After Darwin, I headed back to the airport to catch a flight to Cairns, to begin my journey down the East Coast of Oz. This is the most popular travelling route for backpackers visiting Oz. Arriving in Cairns airport, I decided to head to the information board to source some accomodation. I was, of course looking for the cheapest, and found a central hostel for $15 per night (around 6 pounds). On contacting the hostel I folund out that this was only the cost per night if you were staying for longer than a week......at this point it sounded fair too [View Full Entry]

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Well I've now arrived in Darwin, after traveling for an uncertain amount of hours due to the fact that I've had to change my watch twice to correspond with the changing time zones. Finally got to my hostel at 5.30am, so glad that i had made a booking a few days earlier and incredibly pleased that they were not to busy which meant i could head straight for my bed! Upon waking up around lunchtime i found that this hostel has a pool,i'd some hoe missed that this morning when I walked straight past it but what a great surprise when [View Full Entry]

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So I start off this part of my blog still on the elephants, still a bit terrified! The elephants arrive at the 'elephant station' (every good mountain has one!!) and we again had a tricky time getting off, I'm very glad we were the first to get off as at that point no one had decided to make any recordings of my very unlady like dismount! On arrival at the 2nd village half of our group decided to run straight for the river, I decided to hold back and see everyone’s reactions when they got in!! As you can imagine I [View Full Entry]

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Hi!! We've finally found some time to drag ourseleves away from the bars and go in search of a internet cafe to update you all on our experiences over the last week. We landed in Bangkok last Wednesday at around 8pm, after 20 hours of travelling! Although we did expect a change in temperature the immense heat still hit us when we walked out of the airport! On arrival at our hotel we were met by Chi, who has been our tour leader for the last week, he gave us details of the week ahead and gave us the fantastic news [View Full Entry]

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