Uluru tour – Day one: Uluru
Day 99 – Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia To go see Uluru, or the big red rock formerly called Ayers Rock, everybody knows, you have to go to Alice Springs. You can then, like me, think that Alice Springs is a few kilometres from Uluru, or even at the foot of the rock. Or you can…
Olive Pink Botanic Garden
Day 97 – Alice Springs, Australia I’m continuing my run of botanic gardens. This one, in Alice Springs, is dedicated to Miss Olive Pink, who campaigned for the conservation of native species (and the respect of Aboriginal rights, but that has less to do directly with the botanic garden). The garden includes the Annie Myers…
Night Bus
Day 96 – Alice Springs, Australia I decided at the last minute to go straight to Alice Springs without stooping at the Devil’s Marbles. I wasn’t sufficiently prepared, I will probably go back (my bus pass allows it), but I will first store my luggage in my hostel here and go with the minimum. Greyhound…
Hot spring
Day 95 – Katherine A few words quickly, as my night bus leaves in a few minutes. I’ll expand tomorrow. Expanding The main attraction of Katherine are the Katherine Gorges, but being something like 20 km away from the city, I wouldn’t be able to go. Instead, there is a walking (and cycling) trail following…
Happy Father’s Day
Day 94 – Katherine, Australia The high point of my day was seeing all the “Father’s Day” signs at the supermarket. I took the Greyhound this morning (arriving 2 hours in advance, I had really nothing better to do) to Katherine. There isn’t much to do in the city itself, which is sprawling, so going…
Fannie Bay and East Point
Day 93 – Darwin, Australia In my travel guide, looking for things to do, I was struck by the “mangrove walk”. I thought the name very promising. It is a walkway going through a mangrove, of course, and advancing into the sea. To get there, however, was not that easy a piece of cake. It…
Botanic Gardens and the MAGNT
Day 92 – Darwin, Australia I had decided to spend the day in the Botanic Gardens. I started by preparing a lunch to take with me, and when I opened the fridge to take a carrot out, I saw that the nice I had put them on was in fact the freezer tray. So I…
Darwin
Day 91 – Darwin, Australia Australia, at least, Darwin, where I landed, has an (un)convenient time difference of an hour and a half with Bali, which itself was 6 hours before France, I’m starting to lose the count of what time is where. Added that my flight was in the worse hours of the night,…
Leaving Asia
Day 90 – Kuta, Indonesia So… 3 months. I’m leaving Asia tonight, my flight is at 1:30 AM, and I’m landing in Darwin, Australia, at around 4:50 AM. Talk about flying early. I’m rather excited. I have nicely emptied my backpack, giving along some things, sending some other things back home since I was sending…
Day at the beach
Day 89 – Kuta, Indonesia I spent most of today at the beach. The tide was high, so what I described yesterday was a low tide. The difference was obvious, with the waves breaking directly by the shore and not far from it. Well, of course some break far from it, but new waves reform…