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Well, after several meditations ... I decide to start in August ...
Australia is located in the southern hemisphere and has a total area of 7,772,535 km2, almost 30 times the size of Italy. Inhabited by aborigines for over 60,000 years, is the oldest continent in the world and now has a population of 20,000,000 inhabitants.
After 14 hours of flight, arriving in Hong Kong and I will stop for a stop for about 12 hours. I take this opportunity, therefore, to visit the beautiful island, which is still the most beautiful city I have ever seen ... I expect more then 11 hours flying to reach my goal ...
WELCOME TO Australia ... ...
Here I am, after an exhausting flight, arriving in Sydney ... and I do not believe my eyes ...
I set foot on Australian soil at 12.00 local time, which in Italy would be 3.00 in the morning ...
I arrived to check the bags and the opportunity to change the currency Australian dollar, which is worth € 0.80 ...
I take the subway and I head in the center of Sidney, where I booked the first night in a hotel in Pitt Street.
About seasons in Australia are the exact opposite of those in the northern hemisphere. In the southern part of the country, spring arrives in September, the summer is from December to January, autumn from March to May, while the winter begins in June. Positive is that the time for most of the year, it's nice and dry. Speaking clearly, now here is winter, but by day I'm in short sleeves, even if the maximum is about 18 ° C ...
After I laid out, beginning immediately my visit and the opportunity to go over to Sydney Tower, which is the highest vantage point of the entire southern hemisphere (formerly AMP Tower). From up here you can enjoy an extraordinary 360 ° view on the main key points of Sidney ... truly a spectacle, that the first visit ... the top floor you can take a multimedia journey from Australia, through a series of virtual ports Al ... second floor, however, there is a restaurant that offers 7 types of meat a ' "special" ... from kangaroo to crocodile, and then go to the Australian ostrich ...
I can still dream ...
I speak, then, in the symbol of Sydney: the Opera House ... There is no other building in the world of equal beauty, which became famous even before it has finished ... In reality, this is a series of theaters and halls, covered from the famous series of "shells" ...
To say nothing of the Harbor Bridge, which remains a few steps away, directly opposite the Opera House ... A masterpiece of engineering and major economic undertaking, which among other things, you can go over the top, enjoying a unique the world of the bay in Sydney ...
On 2 August, on a visit to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, which remains on the opposite side of the center ... Experience is only the first time that I have the honor to see up close and pet the kangaroos and koalas ... too sweet ... especially to see the female with the little pouch inside the ... Obviously, I take this opportunity to take a lot of photos ...
Then, I turn the aquarium in Sydney, which houses the largest collection in the country of aquatic species. In a series of marine habitats, living more than 11,000 copies of some 650 races. For many visitors, the more attractive is the path called "On the ocean bed" means a transparent underwater tunnel, 150 meters, crossing two ocean basins ... really exciting ... The course allows you to see near sharks, and parsnips schools of other fish. Seals and sea horse can be seen, from above and from below, in special marine reserves ... Very beautiful is the exhibition of the great Barrier Reef of Queensland, which remains the largest and most beautiful in the world ...
Speaking of beaches, do a quick trip to Bondi Beach, the most famous beach in Sydney, in the shape of a crescent, with golden sand ... It is the meeting point for lovers of sun and surf, that from all over the world come to Research of the "big wave". Visit, then, the beautiful coast of Manly, wet from the ... really impressive ...
In the late afternoon, he visited the Olympic Park in Sydney, located close to Homebush Bay, which hosted the 27th Olympic Games and Paralympic ...
The guide, in Australia, is the right and the direction of motion is the opposite of our ...
In the center of Sidney, there is a monorail fantastic, what advice you take ...
Very nice and unusual to see is the area of Chinatown and the Rocks Indoor Market, located near the port.
I am organizing, booking a tour, to visit the Park Blue Mountains National Park ... This has developed over 250 million years, and accumulated with the deposition of sedimentary rock and subsequent erosion, which formed spectacular cliffs and coves like the Canyon. After 4 hours of travel by train, arrival at base camp "Katoomba", and then catch the bus that brings me immediately in the pan ... And here's me in front of the Three Sisters, 1100 meters high, a rock formation due to erosion. According to Aboriginal legend, the rock is reminiscent of the three sisters imprisoned by their father, to protect them from a "bunyip" (ie a monster). Personally, I recommend everyone to "make a leap", it is worth the pain ... especially over lunch at a vantage point is unique!
In the afternoon we visit waterfalls Wentworth ... something unique ... I've really never seen anything like this ...
In the evening, the allotment for Sydney to prepare for the next morning for an experience that will write the next few lines ...
On August 10 are in direct flight from Sydney to Alice Springs, just the heart of Australia, in the region called the "Red Center" ... It is essentially made up of vast desert areas and the term "red", which forms part of the name, is because it is characterized and distinguished by the color red (in English, in fact, "red"): red is the sand, as well as soil, rocks and even mountains that stand out in clear, blue sky ... The Red Center boasts one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world, much of which dates back more than 800 million years ago ...
Use 3 hours of flight ... among other things very lively, with lots of turbulence and empty air ... but what is important is to arrive safely to their destination!
I will stop the night in Alice Springs, very quiet town and the base camp for departure to the desert ... Very nice is the view that one has to be above the top of Anzac Hill ... you can dominate the whole landscape ... among other things is the first time that I have the opportunity to see the huge truck with three trailers ...
The next morning he leaves for the mega safari, a week in the Red Center. We are 18 boys: I am the only Italian, the other is Australian, American, Japanese, Canadian and London ... The means of transport that accompanies us in this adventure is a minibus, with a trolley to hold bags ... well, obviously, the two guide ...
After covering 500 km in the middle of the desert, we arrived at the first beautiful Rainbow Valley is a sight to see these mountains indescribable "emerge" from the desert, with their forms ... to appreciate all this, however, we must see with own eyes ... the words are not enough to comment and make sure the idea ...
We entered the National Park Uluru-Kata Tjuta-and there is ... "he"! The most recognizable symbol of Australia is the gigantic monolito.my web: www.viaggiare11.spaces.live.com