Blogs from Barrington Tops, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

The start of my Oz Experience! Started yesterday 6:30am, hopped in the bus and listened to our tour guide talk about everything we’re going to do. Sounds like this is going to be a wicked trip. But it could very well get costly, I just paid $105 for one night food/stay/activities; but it was so very worth it. The group is awesome and the place we stayed is super cool. It’s remade to look like a mining village and the activities included a choice of night kayaking/horseback riding/Abseiling (going down a cliff on a rope)/mountain biking. I chose Night kayaking and biking. After a free lunch, a guy from Jersey (UK) named Chris and I headed Mountain biking which was said to be quite extreme. After a 20 min bus ride we were at the start ... read more

Right then, i left Sydney on the Oz experience bus a small bus that is designed for backpackers travelling Australia. It goes all the way up the coast but i was only booked on it until Byron Bay (just south of the New South Wales-Queensland border) which meant three days. In addition to be transported up the coast and securing accommodation the Oz experience also organises activities for backpackers to do. On this occasion the main focus (for 2 of the three days anyway) was surfing. The other day was based at a retreat in Barrington, a place that truly was in the middle of nowhere. Recent events had left me not in the right frame of mind by the time the tour started, but by the time we reached Barrington i felt better and began ... read more