Darwin, Australia - G'day!

After what we read in our guide book about Darwin, we are first of all happy that we survived our stay. “Defiantly not a place for people with week nerves. In addition to cyclones and bombs, there is a lot of other factors that can lead to sudden death. The city has the highest density of lightning stokes in Australia, 11 different poisoned snakes, hiding crocodiles, deadly spiders, and the most scary of them all Box Jellyfish.” - Luckily we didn't stumbled over any of them, the lighting however, we saw every night.

This time we also managed to find a free place to stay, with Brooke and her snake in millner ten minutes outside the city.

Kakadu National Park was the main reason we decided to include Darwin in our journey. We had 1 day tour in this extreme big park, along with us there were about 10 other morning birds on the same tour, and of course our enthusiastic guide, Owen. He could really talk, and he usually never had any good finish line. Or maybe we were to tiered to follow him, we didn't exactly have the best night on that mattress we “slept” on.

Owen talking about all the plants who can kill us!

During the tour we visited an Aborigional Museum, had a cruise on Yellow Water and took a hike in the area around Nourlangie. Amazing landscape and a colorful animal life. Marthe saw a lot of cool birds and plenty of small kangaroo's called Wallaroos. (Ranveig did also got her eye on some of the birds!)

While in Kakadu we felt like being in Africa, the city reminded us more about the states. - All the gun shops, the food, crazy people on the bus and the many homeless. Except here the homeless were aborigional's.

Our last day in Darwin, we scouted around, and found the most popular attractions the city had to offer.

Lunch!

Our impression of aussies are very good, we have never met more helpful people. You don't even have to take out your map, before someone runs up and offer their help.

Cheers Mates!

Marthe&Ranveig