Blogs from Inn The Tropics, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Well here we are again Borneo seems such a long way away!!! Sorry to all, we have been more than lame with the famous blog so we want to appologise that we havn't updated it! Its been on our mind but we have turned into lazy travellers and just havn't sat down and put pen to paper....im sure we will all bore you enough with our photo's and stories on are return anyway!!! Just wanted to breifly tell you what we have been upto so ill try and keep it short and sweet!! ......We have been back to Southern Thailand hung out with Tina and Knighter for a glorious 2 weeks to which we ate through every thai menu and bronzed are bodies till we baked. Amazing to see them both, so much fun. Our thai ... read more

It is markedly hotter here than NZ. Cairns is an odd city and I can't really describe it. There are bats (large ones) in the trees by the city library and they screech like a mixture of pig/baby cries. There are hundreds of parrots that gather at dusk in the city center. Didgeridoos are only $25! I'm sitting in a "Kwikmart" type of store, paying the cheapest fees I can for internet ($3.50/hr). This is across from a large hotel/casino/rainforest dome, called the Reef. The hotel we're staying at Used to be called Inn The Tropics and I was surprised TravelBlog actually had it in their locations list. It is, by far, the jankiest P.O.S. place I have stayed at. It reminds me of Mexico in a way. The hotel is also trying to be a ... read more

After we left the Steve and Sharon’s in the Daintree we headed to Kym’s sister Gabe’s home in Cairns, Gabe’s hubby Das was on his week off on R&R and their two boys Jacob and Daniel opened their home to us. Cairns was very hot and consequently we spent time recovering from a couple of thirst quenching sessions lounging in deliciously cool aircon - what a treat!! In the days we spent in Cairns Gabe and Das showed us to a couple of freshwater swimming holes, and we all went up the into the hills behind Cairns for a day at the market town of Kuranda. There are several market places there, along with the Australian Venom zoo and a butterfly sanctuary. We did the tour of the venom zoo which had tanks of lots of ... read more

Nick and I arrived in Cairns yesterday at 9:00am on a Qantas flight. Getting off of the aircraft we immediately noticed the intense humidity, Cairns is known as one of the most humid places in Australia. At 9:00am it was already 30C and we drenched with sweat before we could even take our shirts off. We were picked up from the airport and shuttled to our hostel which is called NJoy. It is pretty nice and has a swimming pool and pool table among other things. At $35.00 dollars a night for a room with a fridge, air conditioning (everything in Australia has air conditioning), two beds and a shower...pretty good deal considering we only spend time in the room when we sleep. At 12:00pm we were picked up from the hostel by Cairns Sky Diving ... read more

Heyyy! we're finally here after world's longest flight but we survived! it's 8:30am here and we are awake already after going to bed at 5am! Our first official night out in Cairns! it's about 29degrees and very humid and keeps having random outbursts of rain! apparently its our fault and we brought it from england! Our hostels really cute and yes our room is already a tip but we have an excuse, we do have a wardrobe OR a shelf Or anything, just a hook and 2 beds! We're off to get a tan 2day, we spent yesterday doing grown up mature things like our bank accounts and ozzy fone numbers: mine isss: 0061419034788 emilyys: 0061458101657 Thats with the oz area code! it will cost you about 40p to text us so keep to e-mails mostly ... read more