Well we officailly arrived in Australia about 4am. However we landed in Darwin! Unfortunately we didn't find out that our flight had a stop, between Singapore and Cairns, until we got to Singapore airport! We stayed in Darwin for about an hour and got to see lots of interesting things inside the one departure lounge we were led into! So about 7.30am we arrived at Cairns. We were picked up by our hostel, Calypso Inn, and taken there to check in. Here we met Budda! He is one of the workers at Calypso and basically knows eveything about Eastern Australia. Within an hour he had planned our first week and a half in oz! Once we had sorted out our plans and had a walk around the city centre, we realised that we hadn't actually slept
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