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Two Weeks in Australia: The Ultimate Itinerary for First-Time Visitors

Two Weeks in Australia: The Ultimate Itinerary for First-Time Visitors

Can you see anything with two weeks in Australia? Hell yeh! Here is the ultimate two-week Australia itinerary. Let me start with the obvious: Australia is HUGE. It’s a country and a continent, almost as big as USA (not including Alaska). Australia’s coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilo[...]

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Road Trips in Australia – All You Need to Know

Best Road Trips in Australia

Whether you’re driving along the stunning coasts or deep into the Outback, these road trips in Australia will be sure to leave you in awe. I've traveled on four wheels all over Australia, from the rugged Top End all the way to Tasmania's east coast, and somewhere between the rural west coast and t[...]

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Skydiving Gold Coast Australia — At 12,000 Feet Above Ground

Skydiving Gold Coast Australia — At 12,000 Feet Above Ground

“Are you ready?” David, my skydive master from Gold Coast Skydive, shouts from behind me amidst the strong winds and the roaring engine. I’m sitting at the ledge of the plane’s opened door, about to jump from 12,000 feet above the ground. Looking down at the ea[...]

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Camping in Australia’s Red Center – Part II: Exploring Kata Tjuta

Camping in Uluru – Part II: Exploring Kata Tjuta

Have you missed Part I of camping in Australia’s Red Center? This is the second part of my story on camping in Uluru. Dawn had come and go. Rising at 5am was well worth it: the sunrise over Uluru and Kata Tjuta proved to be spectacular. After seeing Kata Tjuta from atop the sand dunes, it was no[...]

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Camping in the Red Center – Part I: Uluru and its Aboriginal Roots

Camping in Uluru – Part I: Learning Aboriginal Culture

During our time in Australia, we went camping in Uluru and it was undoubtedly the highlight of our trip. Here’s Part 1 of our camping adventure in the Red Center. Dawn had yet to arrive, but the sounds of the desert had awoken me. I opened my eyes to the sounds of birds chirping and dingoes howli[...]

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Digging Beneath the Surface: Getting to Know the Central Australian Desert

Visiting the Alice Springs Desert Park

Mention Australia’s Red Center, and the vast, red desert immediately comes to mind. When we set off for Australia last October, the desert was one place we really wanted to see and explore. So it was with much excitement when we found out that we didn’t have to venture far to explore the Austral[...]

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Up Close and Personal with Tasmanian Devils

They growl like ferocious bulldogs, snort like pigs, and have the most disturbing screech I've ever heard. They’re strange creatures alright – spotting a stocky and muscular body, clothed in black fur and an incongruous white marking on its chest, point ears and a tail that emits a pungent o[...]

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Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef

Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef

A giant manta ray flaps across the sandbar under the spearmint blue water beneath my feet. A brown-footed booby soars overhead, while an egret swooshes to the water surface and nabs his catch for the day. We’re out on the beach taking a morning stroll, but scenes from the Animal Planet are u[...]

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Driving from Alice Springs to Adelaide

The Australian Outback is a big patch of arid, empty land inhabited by nothing more than a few groups of Aboriginals and wild animals. To see this part of the country, we decided to do a road trip on a campervan along the famous Explorer Way. It's  the only motorway that links Australia’s top en[...]

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Outback Hot Air Ballooning: Seeing Alice Springs From Above

A Hot Air Balloon Flight in Alice Springs

As we rise above the bush, we see the sun’s rays slowly peeking over the horizon. Soon enough it’s blazing above our heads and showering the entire horizon in gold. The bush beneath us takes on a different dimension as the gum trees transform into dark green dots under our feet and rivers slithe[...]

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Australia Red Center in Photos

Australia Red Center in Photos

Hot, dry and harsh, Australia Red Center is extremely inhospitable, and at the same time, intriguing. But as we found out over the past week in Central Australia, it is far from empty and lifeless. Dotted with patches of spinifex and eucalyptus trees, the desert is home to massive sandstone mountain[...]

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