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Australasia and Pacific
This is about a life long dream to circumnavigate the world on a surfing adventure. It has been modified to include some of Jolie's ambitions in travel. I would like for it to be something of a documentary of the event.
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After 45 days in Nepal, we arrived in Australia in search of all the creature comforts of home and were not at all disappointed. We fete'ed Christmas with Anne's brother, Neil and his wife Robin and our godson Callum. Seeing Callum's eyes light up on
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My Auz adventures began on 25 Jan 2005 when I flew from Auckland, New Zealand to Sydney, Australia. I had planned to stay for 3 weeks but ended up staying for 8 weeks. I guess I just kind of liked it here. "No worries, mate"
I spent the first 10
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Where are Janet and Rick? This is where Toronto & Sydney meet! Actually both are in Australia, our latest destination!
Austrlia is a huge continent. It's administratively split into 6 States and 2 Territories. We sampled a bit of all but 1 of each.
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Australia is an amazing country – For Dieter it is the no.1 place to go.
In 1993-94 we spent 10 month in Australia. The nature is wonderful and the people are unbelievable, helpful and hospitable as you can never imagine.
Furthermore it’s huge,
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I'll be writing about my travels and experiences through the vast continent of Australia. Each chapter will focus on a different city or town that I visit, as long as I can find an internet cafe at least. I'll be traveling up the eastern coast, down
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Here we are in Indonesia, our next travel destination. It took a while (see below) to actual get here but well worth it.
We visited two main areas: Bali (mostly Hindu) & Java (mostly Muslim).
Here we are dressed (by our host family in Ubud, Bali)
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On Jan 11, I flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles and then had a 12 hour flight to Auckland, New Zealand where I arrived on Jan 13 after crossing the international date line. My friend Robin Steel (from Edinburgh but living in Sydney) joined me in
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Between 1000 & 1200 AD, the Moari people came to New Zealand (NZ) from Polynesia. Many Maori traditions are celebrated today in NZ. Pictured at left is a Maori warrior in traditional dress welcoming us into a traditional carved meeting house.
The
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The New Zealand Woods
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Photos of coastal australia starting in the north in croc infested Daintree River area; ending in scenic and civilized Great Ocean Road on the south coast
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Truthfully, most of the planning for this honeymoon trip went into the SouthEast Asia portion with little thought spent on Austalia. We had reasoned to ourselves that Australia would be just like travelling at home, and therefore it would be easy to
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In June '02 myself, Lea, Brett and Beaulea set out on our journey around the world.
Europe was first, followed by Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
It took 12 months of hard work to plan - now we just had to enjoy...
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