Australia trip - Itinerary / Accomodation date location accomodation 21-Jan-14 Overnight flight British Airways 22-Jan-14 Overnight flight Qantas 23-Jan-14 Sydney Louise's apartment 24-Jan-14 Sydney Louise's apartment 25-Jan-14 Sydney Louise's apartment 26-Jan-14 Airlie Beach Colonial Palms 27-Jan-14 Airlie Beach Colonial Palms 28-Jan-14 Eungella B...

Kilometers driven Airlie Beach to Sydney 2936 Sydney to Adelaide 3264 Perth/Coral Bay/Margret River 3433 Total 9,633 kilometers 5,966 miles Miles Flown London to Hong Kong 5990 Hong Kong to Sydney 4580 Sydney to Airlie Beach 956 Adelaide to Alice Springs 818 Alice Springs to Perth 1230 Perth to Hong Kong ...

Hong Kong Day 8 Sadly that time has arrived, the last day of our Australian Walkabout and our last day in Hong Kong. We have seen so many sights over the last nine weeks that it's difficult to think back right now as to what they all were. Having said that just by thinking so many memories start to come back and we have not even started to look at the thousands of photos we have taken. Still that is for tomorrow, there is still today in Hong Kong. We woke to th...

Hong Kong day 7 We woke to the best sunshine in Hong Kong so far so we set off for Lantau Island. Lantau is the largest of Hong Kong’s islands and is almost double the size of Hong Kong Island itself. It is the site of Hong Kong International Airport, but most of the island remains largely rural, dominated by dramatic peaks and valleys. It has two principle attractions, Big Buddha and Disneyland. We followed the advice on trip advisor and took the MTR to Tung...

Hong Kong Day 6 After a leisurely start to the day we decided to visit Kowloon again rather than Lantau Island as the weather was much colder today, 15C and very cloudy. We headed straight for Mongkok on the MTR which is considered to be among the most densely populated areas on the planet, a mass of neon signs and crowds of locals and tourists. Mongkok is notoriously known as the heartland of triad gangs but they say tourists are unlikely to be a target and we...