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Die nächsten Tage werden wir im Outback verbringen und daher über die Weihnachtsfeiertage voraussichtlich weder Zugang zum Internet haben noch die Möglichkeit zu telefonieren. Aus diesem Grund möchten wir Euch allen bereits heute ein frohes Weihnachtsfest wünschen. Trotz der heißen Temperaturen, die uns eine ganz andere Adventszeit beschert haben, und der Entfernung, die zwischen uns liegt, werden wir in Gedanken ganz nahe bei unseren Familien und Freunden sein. Anstatt „weißer“ Weihnachten (Toi Toi Toi) sind dieses Jahr für uns „rote“ Weihnachten angesagt. [View Full Entry]

Loveboat - Australian Connection | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 33 Views | [diary=462077]


Nachdem wir unseren treuen Weggefährten an der Ostküste, unser Spaceship, mit etwas Wehmut zurückgegeben haben, ging es mit dem Flieger nach Alice Springs (dem Tor zum „roten Zentrum“ - Outback). Als wir aus dem Flugzeug ausgestiegen sind, liefen wir gegen eine Hitzewand. Der Weg vom Flugzeug zum recht übersichtlichen Flughafengebäude bei 44 Grad im Schatten war bereits so anstrengend, dass der Respekt vor den kommenden Tagen im Outback weiter wuchs. Im Hotel angekommen haben wir uns als erstes im kühlen Pool abgekühlt und anschließend in Vorfreude auf die vor uns liegenden Stra [View Full Entry]

Loveboat - Australian Connection | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 28th 2009 | 16 Views | [diary=463266]

Kata Tjuta II
Kings Canyon III
Kata Tjuta III - Valley of the Winds

Hello my beautiful little people! So we last left off having finished up Kangaroo Island, and since then we dropped back in to Adelaide (after a spectacular lightning storm on the way in) before hopping on a plane up to Alice Springs. Domestic flights are a pretty strange experience, but Qantas are pretty good, and provide carrot cake and a cup of tea mid way on the hour and forty minutes up to Alice. I don't understand why Alice is still there, it is where it is because they needed a telegraph repeater station half way between Adelaide and Darwin so [View Full Entry]

977 - David Woodbridge | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 23rd 2009 | 36 Views | [diary=462109]

very straight roads in the northern territories
King's Canyon rocks
Katie by a crazy tree, after a huge climb, mid-day in the desert

By Susanti
December 11th 2009
Going to Cairns Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru
Hello, It's another morning here. Downside of adventure travel is that you have to get up early to check out before 10am and you have to think ahead, which isn't my best quality. I've also noticed that I am having my ups and downs. A part of me wants to go home, and another part of me is trying to keep up the good thoughts. I am surrounded by people who are not really my type. Most are very young and still into that " I want to get drunk only" mode. I am going to be bored today, because I [View Full Entry]

Susanti - Susanti Is My Name | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 10th 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=459630]

The Olgas 2
The Olgas 3

Okay, now I didn't want to get online, because of the costs but since I have to check in online for my flight, I might as well add a blog on here. There are a few things that I need to get off my chest so here it comes (I'll start with the bad stuff). I'm stuck in a room with three guys, I came in late after the sounds of silence so I couldn't see a thing. My flashlight was somewhere in my bag, and it was too difficult to find it. Luckily I had put my PJ somewhere on [View Full Entry]

Susanti - Susanti Is My Name | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 9th 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=459393]

Sunset at Uluru
Uluru Sunset 2
Uluru Sunset 3

Wow, so here I am at Ayers Rock Resort...I had an excellent flight, I seem to be in luck with my seats, because so far I haven't had anyone sitting right next to me. The Internet here is more expensive 1 AUD for every 6 minutes. I have to see how I can book a flight back, since there is no printer attached to this computer. It may be a hickup, but I'm sure I'll figure it out somehow. I've decided to this incredible expensive tour of which I felt I can't miss out. I will be doing the Sounds of [View Full Entry]

Susanti - Susanti Is My Name | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 9th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=459239]


On day six we were up early as we had another day with lots of kilometres to cover. The morning was spent dozing in the bruck, stopping occasionally to refuel and stretch our legs before we stopped at a service station for some lunch. There was a nice patch of grass under some trees for us to sit while we munched away on our sandwiches. The service station was also home to a variety of bush animals that had been rescued from the wild after various accidents or misfortune. In an enclosure a orphaned and blind baby kangaroo shared his home [View Full Entry]

leeandamy - Lee Garrett | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 22nd 2009 | 23 Views | [diary=458731]

Sunset
The Beatles visit Uluru!
Watching the sun set at Uluru

(Day 578 on the road) "The heart. The soul. The centre." I am not quite convinced about the heart and the soul bit of Alice Springs' slogan that greeted me as I stepped off the train, but the part about the centre is certainly true: The city is located a very long way from anywhere else and sits approximately in the geographical centre of Australia. And with only 27.000 people living here, it must be one of the smallest cities that can claim that most people worldwide have probably heard of it. But of course it owes its fame entirely to [View Full Entry]

LivingTheDream - Ben Beiske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 12th 2009 | 324 Views | [diary=450173]

The sheer and steep climb up Ayers Rock
On top of Ayers Rock
Approaching the Olgas

After crossing the Tropic of Capricorn for the third time on our road trip we headed down to Alice Springs. On arriving into the town we were somewhat dismayed to see so many drunks on the streets and the whole town seemed to have a real air of misery around it- not helped by the fact that the weather seemed to have taken a turn for the worse and was now very cloudy and gloomy. After a quick pit stop we headed out of Alice Springs towards the homestead at Curtain Springs where we had decided to spend the night. Once [View Full Entry]

globetrotters2009 - Sharon & John | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2009 | 42 Views | [diary=447068]

Uluru at sunset
Uluru at sunset
Uluru at sunset

So the next morning we were supposed to go the sunrise viewing of Uluru but the clouds were so low there was no point. Doc said he had never seen cloud on Uluru, so we were seeing something a bit different! We went to the base of Uluru to do the base walk all the way round. We started at 6.45am and completed the 9km walk. It doesn't look that big but it is! You can see how low the cloud was from my photo's - most of the rock was covered! But it had mostly lifted by the time we [View Full Entry]

ames123 - Amy Hynd | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 4th 2009 | 41 Views | [diary=441911]

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