Hello!
I just arrived in Cairns, a town full of life on Australia's East Coast. On Thursday, I went for dinner last time with my new Aussie friend, Jason. I tried a crocodile steak... Not bad, not bad! It was sad to leave beautiful Darwin... But I had no choice. I was going to taste... "the real Australian outback": 4 days without mobile connection, hunderds of kilometers without crossing another car, the toilets are the bush,... It was fun, but stressfull as well.
The first night we slept in the 'Heartbreak Hotel', Australia's most remote hotel. They planned to build it in 9 months, but because it was so difficult to get all the material there, it took them 2.5 years... That is why they called it like that. We traveled through villages of 7 inhabitants, towns of 160 inhabitants,... and the rest was bush, bush and bush! The thing which was shocking, was the many pictures of missing backpackers in those bars where we stopped. Our bus driver told us the story that he, when he was a truck driver before, saw one day a backpacker hitch-hiking. He stopped to go to a bar to get some food. When he wanted to continue his trip, he saw that the backpacker was gone but his backpack was still there. He went to the bar again and asked if someone noticed something strange. Nobody did... A few weeks later, he saw a picture in a bar of the guy 'MISSING'. No worries, I am not going to hitch-hike!!! PROMISED!!!
When we arrived nearer to Cairns, the landscape changed from outback into rain forest. We made walk there and went for a swim. It was a beautiful trip, but I am sooooo tired. Had not much sleep last 3 nights...
Now I will start traveling on Australia's East Coast... Keep you informed!
Sleepy Ruben
I just arrived in Cairns, a town full of life on Australia's East Coast. On Thursday, I went for dinner last time with my new Aussie friend, Jason. I tried a crocodile steak... Not bad, not bad! It was sad to leave beautiful Darwin... But I had no choice. I was going to taste... "the real Australian outback": 4 days without mobile connection, hunderds of kilometers without crossing another car, the toilets are the bush,... It was fun, but stressfull as well.
The first night we slept in the 'Heartbreak Hotel', Australia's most remote hotel. They planned to build it in 9 months, but because it was so difficult to get all the material there, it took them 2.5 years... That is why they called it like that. We traveled through villages of 7 inhabitants, towns of 160 inhabitants,... and the rest was bush, bush and bush! The thing which was shocking, was the many pictures of missing backpackers in those bars where we stopped. Our bus driver told us the story that he, when he was a truck driver before, saw one day a backpacker hitch-hiking. He stopped to go to a bar to get some food. When he wanted to continue his trip, he saw that the backpacker was gone but his backpack was still there. He went to the bar again and asked if someone noticed something strange. Nobody did... A few weeks later, he saw a picture in a bar of the guy 'MISSING'. No worries, I am not going to hitch-hike!!! PROMISED!!!
When we arrived nearer to Cairns, the landscape changed from outback into rain forest. We made walk there and went for a swim. It was a beautiful trip, but I am sooooo tired. Had not much sleep last 3 nights...
Now I will start traveling on Australia's East Coast... Keep you informed!
Sleepy Ruben
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wonderful trip to australia...
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