’s, ...

Ivan came with us today on our ticky-touring.  We drove to Surfers Paradise, which took us about an hour from Ipswitch.  Luckily it wasn't too busy, being a Tuesday and in winter.  Very much like the postcard view that you see.  We ...

Surfers Paradise is a place you either hate or love. We all ended up loving it, its like Australia's Miami. The view from the bus on the way to Surfers from across the shore is just insane. Its an impressive long strip of skyscrapers dotting the huge ...

... massive entry costs... it persuaded us not to go to Movie-world the next day! The next day we spent exploring Surfers Paradise, driving through the streets lined with posh apartments and high end fashion stores... not really our scene, but fun to see! ...

... still waking me up at 6am. It's well worth it. Everyone should be so lucky to start their day off by walking along the golden sands and paddling in the water here. And of course it's all topped off nicely by a chat with the Lorikeets :) Yesterday was ...

We picked a campground that turned out to be the landing zone for hang gliders and para-sail gliders so every few hours a group of them would come in and make things interesting.  If we had stayed an extra day, I would have booked a tandem ...

... ups! Sweet! Once our day was over we headed back to our car to grab Steve and head to our New Hostel called Backpackers Paradise. Upon arriving we found out the hostel screwed up as we booked a 4 person dorm 3 days in advance but they never "received ...

... south from our home in Brisbane. Spent an afternoon swimming in the sea and building sand castles. Stayed in the tacky but imaginative Paradise Resort (don't go unless you have kids). It was a landmark event for us - Skye's first time in kid's club, ...

... 40 minutes and gave some insight into life in the Antarctic. Shortly before 1600 the scientists left with some supplies from the Golden Princess and we were ready to make tracks back out of the bay into the Bransfield Strait. At first we paralleled the ...

... mania in Byron Bay  so we decided to stay at a smaller hostel in Southport which sits a 5 minute drive out of surfers Paradise.  The hostel was great, very friendly with a  free breakfast and the manager gave us a double room for $5 more ...

... mania in Byron Bay  so we decided to stay at a smaller hostel in Southport which sits a 5 minute drive out of surfers Paradise.  The hostel was great, very friendly with a  free breakfast and the manager gave us a double room for $5 more ...

... Carlton & United Breweries. They brew Victoria Bitter, one of Australia's most popular brews, here between Brisbane and Surfers Paradise. Unfortunately, we were about thirty minutes too late for a brewery tour. This would have been quite the operation ...