Wombat

Leg 3 - Australia & New Zealand

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November 8th 2011
Family The three of us head smiling into the third leg of this year’s adventures. Eight in-flight movies and a stopover in Hong Kong take us to Perth, Western Australia, and a taxi zips through warm, midnight air towards our backpacker hostel. The hostel’s reception is littered with red-eyed, slurring revelers who are reaching the end of an all-dayer to celebrate the Rugby World Cup ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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