Imagine you live in a very beautiful home, which is featured in number of interior home décor magazines, and your home is publicized, people give acclamations to it, and it get famous. Feels good, you liked it? Now just imagine those people without your permission keep trespassing your property. And even when you actually say them no, then to they come to stroll and admire the beauty; appreciate it and liking it more. Even the authorities don’t help you? Now does it feel good? Do u still like it? If you can show respect to your home, and don’t like intruders coming in then why not to the beliefs of aboriginals of Australia who have a belief of this place being sacred. Let me tell you from begin… Uluru, second largest single rock in the world, a striking rock monolith, which  [...]

A natural sandstone area that has become a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites is situated in Western Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region. The Purnululu National Park covers an area of 2,397.23 Square Kilometre and is managing by the Department of Environment and Conservation which was established in the year 1987. The closest towns that are situated around are Kununurra from its north and Halls Creek from the south. The name Purnululu is given by the Kija Aboriginal people. It is an area of the Bungle Bungle Range. The meaning of Purnululu is sandstone. This Bungle Bungle Range lies entirely in the park and has a height of about 578 metres above sea level. This place is well-Known for its sandstone domes. The domes have orange and grey bands and are due to the diversity of  [...]

When you stand at the one side of the bank there are many quests that your heart keeps on leaping for. Many times you feel like to take plunge and reach the other side. But those thoughts remain thoughts only. Like when nature created this rift, it was nature only who invented the most notable thing called’ bridge’ which was used to reach the other side of the bank. The fallen logs were the first nature made bridges. Later on there were some Americans who used bamboo poles to cross from one side to another. “Praise the bridge that carried you over.” George Colman The ancient Romans can be considered as the pioneers of constructing the best bridges in the history. But then after the great revolutions that took place in the past got improvised the look of the bridge. With  [...]

With our rucksacks on our backs, and memories that now we are grads, we all headed to Airlie beach. We all here means the class of summer 69 (add more years to it; we were grads of year 2009.) It was me, my dear Jack, Adam and my best friend Ginny. After all it was time to celebrate we are now grads! (It’s a feat that we all achieved and couldn’t believe till we got at our graduation day!) As I was saying (my name is Rose), Airlie Beach is a small town in the Whitsunday region in the Queensland Australia. We had heard so much about it from our fellow students and backpackers that it is a heaven for backpackers and we had saved enough to have the best vacations there. Taking the flight of Virgin blue we reached Proserpine (Whitsunday Airport). We got ourselves into a nice hostel for  [...]

The picturesque terrain of Sydney serves as a commencing point to most of the tourists. However, subsequent to experiencing the rapid lifestyle, suave population, and intricate architecture, most vacationers are bewildered deciding the direction of the journey. They ought to choose between the southern expedition to refined, debonair Melbourne, wild and cool Tasmania. Or moving north toward the sun-drenched sandy coasts, ostentatious townships, and beguiling tropical terrain of Queensland. Usually, people opt for the latter one, gliding through a couple of states comprising 3,000 km toward Cairns, a route that quickly informs them why it is so admired. People flying to other parts of the world or domestically, should reach a bit earlier to acquire an observer seat besides window to witness  [...]

The terrain of Gondwana Rainforest, which was previously known as Central Eastern Rainforest Reserve of Australia, is a made up of 8 dissimilar regional lands spread amid Brisbane and New Castle. Together, they reveal the story of the continent’s formation and are among the few regions where you can ramble and explore the links of creatures that are older than 110 million years. Let me tell you how you can enjoy the blending assortment of panoramas and adventures. Best place to… Soak under the cascading waterfall Visit the Springbrook National Park and walk besides the gushing water of Purlingbrook Falls (altitude 33 feet). Or opt to slide down the ravine through the arid forest area and saunter behind the falls. Be a Bird’s Mole You can witness the elegant flight of green  [...]

The continent of Australia is huge and vacant. It’s so huge and vacant that residents here glide from one place to other, disregarding the vacant space like an unwanted relative. Traveling in a bus is neither cheap nor comfortable. It is quite sluggish, congested, and unlikable especially for protracted journeys. On the other hand, aircrafts are very expensive and so quick that you cannot observe even a single landscape accurately. Trains here are quite suitable to travel around the continent. Although not so fast, they have comfortable seating, ample of vacant space to ramble, including lounges, dining & smoking compartments, bathing facility, and hygienic lavatories. All of these at extremely reasonable costs! You can choose your kind of ambiance depending on the level of privacy  [...]

‘It’s so creepy’, I said with a frowned face, ‘seems like it would shatter if I throw this feather on it.’ My childhood friend, Elisa, and I stood sturdily at one side of the slender, fragile, wooden bridge that connect two sides of a deep gorge located in the tropical forest of the Dunk Island, a serene, practically isolated and abandoned oasis off Australian east coast, just adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. The other side of the ravine embraced awe-inspiring landscapes, birds, flora and fauna. So it’s mandatory for us to cross the stilted, dodgy bridge. Elisa turned around ‘What? Are you thinking of chickening out now?’ I stood silently watching her eyes. ‘Look at the landscape there, it’s so beautiful. Come on let’s keep walking. I ignored her and kicked  [...]

Coober Pedy, South Australia After some hours of drive and three toilet stops, I finally reached Coober Pedy from Port Augusta. I found few drunken aboriginal men laid on the dusty road and on foot were some mine-workers. I wondered if it was the end of the world or at least that’s what the city looked like. I started counting the trees and found only 4. Okay, let’s try shops, I thought and found only 10. I seriously didn’t know anything about the terrain until I met another traveler, Randy Walt, who accompanied me till I was in Coober Pedy. He was a free travel guide for me. According to Randy’s research, eighty five percent of the population lives underground after some nuclear fallout. Most of the houses, cathedrals, inns, and stores are built underground. However, a small  [...]

Henderson Island is a coral island where nobody resides and is situated in the South Pacific Ocean. It is a part of the Pitcairn Islands. Pitcairn islands are divided into four distinct volcanic islands officially named as Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands. The islands lie within the British colony and are the last remaining islands in the Pacific. Out of these, only Pitcairn is the island where people resides. In another words, Pitcairn is the least populated place in the jurisdiction where only 50 people resides. As this place lie in the volcanic prone zone, people are not access to it. The people who initially settled on Pitcairn and Henderson were the Polynesians who lived there for few of the centuries. Later, during the 15th century the Polynesians were discovered by the  [...]