We left Alice Springs on the Ghan, arriving in Adelaide after our loooong train journey. From there we had 3 days of driving to get to our next destination, the Blue Mountains. We lucked out with the weather as for the whole 3 days we have been here it has been sunny and the visibility has been really good - apparently sometimes it can be really foggy up here and you can't see a thing! We arrived in the late afternoon, so on our first day we just went down to Ech...

After our camping trip to Uluru we had 3 days to explore Alice Springs. On the first day we moved to another hostel around the corner from our first one, and we're so glad we did! It advertised itself as a 'no party' hostel, and it's so quiet and peaceful! Hardly any noise at all, which is such a welcome change from other places we have stayed. We got there too early to check in, so we left our luggage there and went to the Todd Mall, the main shopping area in Al...

On Friday we were up bright and early (5am!) ready to be collected for our 3 day camping trip to Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) and Kings Canyon - a joint birthday/Christmas present from Mum and Dad (thank you!). Our guide collected us from the hostel and we set off for the 5 hour drive to Uluru. On the way we stopped off to look at Mount Connor, an Ayers Rock lookalike, and Lake Amadeus, a huge salt lake in the heart of the Australian Outback, before...

We knew when we booked our trip to Darwin that we would be here during the Wet Season, but for the first few days it was pretty good weather apart from a few little rain showers in the afternoon/evenings. The last few days however have shown us just how wet the wet season can get. It started on Saturday as we were driving back to Darwin from our tour to Litchfield National Park, but luckily the storm only lasted about 15 minutes and was over by the time we were b...

Yesterday we went on an organised tour to Litchfield Park, with the company Wallaroo Eco Tours (they are really good and anyone coming to Darwin should definitely consider going on a tour with them!). We were picked up early from our hostel and, once everyone else had been collected, we headed off to the Adelaide River for the first activity of the day - a jumping crocodile cruise! We were really lucky with this because, as the cruise was run by the tour company,...