Spent 4 days exploring Kakadu National Park. It's a massive area, 20,000 square kilometres which is divided into seven major regions. It's a difficult place to sum up - I think because it is so massive and so much of that area is just the same. To look at it, as with so much of Australia, you would never guess that a stupendously beautiful spot like Barramundi Gorge for example is less than 10 minutes drive off the main drag. Best to look at the pictures for this one, I think. One thing I will say about Kakadu though, is that the tourism operators seem to think money is no object for visitors. One tour that we would have liked to have done was a Bush Tucker one, where you collect and cook with a local guide. However, for us all as a family to do it, at $195 per adult and $155 for the kids, you're looking at over $600 for the tour. That, to put it into perspective, is our weekly budget for food and petrol.
To me, it's blatant extortion and the traditional owners are having a good laugh about it, I reckon. So Kakadu for all it's wonderful rock art, sunsets and waterfalls left me with a indifferent impression. We would go back to run the punishing road out to Gunlom Falls and stay there for a week perhaps, but it's not top of my list by a long chalk.