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Itinerary for a month in Australia
Our plans for a month in Australia are finally coming into place.
Thanks in part to the many good ideas from this group. Briefly we arrive in Sydney June 17 and spend 6 nights. We plan to stay in the Kings Cross area and visit the usual tourist sites - Opera House Tour, Walking tour of Harbor/QuayRoya, Botanic Gardens, Taronga zoo, National Maritime Museum , "The Rocks" historic area nighttime walking tour, Ferry ride from Circular Quay to Manly Warf And Manly scenic walk, Sydney Aquarium. One question, some books indicate that the Kings Cross area is a little seedy. Will we feel uncomfortable there? Then we fly to Alice spend 5 nights. Rent a car in Alice Visit Ayers rock, the Olgas, King Canyon, MacDonnell National.... Take the Ghan from Alice to Darwin. 7 nights in Darwin area. Renting a car to see Kakadu, Katherine Gorge, Litchfield and a few things in Darwin. Then Fly to Cairn. This is where it get's a bit dicey. We again plan to rent a car but it may be possible to avoid that here. The original plan was to visit the 3 kinds of Islands a coral cay – Green Island, a continental reef Fitzroy– and a sand island - magnetic island. Possibly spending a night on one if it's not too expensive. In addition we plan to visit Daintree (I'm unsure what to do and see here) and Kuranada. Now I'm wondering if we need to do a separate trip to the reef in addition to the island trips. Also I'm thinking of eliminating magnetic island it's not that close to Cairn. We plan to camp when possible. Thanks for the previous help and any further thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Steve Gerdemann |
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"Steve Gerdemann" wrote in message
m... Our plans for a month in Australia are finally coming into place. Thanks in part to the many good ideas from this group. Briefly we arrive in Sydney June 17 and spend 6 nights. We plan to stay in the Kings Cross area and visit the usual tourist sites - Opera House Tour, Walking tour of Harbor/QuayRoya, Botanic Gardens, Taronga zoo, National Maritime Museum , "The Rocks" historic area nighttime walking tour, Ferry ride from Circular Quay to Manly Warf And Manly scenic walk, Sydney Aquarium. One question, some books indicate that the Kings Cross area is a little seedy. Will we feel uncomfortable there? Kings Cross is very seedy at night ... strip clubs, prostitutes, and heroin addicts. It also has tourists, backpackers, artists, residents, businesses etc - very varied and cosmopolitan. It is comparatively safe. I have never actually seen a fight, or any real unpleasantness, and I used to live there. You are extremely unlikely to be involved in any aggro, even at 1:00 am in the morning, unless you go looking for it. I don't know how uncomfortable you will feel there; if you are used to that kind of scene then it may take a little getting used to. Then we fly to Alice spend 5 nights. Rent a car in Alice Visit Ayers rock, the Olgas, King Canyon, MacDonnell National.... Take the Ghan from Alice to Darwin. 7 nights in Darwin area. Renting a car to see Kakadu, Katherine Gorge, Litchfield and a few things in Darwin. Sure you want to take the train? I haven't done it, but its a pretty easy and interesting drive, and the train is not cheap? Then Fly to Cairn. This is where it get's a bit dicey. We again plan to rent a car but it may be possible to avoid that here. The original plan was to visit the 3 kinds of Islands a coral cay - Green Island, a continental reef Fitzroy- and a sand island - magnetic island. Possibly spending a night on one if it's not too expensive. In addition we plan to visit Daintree (I'm unsure what to do and see here) and Kuranada. Now I'm wondering if we need to do a separate trip to the reef in addition to the island trips. Also I'm thinking of eliminating magnetic island it's not that close to Cairn. Magnetic Island isn't a sand island, and its off Townsville (quite a way from Cairns). Its also somewhat suburban. Not worth driving to Townsville to see. Don't stress too much on planning your time in Cairns in detail. There is no real reason to decide what islands you visit - and whether you go to the outer reef - until you get there. Green Island is very pretty, but has about 100,000 tourists on about 1 Hectare of land. Lots of operators in Cairns will take you lots of other places - choose when you get their. You don't really need a car for Cairns or Kuranda (in fact, the whole point of visitting Kuranda is the train trip there). Out of Cairns you will obviously need either a car or take a guided tour. Again, you can work this out on your first afternoon in Cairns when you see what the story is. We plan to camp when possible. Thanks for the previous help and any further thoughts or ideas would be appreciated. Steve Gerdemann What a fan-bloody-tastic holiday. These are some of the most interesting and beautiful places on the planet. Have a good time! |
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