Archive for the ‘Australia’

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    The Gold Coast is the Golden Opportunity for a Seaside Holiday
    Stretching some 40 km from the Main Beach to Coolangatta in South Queensland, the Gold Coast is famous for its wonderful white sandy beaches and its outstanding surf. The name has retained its true meaning for its tourists and entrepreneurs as well. It’s truly a golden shoreline for any kind of tourist activity that can be done on the sea – surfing, kayakaying, trekking, boating, skiing, theme parks, restaurants, hotels, discos, whale watching, and amusement parks, water parks, wild life parks, tiger moth joy rides, aerobatic flights, scenic flights, sky diving, bungee jumping, and scuba diving. Ah! That’s quite interesting list of fun and frolic! The Surfers Paradise is the place to be first on your visiting list from where many one-day trips are organized to the national parks, trekking trails, rainforest excursion, and lookout  [...]
    Posted at March 3rd, 2010
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    Sydney – The Most Frequently Visited Australian City despite being the Most Expensive
    Considered as the largest and most famous city, Sydney in Australia is full of activities, sight seeing, and leisure actions. Ranked as among the top 30 costly cities on the planet, the city’s visit is the costliest affair in Australia, but is worth it. There are excellent zoos, boating, beaches, parks, museums, botanical gardens, cultural edifices, and scenic sites along with much more to go – such that a week time will also not be enough to explore the great city. Sydney Australia Tourist Attractions Australian Museum: Located on the 6-8 College Street, you will feel quite lucky of you visit this one of the six best natural history museums on the planet. Stroll and study the collections related to the Aboriginal Australia, customs of the human life cycle, and mammals along with several probing and interesting items. It is  [...]
    Posted at March 3rd, 2010
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    Melbourne is the Most Livable City on Earth
    Melbourne is surely to make you feel at home even while being on a foreign territory. That’s the magic and charm of this cosmopolitan city, cultural capital, and sports capital of Australia. Well, just by stating these lines, I am sure you are convinced that there is something over here for each visitor irrespective of the mood or age. A cultural fan will love the bountiful cultural festivals among which the famous is the annual comedy festival, arts, dances, galleries, and museums. Now, these are so featured that every visitor would admire it. Further, you will be stunned to here that it is the third-largest Greek city and the largest Italian city in the world along with a pulsating blend of Chinese, Vietnamese, Jewish, and Arabic people. For a sport lover, the city is commented with Aussie Rules (AFL) Football, the Australian  [...]
    Posted at March 2nd, 2010
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    Bondi Beach – Spend Holidays here
    Bondi Beach is the beach lover’s dreamland at seven km from Sydney in the suburb of Bondi. The name of the beach is an Aboriginal word that stands for the sound of breaking waves. Being nearly 1 km long, the beach’s width is 50 m at north and 100 m at the south making it the widest one in Sydney. If you go for a coastal walk, you will come across some Aboriginal Rock carvings on the north at Ben Buckler and south at McKenzies Beach. Bondi Beach Tourist Attraction Marine Discovery Centre: Located at Bondi Pavilion Queen Elizabeth Drive, this centre is where you can experience the underwater Bondi marine life. The highlight here is the view of the real baby sharks residing in a large hidden aquarium. Billabong Store: Located at 75a Gould Street, this is among the symbolic surf brands in the continent offering the items of modern  [...]
    Posted at March 1st, 2010
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    Soaking in the World of Calm Bushland, Captivating Sceneries, and legendary Aboriginal Past
    This is the Namadgi National Park located at just 40 km southwest of Canberra and the only one of its kind in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Occupying 46 percent of the ACT since 1984, it is so named after the Namadgi Mountains here wherein Namadgi is an aboriginal word. The Namadgi National Park provides protection to a part of the northernmost Australian Alps holding magnificent granite mountains. The northwest area of the Namadgi National Park is the west of the Canberra’s suburbs and joins the Brindabella National Park, while its southwest meets the Kosciuszko National Park along with the Bimberi and Scabby Range Nature Reserves. The water catchment area here is very important as it meets 85 percent of water requirements of Canberra. The Namadgi Visitor Centre located close to the village of Tharwa is a good place  [...]
