Happy new year everyone and welcome to my final blog from Australia. I'm back where I started in Sydney having spent the last 6 weeks travelling all over this vast country. It will be weird to leave as 6 weeks is the longest I am spending in any single country on my travels, but I am excited and ready to head on up to South East Asia. My 8 hour Qantas flight to Singapore departs tomorrow afternoon, and after a very brief one night stay there I fly on up to Bangko...

Hello from Australia's capital city Canberra. I seem to have joined an elite and rare group of people by visiting the Capital Territory as it seems barely any Australians and ever fewer travellers make it here, despite the fact the city is just 3 hours south west of Sydney. Whenever I told an Aussie I had Canberra on my itinerary I got a very strange look, and it seems that the city is much maligned. Canberra, now with a population of 345,000, was purpose built i...

Hello from my new favourite Australian city, Melbourne, and welcome to my Christmas blog! I flew into here from Darwin on Christmas Eve on what was pretty much the only on time Jetstar flight leaving from there that day. The flight itself took 3 hours 45 minutes and was the comfiest flight I've ever had since I had the luxury legroom of an emergency exit row. Annoyingly though they ran out of TV sets for hire after about 6 rows so I had to make do with music for ...

Having left Kakadu we headed west in the direction of Litchfield National Park. To break up the journey we had a stop at the didgeridoo hut in the unusually named town of Humpty Doo. I got the opportunity to try and play a few, and it was certainly a lot harder than it looked. You have to ripple your lips and blow at the same time, and I only really mustered one note in numerous attempts. The Aboroginies play different notes using their throats, which really is r...

Kakadu National Park was for me the highlight of my time in the Northern Territory. Our tour guide John said it was his favourite place in Australia and based on what I've seen I would probably agree. Anyone who has seen Crocodile Dundee 1 or 2 will be familiar with the scenery in Kakadu as this was where the Australia scenes were all filmed. It is a vast expanse of varying landscape covering an area roughly the size of Israel. We of course could only see a small...