YHA Cairns Esplanade

Starting Backpacking

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January 8th 2007
I have been here for nearly a week now slumming it up in the local youth hostels. They are pretty good actually, much better than I was expecting (at least for 8 squid a night anyway). I thought at first that I'd try and stay in a different hostel every night to find the best one. That flopped and after swapping hostels after the first day, I found one that I like and so have been there since. I ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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