Marie Goes Australia

My trip !

Hi everyone !

I'm Djianni, and I will tell to you in my blog about my 3 week trip to Australia.

1^stweek :

1^st/2nd Day :

Darwin

I arrived in Darwin during the night. What can I say ? This is an awesome city ! I was thinking this area was a bit primitive, but no ! People seem different but really friendly.

Arnhem Land

After this, I visited the Arnhem Land : it's a bit arid (that's what I thinked at 1st) but clearly nice, I can't forget this experience.

Day 3/4 :

Cairns

I took the airplane to come to Cairns. After this, I really wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef ! So, I stayed a bit to refresh myself in this little city. The next day, I realized one of my dreams : I swam in the Great Barrier Reef, and that was really really incredible. I can remember every move I made with fishes and nature in this blue-water land.

Great barrier Reef

Day 5/6/7 :

Sydney

To be high (??), I did a good night in the plane, direction: Sydney. Arrived to this city, I was ready to spend a lot of my money, because to my problem of buy a lot of useless things. For 3 days, I was on a trip from Sydney to Melbourne, passing in Canberra : that was a real nice experience for me, but not for my bank account...

To conclude, I did some Surf, visited a lot of museums, constantly moved and bought a lot of souvenirs !

Canberra

Second Week :

Near the 1^st and the 3^rd day, I came in Tasmania : wow, what a special island ! During this period, I did a tour of the cities : I saw Burrie, Launceston and Hobart. Didn't have time to visit Devonport, I'm a bit disappointed about that, but cannot do anything about it anymore..

Tasmania

After this, I stayed for 4 days near Adelaide, to have a little break on my trip.

Adelaide

Third Week :

I took a boat during 2 days to come to Perth. When I was here, I was really tired from this long boattrip.

Arrived to Perth, I stayed there during 5 days : I rested a lot, and did some shopping again; I'll was truly sad for my bank account :(

Perth

This last day was very interesting, but I didn't really do anything.

To conclude, these last 3 weeks were very important for me, because I learned a lot of things about Australia's origins et culture, like Arborigines or food (not very different) and loved this trip. See you later for an another trip !!

Djianni

A Journey to the End of the World

A Journey to the End of the World

                                       

   Monday 15^th , 10AM France time, I started my trip from Paris where I took the plane to Sydney, I flew over the Simpson's desert, 21 hours of plane, I saw many little ranches and wild animals. I arrived in Sydney at 7AM local time. I was very tired because of jet lag, there is a 10 hour lag between France and Australia. My first days were very difficult, It was very difficult to find my hotel and this day it was very hot, so I didn't see many things.

   First week I visited Sydney, a very big and beautiful city. I saw the opera and many monuments which were incredible. We can imagine Sydney is the capital of Australia. Sydney has a magnificent bay! Surrounded by great and famous monuments, Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. There are many kilometres of beaches and a large expanse of the Pacific Ocean. I saw a beautiful amazing aquarium, a zoo and stunning botanical gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens).

  

    The second week I travelled to Newcastle, and it was wonderful. I visited Newcastle's downtown. It’s a city which has a special environment, buildings are original. There is a beach, it’s a beautiful city, with less modern architecture than Sidney. It changes these big cities. It was a quiet and relaxing week before returning to a very large city: Canberra!

 

    The third week, I began a long trip until Canberra, so I could get some rest. Canberra…  Australia’s capital, there are many trees and greenery. It’s a beautiful town, I visited many monuments and I went in a labyrinth. I saw the parliament’s house. During this week I ate many typical meals and it was very good ! I walked every day to visit things. So at the end of the week I was very tired.

Monday 5th February,

Back in France, the journey is over .... It was really beautiful and interesting, very fun and instructive to discover this country which is at the end of the world. During the trip I saw a group of Kangaroos, fortunately !

                                                                                                                                  MARIDET Alex

Hi Australia!

Hi Australia !

For my last holidays, i went to Australia, specially to 3 different places :

-to the Gold Coast in Brisbane,

-to the Great Barrier Reef

-to Melbourne for the tennis tournament

It was an amazing trip, the flight was good with Air Australia from Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport to Brisbane airport. The flight was very long but there were many movies on the plane so it was not boring.

