Day 1 Sydney Australia
We are booked at the Swisshotel for three nights. Location is perfect to walk everywhere.
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The highlight has to be the Opera House.
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General Post Office
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Day 2 Sydney
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Bondi Beach
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Day 3 Blue Mountains and Botanical Gardens
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Day 4 Sydney to Cairns
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Day 5 Great Barrier Reef
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Day 6 Train and Skyrail and Kangaroos
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Day 7 Cairns to Alice Springs
Day 8 Alice Springs to Ayer's Rock
Kata Tjuta
Fly nets are a God send.
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MARCH
Uluru
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Day 9 Sounds of Silence dinner
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Driving the Outback
Day 10 Ayer's Rock to Coober Pedy
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Desert Cave Hotel
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Day 11 Coober Pedy
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Day 12 Coober Pedy to William Creek
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Day 13 William Creek to Parachilna
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Day 14 Parachilna to Wilpena Pound
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Day 15 Wilpena Pound to Adelaide
We start our morning drive with a close encounter!
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Day 16 Kangaroo Island
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Day 17 Barossa Valley
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GOLD COAST DRIVE
Day 18 Adelaide to Penola
Our home for one night Merlot Cottage
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Day 19 Penola to Port Fairy
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Day 20 Port Fairy to Apollo Bay
Flagstaff
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Twelve Apostles
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Day 21 Apollo Bay to Melbourne
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Day 22 Melbourne
We are lucky to have our own local tour guides, Linds and Annie whom we met on the Mekong cruise.
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Dinner on a vintage streetcar.
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Wow, that was one of our lifetime trips. It was fun, reviewing, mate.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a great trip!
ReplyDeleteBarossa Valley, oh, my - in Hahndorf was a café with the portrait of author Wilhelm Busch.
He lived 8 km from where I grew up. That was not the Australia I had in mind...
Hmmm, too early for a beer over here.
Great pics, thank you, I feel warmed up a bit :-)