Travelogues Northern Territory

After only 2 1/2 hours flight we reached Darwin, in Australia it was already 5 o'clock in the morning. We spent some time at the airport until 7 o'clock when we took a taxi to...

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We picked up the Land Cruiser this morning and received an instruction on 4-WD driving and how to set up the roof tent. Then we started, driving on the left side, bought...

Everything at the camp was wet, red, and muddy the next morning, and it keeps raining. No fire, no hot water, no tea, no coffee. Pack everything up, wet and dirty as everything...

We traveled from Darwin to Adelaide on the Ghan. Our first stop was Katherine, where we visited a canyon landscape in a national park.

In the morning we reached Ayers Rock / Uluru, we could already see this huge rock from the road kilometers before. We bought a 1-3 day visitor ticket for $50. Then we drove to...

The Uluru (Ayers Rock) is much bigger than I imagined. The base walk is 9 km long. This is the sanctuary for the indigenous tribes around Uluru. For tribes in other areas of...

Somehow this vacation is turning into an early morning number... the alarm clock rang shortly after 05:00 a.m., the taxi was supposedly ordered for 06:30 a.m. (supposedly...

07.10.2019 Should have been picked up at 08:30, but the Chinese woman was late. At least Lena was on time with her car. However, that didn't help much, as we still had to split...

04.+05.08.2019 04.08.2019 Today was the farewell of Jana. She was picked up in the evening by the family where she will be taking care of the children. So she packed her...

07/28/2019 At 08:30 Jana's alarm clock rang. We wanted to have enough time in the morning to rearrange our things and have breakfast. After checking out, we lay in the hammock...

6:00 a.m. we will be picked up on time by the Australian Rowen in the 4WD bus for our Outback Safari. We will drive 220 km straight ahead, then turn right and drive another 230...

The last night on the padded board is done. I slept badly, everything hurt when I turned, Carsten, on the other hand, slept really well. But now it's over. 2 days in the hotel...

Ayers Rock: 'Back to the basics': Under this motto, our 3-day WayOutback tour to Uluru (Ayers Rock), one of the two landmarks of Australia in the 'Red Centre', took place. Here...

At 7:57 am, we continued our journey towards Darwin. We only stopped for bathroom breaks, otherwise we drove until 3 pm. Then came the long-awaited stop at the Materanka Pools....

Alice Springs was the starting point for me on a tour into the Outback. The place in the Red Center of Australia is very small and it was the first time I saw so many...

Today's itinerary started late compared to the last two days. We left at 8 a.m. towards West MacDonell National Park. At the first stop, I spotted Black-footed Rock Wallabies in...

14th October 2019 https://youtu.be/NEfYOJoAL7g Today, we visited the Kings Canyon. After arriving there, we had lunch, accompanied by thousands of flies around us. Most of...

10.10.2019 In the small town of Tennant Creek, we refueled. Due to a lack of seating, we eventually sat on bleachers at a public stadium. We arrived relatively late at the...

At 6:50 a.m., the shuttle takes us from the hotel to the airport. Check-in is smooth for domestic flights. Flight duration is 2 hours, with some clouds but otherwise good...

Addendum 30.03.-01.04. There really isn't much to say about these three days. We left at the latest at 10 am and arrived at the earliest at 6 pm. One difference compared to...

At noon today, we decided together with Vanessa to fly to Bali for 1 week. We managed to get cheap last minute tickets and now, 5 hours later, we are sitting at the airport in...

After a lot of hustle and bustle, I arrived in tropical Darwin late in the evening yesterday. What a difference in humidity compared to the past few days. Everything feels...

Now I have arrived in Alice Springs. Yesterday we drove to Kings Canyon after experiencing Uluru at sunrise and taking a walk. The long drive to Kings Canyon was worth it. It is...

Weather Today I went to the red center, where I arrived after a 3.5-hour flight. Then in the early afternoon, I checked into my room at Uluru-Kata National Park. After a little...

Slowly but surely, after weeks in which we were stuck together in a small car, we really started to get on each other's nerves and we fought more and more often. But we were...

We will have winter soon in Australia, called 'dry season' here in Darwin. The wind blows a little more every day and it's getting cooler at night. During the day we have 30 -...

Today we drove about 15 minutes out of town to Lake Alexander. A great park with a lake for swimming, children's playground and free BBQ facilities. We relaxed there in the...

Arriving in Darwin, the climate seemed surprisingly pleasant to us. As mentioned, we were really afraid that we wouldn't be able to cope here and just wanted to move on. We...

Today was marked by another change of location. We traveled 250 km back to Darwin from Jabiru. Along the way, we made a short photo stop at towering termite mounds. We also made...