My wife and I newly married in an old Dodge ute visited then Ayres Rock in November 1974. The road in was a corrugated dirt road about 150 miles (now 268
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I traveled to Alice Springs in 1985, rented a car and drove to Uluru to climb Ayers Rock. I, back then was a novice traveler, however, I did my research
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I'm travelling for the 4th time to Australia next year with two friends, we did a lot of road trips but never to the desert. We want to go to the center
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Last August I took a break from my business trip to Alice Springs, and a (long) bus tour to Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park for a few nights camping in
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I have climbed Uluru after careful consideration. I respect the local aboriginal culture and they are the traditional owners. I believe ultimately God
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I was one of four people to walk across Australia as part of Australia's Bicentennial in 1988. March 1st - September 14th. Sharks Bay to Byron Bay. The
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I will be traveling in June with two teenagers and I am interested in either going to Ayres Rock or Kakadu. Which area would be better if I only have time
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Just looking for a few tips on how much I should budget for a 10-14 day trip to Alice Springs & Uluru/Kata Tjuta. We (my boyfriend and I) are planning
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Read all you can before you go as I am not going to tell a granny how to suck eggs. Make sure you ingest the advice and be wise to the risks, it gets mighty
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This page is a bit unusual in that it isn't for travellers. Or rather I should say not for tourists, because for long term travellers it may well be very interesting! In the section on this websi...
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HOW FAR CAN YOU GO IN A DAY? When Bob Sargeant and his partner Dawn Wiles became fed up with the craziness of modern day living away back in 1987, they
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A couple of years ago I posted a story on here about my trip up the Oodnadatta on an XR400. Since then I moved up and got a bigger bike and done a few
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(Has appeared in Top Tourist Caravan Parks Newsletter -Feb 2012) It was the first evening on our first ever visit to the town of Broken Hill while on
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My husband is being posted to Darwin for work and we have decided to drive there. We are going in January and I know this is the wet season. My question
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We are seven tourists who were at Cooper Creek the day the ABC helicopter went down and have written a blog about our travels through the outback and have
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I climbed the rock back in 1987 and it was a soulful experience. All Australians have the right to climb and they should. I felt more in tune with our
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We went on an organized Kakadu tour, camping for 3 nights, that we accidently signed up for, thinking it was a different tour. We aren't campers! My wifes
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I was first drawn to the rock as a 20 year old man. I some how knew that I would always go there. That I would go to the highest point of it. That I
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We recently returned from a trip around the Northern Territory and I thought I would share my story as we were there at the end of the wet season, but
I've read quite a lot about whether and why to climb Urulu or not. There are a lot of reasons why conscientious people decide to climb it and why others
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Outback SA, June 2009 My 1570 km gravel surf on a 1998 XR400 (gearing 15/42, 14.4 lt tank, saddle bags and a tunnel bag + 5 lt spare fuel on board) from
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What is right and what's wrong? Every decent person would know the answer, those who don't, well you might have missed something important in your life.
This are the lillies down south in Western Australia where the caves are! I think it's around Dunsborough. There are thousands everywhere, yet they pay
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Independent advice on cheap budget accommodation in Australia: what to expect and how to find and book the best value youth and backpacker hostels in Australia.
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I thought long and hard about whether to climb Uluru or not. My husband and I did the walk around first and were very careful not to photograph the sacred
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We have a 2004 Prado using both LPG and petrol. We plan to travel Australia for a few years pulling a 21 ft Jayco van. Will I need to carry jerry cans
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I own a pub in Northern NSW and hired two English speaking French girls who applied for a position I had advertised in the local paper. I had always wondered
We are going to Katherine Gorge next week, but unfortunately because of the delayed dry season, the overnight canoe trip is off limits. I still want
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Back in 2009 Dutch travel photographer Thijs Heslenfeld contacted me to let me know that his latest photo book is due out soon. Hot - Life in the Australian
Did you know that you can easily get discounts of up to 50 percent on your travel in Australia? And it's easy! You just get yourself the...
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We are looking to travel from Sydney to Cairns, down to Mt. Isa via Atherton over a period of approx 2 months, leaving Sydney in early March. We are
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I had nearly given up, but after 15 years of trial and error, I finally found a totally natural jet lag remedy that actually works...
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I am currently in Perth. I plan to leave Perth, drive the west coast to Darwin, over to Cairns then down to Brisbane, Sydney over to Ayers Rock and
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My family and I are planning to visit Central Australia some time in December and January. But I worry about the temperature. Is it really very hot
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Hello, just thought I'd share our trip report on the Mereenie Loop Road from Kings Canyon to Alice Springs for other travellers. Firstly there are
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I am going (with my boyfriend) to be in Kakadu around the 5 December. We wanted to camp because everything is so expensive but you seem to say that it
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What goes through your mind when you wake up in the morning and see a thick orange cloth hanging outside the window of your bedroom? First you pinch
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Ever since I translated a story about an illegal climb of Uluru via Ngaltawata in 1976 - I think - for a mountaineering stories anthology, I wanted to
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A few years ago, I went to Uluru. I was on a very low budget, but I went there, thinking the climb was closed a decade or two before. I was surprised
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In your Working Holiday Visa description it says that You must not make arrangements to travel to Australia until you are advised that your visa has
No, I would't march into a Buddhist temple in shorts and hiking boots because the monks hadn't pressured me not to. But I certainly would do so
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Hi. I'm trying to work out the best way of planning a trip to Kings Canyon and Uluru from Alice Springs . We fly in from Darwin on 16th Sept
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I am planning on leaving Perth in the next 2 weeks and would like to get to Darwin then over to Cairns. I want to go to all of the places in have seen
I'm planning on going to Oz with a friend who will have a working holiday visa but I won't as I've already done that during 1999 / 2000. How easy /
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