 I stayed 6 days in Brisbane, and the weather was good so I went surfing on the Gold Coast which is one of the best places in the world to surf.

The beaches are beautiful and the waves are the biggest in the whole world even if you have to take care with the sharks. However, Australian Government allowed people to fish and kill sharks yesterday, the 18^th of February 2014.

         I love scuba diving so I had to go to the great barrier reef. This is one of the best place in the world because the marine fauna is very diversified. It is also the largest barrier reef in the world and I stayed there for 6 days.

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I think this step of my trip was my best experience because I had never seen  so beautiful submarine landscapes. They were extremely colourful and the biodiversity was pretty awesome.

On top of that I had the opportunity to swim with sharks and it is not something that everyone can do. I had many chills.

Finally I went to Melbourne and I watched the quarter finals, semi finals and the final so I was there for the second week of the tournament.

I was sad that no French players were playing this week but I am glad that Roger Federer came back and won his 18^th grand slam.

       

To conclude I can say that my trip to Australia was amazing or awesome or anything like this but it is not enough to describe what I really felt during this trip.

Cya

Augustin.

Ines's Trip

Hello !

During my summer holidays I went in Australia !

I had a very full program !

I went in Canberra, Sydney, Bells Beach and after this I went on a safari !

The 1st of July I took the plane in the airport of Paris !

The first 2 days I visited Australia’s capital : Canberra, it’s one of the smallest towns of Australia, I visited the parliament and I walked through the town.

The Parliament in Canberra

After this I took the bus to go to Sydney, where I stayed for four days. I discovered many beautiful things.

First of all I visited the opera,  which is the most  important and the most famous symbol in Australia. It was built between 1963 and 1973.The opera is on a little peninsula.

I liked very much this monument !!!

The Sydney Opera

After this I went on the bridge of Sydney .It is the longest of Australia (more than 1 kilometer, including over 500 m) and the highest  (134 m above the water to the top)  and it is still the widest bridge (50 m) of Australia.It was built between 1923 and 1932, and remains the symbol of technological success in Australia.

The Sydney Bridge

After this week in Sydney and Canberra, I decided  to go surfing to the west of Melbourne on Bellarina Peninsula. And I visited the legendary beach of Bells Beach !!!

 

Bells Beach

One week later I went by plane to the Darwin Valley where I made a safari and a cruise on the floodplain. I saw crocodiles and kangaroos.

The Darwin Valley

It is one of my best memories !!!  Australia is so beautiful !!!

Inès Bouquet des Chaux

3 weeks in the land of the kangaroo!

Hey my friends ! My three week trip to Australia ends tomorrow so I'll enjoy my last evening to tell you about my trip. I first arrived in Melbourne after 21 hours flight. As soon as I arrived, I went through Federation Square to reach the hotel.

Federation Square

 After dropping my bags, I walked around in the city center until the evening and I went back to the hotel. My second day was very relaxing as I went down the Yarra River by boat and upon return I ate a meat pie outside and I went to bed.

Yarra river

Meat Pie

 The next day, I went to the Phillip Island Beach Summerland, to observe the pygmy penguins. They were very cute and exciting.

Pygmy penguins

 On my fourth day, I realized the dream of all girls on earth! And yes, I swam with dolphins on the Mornington Peninsula and I observed the beautiful homes by the sea while enjoying the sun.

Mornington Peninsula

 Then I went home.The last day of my first week, I went shopping and I prepared for my starting to Tasmania.

I visited Tasmania from North to South by car in search of the famous Tasmanian Devil with scary scream.

Tasmanian Devil

 I had the chance to meet one on the last day of my second week. The rest of the time I visited Wineglass Bay and Mount William National Park.

Then I flew back to Melbourne and made a road trip to Adelaide. I started by visiting the iconic surf spot Bells Beach and charm surfers. The next day I hiked in the forest to the waterfalls of the Otway National Park.

Otway National Park

 The third day I went to admire the limestone formations of the Twelve Apostles and I did climbing Mount Arapiles. The last days were devoted to Aboriginal culture by visiting the Grampians National Park. Then I returned to Melbourne to get on a 21h flight tomorrow so I'll quickly go to bed. So see you tomorrow my friends! :)

Léocadie Bance

Kangaroo Country

Kangaroo Country

Hello everybody! What's up? I've just reached home after a tremendous trip to Australia! I was there for 3 weeks and I have mainly visited 4 different places: I started with Melbourne, secondly I went to Canberra the capital city of Australia, then I traveled to Sydney, and finally I went to the Gold Coast in Brisbane.