    Posted at February 26th, 2010
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    This is the National Park of Naturally Towering Rocks and Preserved Wildlife
    Located at a distance of 1431 km south of Darwin and 440 km south-west of Alice Springs, this is the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Perched along the Stuart and Lasseter Highways in the Northern Territory of Australia, the park occupies 1398 sq. km. including the major tourist attractions – Uluru/Ayers Rock, a massive rock and Kata Tjuta (many heads)/Mount Olga, an array of 36 rock formations at 36 km west of Uluru. The famous sandstone Uluru is 348 m in height, while the Kata Tjuta’s rock domes has a history of 500 million years. According to the belief of the aboriginals, the turtlespirit got transformed into the Ayers rock. The domed rocks comprises of crevasses and conglomerate that is a sedimentary rock of cobbles and boulders of granite and basalt. Despite the fact of dry region,  [...]
    Posted at February 26th, 2010
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    Darwin is the Base Point to Many Trips
    Darwin is the capital of the Northern Territory exhibiting two different facets – features Asian aspects along with the Australian vibes. The city is inhabited with folks belonging to all kinds of ethnic groups. After being damaged completely by the Tracy cyclone in 1974, it has greatly emerged into contemporary vibrant town. Many travelers come to Darwin not only to explore its historic and natural wonders, but also to take up expeditions to the nearby nature parks, such as the Litchfield National Park, the Katherine Gorge, and Kakadu National Park. Talking about the highlights in the cities, there is a long list including museums, harbor, and beaches whose visit needs some couple of days. Darwin Australia Tourist Attractions Territory Wildlife Park: This park depicts the relation between the local plants and animals through  [...]
    Posted at February 25th, 2010
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    Alice Springs – Is it Referring to the Young Girl Alice in Wonderland?
    Well, Alice Springs is the name of a beautiful holiday destination in Australia. It is so named after the wife of Charles Todd, Alice Todd, both of them came here in 1865 to establish a first telegraph line. During the expedition of the area, they saw a river containing a waterhole named Alice Springs where a telegraph repeater station was set. So, this is the real story behind the town. Speaking more about its past fame, this is the place where Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ showed her great dance and you can find the Royal Flying Doctors Base to provide medical service to distant places. It won’t be at all surprising to know that the town is also known as the Red Centre due to its central area and close by presence of red rocks and red-sand desert area. For the tourists, the town is a good place to stay, relax, marvel, and  [...]
    Posted at February 25th, 2010
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    Canberra is the Great Destination to Discover and Relax
    Canberra, Australia’s federal capital, is the amalgam of five town centres located in the region’s valleys namely, Central Canberra, Belconnen, Woden, Tuggeranong, and Queanbeyan (really in New South Wales). From the point of view of tourism, only Central Canberra is primarily interesting area. Founded as a part of Australia’s federation in 1901, the city holds the national parliament, federal government departments, the High Court of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, and many important buildings. As compared to other Australian capital cities, Canberra is quite different from the point of view that it is young one since 1927 and its planning for development barred the existing buildings that are more than 15 stories high or on circling hilltops. Do not include in you list of sights of just glancing and moving  [...]
    Posted at February 24th, 2010
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    All that You Dream for a Holiday is what Brisbane Offers
    Brisbane, the third largest city of Australia, is situated between the subtropics of South-East Queensland. Regarded as Australia’s northern capital on the Pacific Frame, it has been an important destination of international events such as the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Expo 88. Today, it is a vibrant city with many interesting areas such as busy streets and parks along the river. Its location between the twisting turns of the river facilitates discovery on foot. Brisbane Australia Tourist Attractions South Bank Parkland: It was precisely here that the WorldExpo’88 was held. Famous among the locals and visitors, it offers a wonderful riverside walk, an artificial lagoon, restaurants, shops, and arts and crafts market. All the year around, festivals and firework displays commonly take place. Herein, do visit the Queensland  [...]
    Posted at February 22nd, 2010
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