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5 Things You Must Know Before You Visit Sydney

May 2, 2020 Sky Gilliam News, Travel No Comments

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Sydney, the capital of Australia, is one of the top tourism points. Why so? It has a number of amusements and tourism facilities which makes the city a perfect choice for vacation. You might be prepared o what you are going to see but you should also know what to expect when you are visiting Sydney for the first time:

No Kangaroos and Koalas Running Around

What is Australia known for? Kangaroos and Koalas and when we plan sydney half day tours or any other city of Australia, we have a dream to see them in the streets. yes, Australia’s wildlife is massive but it does not mean that Koalas and Kangaroos are going to be everywhere. You can arrange a guide if you want to see wildlife in Australia. There are a number of agencies which can give you a local for a few days who can show you around.

A Hub To Yacht Charter

Sydney has a number of yacht charters and thus traveling to an island and close coastal region is easier. Why so? You can go to the middle of the ocean and enjoy the sun and water waves. However, the type of boat that you want, make sure to research them

They Have Left Side Wheel

The traffic in the country runs on the left side of the car. The traffic also remains on the left side. Crossing road sometimes can be a problem especially if you come from a county where the right side is being used for ages. Look at both sides of the road and when crossing the road.

Australians Don’t Tip

Australia happens to be one of the top destinations where there will be hundreds of 1000. However, Australian does not give tips to the waiter which is very different from the rest of the world. In most cases, the price covers all the expenses so that you don’t have to pay.

Coffee and Booz

To some extent, we can say that these two elements are a religion for Aussies. Australia is one of the biggest alcohol providing countries. since the production is local, there is an extensive range of options to pick from. More so, coffee is one of the best souvenirs you can take for your friends. The aroma of the coffee beans is will not get old for at least a few days.
Sydney is one of the best places in the world. However, your research counts before anything. Make sure to read all about this trip before time so that you know what to expect. Prepare your shopping list before time since you might not find time in the end.

Travel to Australia: Darwin’s appointment is at sunset, on the beach of dreams

December 10, 2019 Sky Gilliam News, Travel No Comments

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I don’t remember seeing a color as full as the yellow of the sunset at Mindil Beach . You see it in this photo, made with a bad phone model among other things, and only slightly modified with Instagram filters. They look like fake colors, they are not. Mindil Beach, the beach of Darwin, in the Northern Territory . We are in the “Top End”, the Australian frontier place , the city of the tropics on the Timor Sea , the place where what we call “civilization” is a small place in a big world where nature commands, where to bathe there they are crocodiles and jellyfish and you should stay and watch.

The sunset of the sun here is a spectacle that enters the heart.

For at least three times in the nineteenth century the English tried to found a city up here, on top of the wild continent, in the land of the aboriginal population of the Larrakia, but all the outposts left in the hands of a handful of settlers did not last: too extreme to live here, even for pioneers. The first white community to live there permanently dates back to 1869, practically a breath of time ago. Then in 1974, at midnight on Christmas Eve, Darwin was literally swept away by Cyclone Tracy, The rest is made by crossing roads with new houses, a few shops, a few art galleries, and restaurants of various kinds (including souvlaki: the taxi driver shows them to me and says that I have to understand that everything I see here “is Greek gods”).

But already at that moment, as you walk the anonymous streets with the taxi, and in a completely unconscious way, there is something that begins to capture this place, an atmosphere. Something that tells you about the extreme border you had imagined. An absence of all that we are used to giving value that is transformed, step by step, into a powerful feeling of freedom . What then is what happens in Australia: it is useless to rationalize or explain, it is the energy of the earth that leads you back to it, it is the enormity of the space that enters your dreams and turns into a place of the soul.

Travel to Australia: to Uluru, the origin of the world

December 10, 2019 Sky Gilliam News, Travel No Comments

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If I had to imagine how to walk on the moon,” I thought, “it would be like walking on the land of Uluru .” The hard and the soft, the constancy and the change. Steps suspended in absolute silence on earth that looks like sand. I bend down to touch it, take a handful and under the red surface, it turns gray. The colors are still dark, there are only four, red and black, the first colors of the world, the sage green of spinifex bushes that draw grass rings on the flat earth, and the changing sky.

There in the east it is clearing. I’m standing with my feet firmly planted on the ground. An Aboriginal once told me: “They took everything from us, but as long as we have land we have everything . ” And here, at the origin of the world, I understand why. Stop, in a magic circle with the stars above, the infinite horizon around and the strength and heart of the planet under my feet.
Then in the uniform yellow horizon a beginning of redness marks the point where the day will decide to attest its presence. Then it rises lazily like a clear ball. It is the inevitability of the day, the certainty of life. The absolute strength. Light enters the eyes flat and conquers them in a total way, with a power that cannot be avoided. It is dawn at Uluru, the great sacred monolith in the heart of Australia .

For this dawn – which before arriving here I thought was the classic story shared with dozens of tourists with cameras – it is worthwhile to come up to here, it is really worth taking a flight from Italy, then another, and yet another, to descend and rush here, to an unknown place in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park , and wait for the oldest miracle to take place on the oldest land.

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