Jindabyne, Australia (9th Jan 2008) After another early start we left Lakes Entrance at sunrise to make our way along the Snowy River to get to Jindabyne, crossing the border from Victoria over to New South Wales along the way. We had an interesting drive along a very narrow dirt road up a steep hill. We spent a lot of the journey looking at how close the wheels of the bus were to the edge of the hill, but we also saw some lovely views, lots of wildlife & ...

Wilsons Promontory and Lakes Entrance, Australia (8th Jan 2008) As soon as we clambered onto our Oz Experience bus we realised we were in for a treat as our driver/guide was, well, enthusiastic puts it lightly! There were around twenty of us on the bus and our nightmare came true when Gollum (as he referred to himself as) handed the microphone back and demanded we all give an introduction to ourselves. We contemplated faking being asleep but for fear of being ...

Great Ocean Road, Australia (6th Jan 08) We had been wondering for a few days what was the best way we would be able to go see the Great Ocean Road, the beach's and the amazing scenery. We were torn between paying a fortune to go on a mini bus tour group tour and paying a fortune to rent ourselves a car for the day. The choice became so much easier when we got back to Leah's house and she said, "Hey shall I drive us down the Great Ocean Road at the weeken...

Melbourne, Australia (3rd Jan 08) After having to check out of the hostel at 10am we thought it would be easier to just go the airport and wait there even though our flight wasn't till 4 in the afternoon. At the desk we got offered an earlier flight as they had a cancelled flight later on and needed as many free seats on our original flight as possible. So an hour later we were on our way back down to Melbourne. Leah, a girl who we met on the Vietnam leg of ou...

Sydney, Australia (31st Dec 07) The only reason we have come to Sydney this time around is to celebrate New Years Eve on the Harbour Front and to watch the world famous firework display. Since this time around we are only in the city for 2 nights we decided/were forced to splash out on our biggest extravagance for the entire trip and ended up staying in a very centrally located, 4 star hotel which is not far from the central train station. It was an easy journ...