The prang

Australia - Oct 2007

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October 4th 2007
I touched down in Perth still laden with a boxed up bike which I had unsuccessfully and lacklustrely tried to offload in Hong Kong. It would be a further hour or so before I was allowed past immigration and officially entered Australian soil. Australian customs are particularly fussy about food, fauna and foreign soil (aka dirt) being brought into their country. Add to that my uncanny knack of bei ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more