Tag: Northern Territory
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Darwin to Broome – The Kimberley Road Trip
Since fate had allotted me an extra 3 months in Australia, I was out of excuses to not do the dreaded West Coast. Rumour has it that everything West of Darwin is either barren (land), flooded (roads), on fire (bush) or in some way deadly (crocodiles, snakes, Wolf Creek serial killers). Some of those things…
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Uluru
After leisurely making our way up the entire East Coast over the course of a month, the last few weeks were a sudden blur of flights, trains, with a rushed visit to Uluru squeezed in between. When planning a trip around Australia, that big red rock seems to sit there like the proverbial elephant. You…
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Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park was the first place in Australia where we got a feel for and an appreciation of Indigenous culture. The whole topic of colonial history, Aboriginal relations, land rights and restitution is a minefield and I know better than to comment extensively on matters I only have a vague understanding of. Suffice to…
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Darwin
Many people enjoy Darwin, but I failed to see the appeal entirely. Hot, humid, swarming with disease-bearing mosquitoes. While Northern Queensland also has all of the above, at least Cairns and Port Douglas have a few things between them to recommend the towns. Darwin is architecturally unattractive, and entertainment largely consists of the kind of…