Do
- expect to pay more than you planned,
Australia isn't very cheap;
- stay in YHA hostels: clean rooms, friendly staff, great
place to meet people, ok
- price and they can
help with transportation, tours and information. Of course
one - is better than the other
but we especially recommend Grampians YHA Eco-Hostel -
with kangaroos in the backyard (www.yha.com.au);
- cook your own dinners, nice way to save some money;
- take buses, the system is very good;
- rent a car if you can for some special places, you will
see more (e.g. Great Ocean - Road,
Barossa Valley, Litchfield National Park, Kakadu National
Park);
- get a tan at the beaches of Whitsunday Island, Byron Bay,
Bondi, Manly, St Kilda - or
Glenelg;
- go diving or get your licence at the Great Barrier Reef
before it's gone!
- visit cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane;
- spend a day or 2 in Canberra if you're into history (Australian
War Memorial) or - - politics
(Parliament House);
- see koalas (Koala Conservation Centre) and penguins (Penguin
Parade) at Phillip - Island;
- make a 7 to 10 day non-luxurious tour through the Outback
(see Flinders Ranges, - Coober
Pedy, Uluru, the Olgas and Kings Canyon) and sleep under
the stars
- (www.campwild.com.au);
- travel by train, we took the Ghan from Alice Springs to
Darwin. It seems long, 24 - hours
in a train, but it's a nice trip (www.gsr.com.au).
Don't
-
rush Australia, it's a wonderful but huge country, better
make choices and come
- back, we still
want to visit Western Australia and Tasmania;
- forget your designated driver for visiting Barossa Valley,
you can 'taste' more
- wine!
- visit Northern Australia in the rainy season if you want
to see some crocodiles
- and don't like high humidity;
- eat too much chocolate at Haigh's Chocolate Factory
- (www.haighschocolates.com.au)in
Adelaide ;
- underestimate distances, get fuel in advance (we barely
made it, with only 0.25
- liters left, to Halls Gap
from Melbourne);
- feed the dingos at Fraser Island.
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