Travelogues Australia

Who knows what a cassowary is? Please read in the blog...

My alarm clock woke me up at 9:30am. 30 minutes left to pack up my stuff and check out from the hostel. I’m very happy with the way my backpack is organized. Everything has its...

Then we continued south, the landscape suddenly reminded me of home, some feelings of home came up: Gentle green hills, forests and fields and cows! In between idyllic...

Yesterday was rather more unspectacular. Over 6 hours on the road. Mostly rainy and rather cold. That's why we went to bed early and took a break from blogging. We slept...

As warned yesterday, the alarm clock rang before 5 o'clock. I didn't even need it because I kept waking up. I didn't want to oversleep at all! The kangaroos come to...

16-25 September 2019 One day, just as my break was ending, I was still standing on the veranda in the backyard when suddenly my colleague came from behind and started screaming...

Broome

After saying goodbye to Carlin and Bastian on Day 14 in the morning, we hit the road again. First, we made a small detour to see some of the famous Big Things. This detour also...

Saturday 20.07 4:00 am: And the Groundhog Day, jet lag, greets me daily, and I am awake for 2 hours 🤪. Yesterday I was on the Great Ocean Road and the 12 Apostles. Originally,...

Alice Springs searches in vain for a city larger than itself in all directions, and with less than 25,000 inhabitants, it is not exactly huge. This placement makes life there...

This is Aussie.

29.05 - 04.06 Well well, after discovering that my entire blog entry was deleted, here once again. To be honest, I was disappointed with the Gold Coast and especially Surfers...

20.05.19 The early bird catches the worm. So we started on Monday morning to the Blue Mountains, first stop Wentworth Falls. With a beautiful view of the blue shimmering hills...

Early in the morning we drive to Triabunna on the east coast of Tasmania to take our ferry to Maria Island. The ferry takes us to the small village of Darlington. The first...

09/02/2019 - 10/02/2019: Day 19-20 Song: Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom! The title already says it all - the best things happen unexpectedly. On the evening of 08/02/2019, we...

Our day in Agnes Water and Bundaberg

31.01.2019 - 02.02.2019 - Day 10-12 Song: Steve Acho - Let it be (acoustic) So my dear ones, here I am again. Solo traveling is starting to leave its marks: it's not always all...

This morning I was picked up by a small sightseeing tour bus, with which we would explore the Great Ocean Road for the next 2 days. The people were all very nice, but...

Today we were already on our feet 20 minutes earlier than yesterday, as announced before, so around 4 o'clock, to be on time for the sunrise at Uluru. When we arrived at the...

Yesterday Ewel didn't tell us what time we had to get up, just that he would make sure we wake up on time. Then Harry Potter's theme song started blaring at 4:20 am and I had to...

After two long, long days on the plane, we finally landed in Melbourne! This time the flight was very nerve-wracking. There was less space, bland food, and long queues for the...

On the second day in Sydney, the opera is of course also on the agenda. To get a better overview of what there is to discover in the city, we took a city tour and a bus tour in...

To return our rental car, we had to drive through the city traffic of Sydney (which every travel guide rightly advises against). After that, we preferred to explore the city...

We got up early in the hope of being able to watch platypuses. Afterwards, we drove to Australia's capital city Canberra to visit the new and old Parliament buildings.

From Thredbo, you can take a hiking trail to Mount Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia, via a chairlift, which is said to offer fantastic views. When we arrived, we...

With Beechworth and Albury, we visited two historic towns - unfortunately, the weather was quite rainy.

During three hikes, we explored Wilson Promontory National Park. In addition to the cottage where we stayed, we saw the koala 'Buttons' sitting in a tree with her baby.

After the obligatory Penguin Parade on Phillip Island, we also watched a pelican feeding and visited a chocolate factory and a former coal mine.

After strolling through the small port town of Strahan, we stopped at a rainforest hiking trail with a waterfall to look out for platypuses. We took a ship along the Gordon Rivers...

In the most famous national park in Tasmania, we not only saw Cradle Mountain, but also many wombats and pademelons, which were very active during the day.