Category: Oceania
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The best city (so far)
After several days in the desert wilderness of the Red Center, we jumped on a plane and in three hours landed in the largest city of Australia and Oceania and the capital of the Aussie state New South Wales. Welcome to Sydney! We’re sure all of you know a thing or two about Sydney and…
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In the Red kingdom in the middle
Originally, the next stop of our Australian trip after several days spent in Adelaide should’ve been the western part of the country. We even wanted to skip the Red Center completely as we stupidly thought it’s just that big red rock in the desert and nothing more. However, in the end we were happy to…
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Vineyards, sauerkraut and an army of ‘roos
A short flight from Tasmania got us back to the Aussie’s mainland. We continued our tour in South Australia and for six more nights while based in its capital Adelaide. Originally we expected our stay here to be shorter, however, our local friend Kendal we got to know in New Zealand showed us all that…
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Sassy in Tassie
Just one hour by air south of Melbourne or 240km through the Bass Strait from the Australian mainland, there’s a fairy tale island paradise and one of the six states of Australia – Tasmania. Tassie isn’t just a single island – in fact, it consists of the main island and 334 surrounding smaller islands. Almost…
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Glimpse of Melbourne
After a month spent in the wilderness of New Zealand, our noble (air) stead took us two hours back. We landed in Melbourne – the capital of the Australian state Victoria and the second largest city of Australia with almost a fifth of the whole country’s population calling it home. Some time ago, Melbourne also…
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Among the volcanoes, lakes and waterfalls
After almost 3-weeks-long wilderness exploration on the South Island, we crossed the Cook Strait for the second time and returned to the North Island where this whole trip started! Not counting a one-night stopover in Wellington to celebrate Pepe’s birthday we headed first to Taupo sitting in the middle of the island. We got the…