"Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef" Yoni's photos around Cairns, Australia

Preview of Yoni's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Cairns, Australia Entry Title: "Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef" Entry: "Jan. 4, 2007 Early in the morning we check into the Koala Beach Resort in Cairns city center. Not an arbitrary choice but the third place we tried to get find a vacancy, each time going up the price scale. Still not a bad place, but cost $70/nite Australian, and has a nice pool in the court yard. [GPS 16 55.197S 145 46.439E from the street in front] There is no beach near here though. We cleared out the van and take it to the Wicked depot to turn in and got our deposit back with no problem. We have driven 3346 kilometers or about 2091 miles of Australia, from Sydney to Cairns including side trips. We couldn't have seen as much of Australia as we did without the van, but it will be nice having someone else do the driving from here on. As soon as we could, we got on the train up into the mountains to Kuranda, which is something Irina has been talking about for 13 years, when she had visited Cairns. Arvid wants to see what she's been talking about. It's a steep and picturesque railroad trip winding up through rainforests and numerous tunnels to Kuranda on the Atherton Tablelands. We spent a couple hours walking about this cute little tourist town and then took the Skyrail back down to Cairns. The Skyrail was not here 13 ...

"It Bloody Stinks" Hudsondino's photos around Rotorua, New Zealand

Preview of Hudsondino's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Rotorua, New Zealand Entry Title: "It Bloody Stinks" Entry: "They love to have a joke about Australians. It mostly boils down to Rugby and Cricket, unlike jokes in European countries where jokes are often derived from some sort of cultural and historical difference. However such one joke I found amusing told to me by a guide around Hells Gate, was: - A Maori guy just arrives in Australia and walks up to customs at Sydney airport. Customs Official - Have you got a criminal record? Maori - I didn't realise you still had to have one. Made me laugh, I dare anyone to fill in their visa when they arrive in Australia and put that. After finding a campsite pretty late, we decided to get very drunk. We had a great game of **** Head (great card game) and ended up pretty ****. We over indulged on foam bananas and doritos and mixed with the volumes of Bourbon and Coke made for a very uncomfortable sleep. This place stinks. It is basically a town built on a volcano and in just about every garden you can see steam coming from the ground filling the air with a sulfuric stink much like rotten eggs. We sat on the lake-side for a while and had one of those travel moments where you have to reflect on how random the whole situation you are in, is. Even more random was the fact that Andrews dad had just ...

"El pancho" Astridenellen's photos around Salta, Argentina

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Salta, Argentina by TravelPod blogger Astridenellen titled "El pancho" Astridenellen's travel blog entry: "Haaidihow! Onze 4-daagse in Salta is anders verlopen dan verwacht. De meeste mensen komen naar Salta om de omgeving te verkennen. Wij hebben er echter een luilekker tripje van gemaakt. Salta was helemaal anders dan we ons voorgesteld hadden. Het is een vrij grote stad met veel winkelstraten en de omgeving is zeer groen. Het koloniale gedeelte van Salta voldeed wel aan onze verwachting. Onze enige culturele activiteit was het MAAM-museum waar je enkele mummies kan zien. Deze zijn gevonden in de omliggende bergen van Salta en zijn zeer goed bewaard gebleven, het was de moeite. We hebben tijdens onze tochtjes door de straten van Salta een nieuwe ontdekking gedaan: de pancho! Een hotdog waarop je alle mogelijke sausen kan smijten: mayonaise, ketchup, mosterd, barbecue saus, looksaus, kaassaus (Roquefort, Cheddar, Parmesan). En daarbovenop maïs, kleine frietjes, olijven, noem maar op. Niet echt gezond te noemen, maar het is wel lekker ;-). Tot de volgende! English version Haaidihow! Our 4 day trip in Salta went a bit different than we expected. Most people come to Salta to explore the surrounding area. We on the other hand went for a lazy tour. Salta was totally different than we imagined. It's a quite big city with a lot of shopping streets and the surroundings are very green. The colonial part of Salta was exactly ...