Outback Australia Travel Blog

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Cheap Travel Australia - Have the Cheapest Australia Holiday Ever

Did you know that you can easily get discounts of up to 50 percent on your travel in Australia? And it's easy! You just get yourself the...

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Travelling from East Coast to Darwin

We are looking to travel from Sydney to Cairns, down to Mt. Isa via Atherton over a period of approx 2 months, leaving Sydney in early March. We are

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Jet Lag Remedies - Do They Actually Work?

I had nearly given up, but after 15 years of trial and error, I finally found a totally natural jet lag remedy that actually works...

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Driving around Australia

I am currently in Perth. I plan to leave Perth, drive the west coast to Darwin, over to Cairns then down to Brisbane, Sydney over to Ayers Rock and

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Central Australia in December/January

My family and I are planning to visit Central Australia some time in December and January. But I worry about the temperature. Is it really very hot

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Kings Canyon to Alice via Mereenie Loop

Hello, just thought I'd share our trip report on the Mereenie Loop Road from Kings Canyon to Alice Springs for other travellers. Firstly there are

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Camping in Kakadu during the wet season

I am going (with my boyfriend) to be in Kakadu around the 5 December. We wanted to camp because everything is so expensive but you seem to say that it

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Is the Outback Moving to Sydney?

What goes through your mind when you wake up in the morning and see a thick orange cloth hanging outside the window of your bedroom? First you pinch

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On the way to Alice Springs...

My mother and I took a bus tour through Australia's Outback in 1980 to experience the various places, see Ayers Rock and the Olgas. There were hardly

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Happy to have climbed Uluru

Ever since I translated a story about an illegal climb of Uluru via Ngaltawata in 1976 - I think - for a mountaineering stories anthology, I wanted to

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Spiritual, Magical Uluru

A few years ago, I went to Uluru. I was on a very low budget, but I went there, thinking the climb was closed a decade or two before. I was surprised

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Uluru – frequently unanswered questions

Beauty, bans, fines, nonsense & superstition... National or Aboriginal park? Aboriginal culture – the invisible side.... Is it really worth a visit?

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Booking flight before applying for Working Holiday Visa

In your Working Holiday Visa description it says that You must not make arrangements to travel to Australia until you are advised that your visa has

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Uluru: Climb or not

No, I would't march into a Buddhist temple in shorts and hiking boots because the monks hadn't pressured me not to. But I certainly would do so

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The best way to do the big Red Centre three

Hi. I'm trying to work out the best way of planning a trip to Kings Canyon and Uluru from Alice Springs . We fly in from Darwin on 16th Sept

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Travelling from Perth up the west coast to Darwin via Broome

I am planning on leaving Perth in the next 2 weeks and would like to get to Darwin then over to Cairns. I want to go to all of the places in have seen

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Working in Australia without visa

I'm planning on going to Oz with a friend who will have a working holiday visa but I won't as I've already done that during 1999 / 2000. How easy /

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To climb or not to climb, what was the question?

Tis funny how cultural significance changes over the years. The current guardians of Ayers Rock (Uluru) have brought forward opinions in the past 15

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Is there another way to get a working visa?

I'm thinking to travel and work in Australia , but unfortunately my country of origin (I'm currently living in Thailand) was not mentioned on the

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Working Visas - can you go and come back?

If I applied for and got a working visa - did 3 months fruit picking , and then after 6 months decided I wanted to go to NZ, or Europe or

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The Climb

I am about to visit Uluru BUT I will NOT be climbing the rock. A few years ago I studied Tourism studies and learnt a lot I did not know about the

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Corrugations - The things they do to you.

A couple of hints for first time visitors to some of our country roads. Corrugations are the invention of a particularly fiendish devil and here are a

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We Don't Climb

While studying abroad, our class spent several days at Uluru and spoke with a few Aboriginal elders. They explained to us how sacred climbing Uluru

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Living Earth

Yes, I really felt that the Earth itself was alive, sitting up there on the Uluru. Despite having been brought to Uluru by a tourist bus (that was in

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Stranded in Old Andado

Another story about Central Australia in 1986... We left Alice Springs for Oodnadatta without a worry. After a fairly long drive our bus got stuck in

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Melbourne-Perth-Burrup... too ambitious?

We have three weeks and we want to visit siblings in Melbourne and Perth. I would love to visit the Burrup. Would it better to fly everywhere seeing

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My Trip through the Outback

Over Easter of 1995 I did a 8 day camping tour from Darwin to Alice Springs. I was there on University exchange and this was part of my holidays. I

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Camper Van Hire WA April - Road Closed??

Myself and 3 friends are planning a trip from Perth to Darwin from the 2nd April – 27th April 2009. We were going to hire a camper van but are now

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The Olgas - Kata Tjuta, Australia, NT

Don't miss these rocks and gorges of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. In my experience the Olgas have more...

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Kings Canyon, Australia - Watarrka National Park

Kings Canyon is the biggest attraction of Watarrka National Park (often called Kings Canyon National Park). Read why many of my readers name the Canyon Rim Walk as the highlight of their trip to the Red Centre.

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Bicentennial National Trail - Lets do it

Are there any others out there with a desire to do a trip along the Bicentennial Trail? Preferably I'd do it on horse back with minimal gear. I should

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Vegetarian on Cattle Stations

I want to spend a year in Australia on different cattle stations. But I've got one problem. I'm a vegetarian. I'm willing to eat meat for one year,

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How long do yo have to leave Oz between visits to renew visa?

You say in your ' About me ' section that every 6 months you left Australia and went to Timor, Bali, South Africa and then returned and renewed your

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Approval to run into Uluru

We are planning to run from Alice Springs to Uluru in May (finishing at the base of Uluru). Uluru being on Aboriginal land, would we need to submit a

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Taking the family pet dog

We are hoping to travel outback later in the year with our four kids in a camper trailer. We would love to take our dog but don't know if that would

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Family of five off to Alice Springs and Uluru from Sydney

We (2a & 3k) plan to go from Sydney to Uluru in 2010 for three weeks. Unfortunately we are limited to school holidays so would you suggest April or

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Can bar work in the Outback count towards 2nd Year Visa?

I have only got a few months left in Australia to complete my first year - I absolutely love the place and have travelled from Sydney right around to

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Work visa for 30 year old

I am a 30 year old Canadian wanting to apply for an Australian holiday work visa. My question is: Can I apply for a working holiday visa before I

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Litchfield was busy but worth it

We visited Litchfield in May 2007. It was quite busy, but not crowded. All waterfalls were flowing strongly, the track to one of the smaller ones was

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Longest drive out of the Chambers Pillar

Well, this is all shameful story. However, I want to share with visitors of this website, especially with people new to 4WD vehicle and unsealed road.

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