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Hi all,
As promised here is the summary of our 12 days journey from Melbourne to Alice Springs .
Here is a summary of the few facts we discovered in this journey : The story below is not meant for ones with bad heart
1. Australia is huge .
2. The roads never ends .
3. Even in the Autumn, the Australian desert is very hot .
4. Meat (Beef and lamb) are very cheap .
5. Beer is very cheep (If you buy it in 24 packs) .
6. Did we mention that this country is Huge ?
During this lag we drove
3800 KM (During 12 days) and been in some of the most interesting places in this land so here it's starts :
After returning from Tasi we spent 2 extra days at Rafi & Yona . We took a day off during our vacation and went to the Imax to see spider man 3 . It was one of the nicesct days we had - we defiantly needed to relax a bit .
On Thursday we left Melbourne towards the great ocean road . An important note is that
we got Upgrade in our car (It's so nice to hear to words - You've been upgraded ...) so we had even bigger camper van (with Toilets and shower) . The Great Ocean Road (Will you the term GOR from now on) was quite disappointing, only a small part of the road is next to the ocean and it has some annoying cities on it .
On the way to Adelaide we stopped at the Grempains national park . We had a great time there, We walked to the pinnacle (which is a terrace that looks at the valley below) and drove through some other sightseeing places which was really great .
From there we continued to Adelaide . Lucky for us when arrived to the city we understood 3 things - There are works for tram in the main street, There was a trucks demonstration (which blocked most of the other streets) and that we are driving with the worst car for this city . Eventually we went to the Caravan park outside the city and used the bus .
On the other day we went to Barrosa Valley , Even though we had some rain
it was one of the best days we had . we visited only 2 wineries but on the first the pured 4 full glasses and on the second only 1/4 of a glass but 8 times . We tasted great wines and had a really fun day .
Afterwards we left Adelaide towards Flinders Rangers (which is of course another national park) . We had 2 nice walks there (the second we think, Is the longest on we had so far with steep climb to St. Mary's peak - It was awesome !) . We really needed to stretch the legs before the "Driving safari" to the Rock .
After that we started the long journey to Uluro , We had 1000 Km from the Flinders to there . On the way we stopped at Cobber Peddy which is one of the biggest places where Opal is being dug . The town is basically a huge mine with a few buildings inside . Most of the people live underground, We didn't sleep underground but we had a very nice tour in one of the mines at the night we spent there .
Our next stop was the
Rock - Uluro . The rock is a giant stands in the middle of nowhere . It's a sacred place for the aborigines but we think the it's biggest attraction is the colors of it in the sunset . Like all other tourists we stood there and tried to picture it in different time - It was quite boring, but as you can see from the pictures below - it's surroundings where much more interesting . Before the sunset we went to a hike near by at the Olga's . The hike was nice but we has Zillion of flies with us which made it ... An Experience .
That's the story, We arrived today to Alice Springs and we're planning to take a bus to Darwin Tomorrow .
Hope that you all has as much fun as we do .
Alligators here we come !
Chen & Elad
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noga
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we miss u darlings
dear sis and Elad! we r very happy to read and see u r having such a great time. I was thinking about u on Eitan and Hadas's wedding (i gave them your present), it was so near the Achuza, and I knew u would have a great time as we did. Chen, Hagit must have told u bout her new boyfriend - I hope it is still going on and that it will work out well this time. We have been very busy lately and we r going to Eilat for 4 days next week. Take care' Love Noga and co.