Huge Lioness

Australia

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April 16th 2010
It was a surprisingly long flight to Sydney from Bangkok, around 9 hours. So we were pretty sleepy when we got there and after the bus back to the hostel we just chilled out and got our bearings. It was a bit of a party hostel and we were in a dorm, but luckily it was a 3 bed dorm and not one of the 10 bed ones! We had two different people staying with us over the 6 nights, our first was an Irish ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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