My trip started from Paris, where I took a plane that send me directly to Melbourne. The flight was very very long but it was worth it.

When I arrived in Melbourne, the climate was very different than the French one and it surprised me a bit... but it was also grateful even if at the beginning it wasn't really usual for me to support such temperatures. However my capacity to support the heat isn't the subject of this post! So, in Melbourne, I visited the Stadium where  the tennis Australian Open takes place every year. And it was absolutely awesome! Just imagine that all the best tennis players have been here once! But the city was also beautiful.

My second step was to Canberra, and before traveling to Australia I hadn't heard much about this city… So it was really surprising for me to discover the capital city of this country!

Then I went to Sydney. And it was certainly my favorite city of those I’ve visited. What a wonderful city! So beautiful and so interesting for me! I’ve always dreamt to visit the Opera of Sydney which is known all over the world.

Finally I went to Brisbane, on the gold coast. And it was so exciting to surf there! With this amazing spirit of Australians!

So, during my trip I’ve done lots of things like eating a lot (of course!), meeting people, surfing, rowing (naturally too) and many others.

To conclude, I’d say that it obviously was the most exciting trip I’ve ever done! My only regret is that I have not seen kangaroos in real life!

Vincent D.

Marine's Trip

I went to Australia leaving from Paris airport on Monday the 1^st of August. First, I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went diving, I saw lots of fishes, starfishes and corals. It's fascinating to see all colors at same time. I saw a turtle under the water .I also did a boat ride on the coral sea, this was wonderful.

During the third day, I went to Sydney Opera House, 

it's enormous. I also visited the Harbour Bridge. I went to the Queen Victoria Building where I bought souvenirs and clothes. I visited  the Blue Mountains.

For the second week, I went to Canberra, where I visited the 

national gallery of Australia, where I saw national art and aboriginal art, then I did a balloon flight above the city and the Burley Griffin lake. I explored the parliament of Canberra. It was delightful.

To finish my journey, I went to Tasmania by boat. I went hiking.  

Then, I took the plane to go to Perth, where I visited the Perth Mint, Swan Bells Tower and the museum of Gallery art aboriginals of Western Australia. I also explored the shops of King Street,and the restaurants on Murray Street .I swam in the Swan River

For the third week I went to Melbourne by plane, there I explored the Mornington Peninsula's park and the Great Ocean Road, I also swam with dolphins and I saw the famous shops in the little streets of Melbourne.

This was a wonderful journey, I hope that I will return one day!

Marine Ranaud 

Going to Australia !

Hey! My friends and me went to Australia for 3 weeks! 

 So to begin with, I went to Australia leaving from Paris airport. I arrived on  Monday the 4th of July,  at the airport of Darwin.

I visited the city and a few kilometer to Darwin a park presenting only animals living in the North of Australia. It was so beautiful !

                                                         I seen also many crocodiles

I stayed 2 days to Darwin. It’s the tropical capital of Australia’s Northern Territory. I saw the beautiful national park of Litchfield.

 On thursday the 7th of July, with a car location, I went to Townsville.  On my trip I also came along Mount Isa, Tennant Creek and Katherino.  It took three days. To Townsville, there is the famous Great Barrier Reef ! In this city I visited the Strand, a long tropical beach, Riverway, a park, Reef HQ, the biggest aquarium of coral to the world and the tropical's museum.

for 2 days, I took the boat to go to Brisbane. I stayed 3 days in this city. I saw the Queen Street Mall, and I surfed on wonderful waves!

After a day I took the car to go to Sydney!! In the Harbour bridge, I had a wonderful seen on the city Sydney!

I visited museums and the famous opera. And of course I did some shopping! I stayed only 2 days in this beautiful town because after I went, of cours, to Australia's capital : Canberra.





I visited this town and I made shopping again. And I saw in art gallery, Aboriginals' work, it was so impressive!

I stayed 2 days and after I taken the plane on the airport of Canberra for 2 days to return to Paris.

Géraldine MUSAT