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    Munnar and surroundings

    21. november 2023, India ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Left on a quick field trip with Basil after my last day of work. Basil promised me he would take me to hug his cow, so he took me to his beutiful home in the mountains where they selfprovided as much as it was in their hands. Their aunt and uncle welcomed me with some food and chai and we got to explore the area around, visiting one of the longest hanging bridges in the world and driving around in Basil's motorbike. Afterwards, I wanted to see elephants (of course my only motivation where the animals), so we drove in the heavy rain (with plenty of techical stops), till a spot where elephants tended to go drink water every night. We waited there for almost five hours, until eventually the elephants arrived right before it got dark, a gorgeous family with two baby elephants and two adults. It gelt so magical. Afterwards we decided to drive to munnar to spend the night in a hostel, which I didn't lke cause we got woken up in the middle of the night to be told that they put us in the wrong room. Because of that and because I was feeling wxcited about going to Mysore and work on my asana practice, I decided to come back the next day with Basil and not stay longer and explore the area as I originally had planned. We drove around the area and did a bit of sightseeing of the beautiful tea plantations and green landscapes, and with a lot lot lot of water made it back to Kochi, where I would briefly stay to settle a few things I left open and find my way to Mysore.

    📍Essentials: drive on the area of Munnar, go see elephants in the river, hanging bridge in Basil's home, and definitely, hug a cow    Les mer

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    Loving Earth yoga studio
    Going to a festival with AnnaWe danced all night with these empowered women!Kathakali

    Kochi

    1. november 2023, India ⋅ 🌧 28 °C

    Soooooo... How to begin? I think from the very moment I stepped out of the plane I felt relaxed and at home (which is weird cause it was 3 am, no data, mo money, no atms, no idea of where I was going...) My taxi driver overwhelmed me with new malayalam words and random facts about kochi, which gave some warmth to my heart, and later on I arrived to this empty, smelly ajd dirty place that was (probably) my new home. Teaching at loving earth has been my favorite place to teach yoga so far, the community and the students were beautiful, and I got to try, explore, experiment and do and redo. I was teaching around 12 classes a week (which for a yoga teacher is a pretty crazy amount), and basically hanging out in the cafe, getting to know the loving earth crew, working on my masters, and having some social times with Bree and Edgar, their friends and family and my students. It was a shortsgort month that felt like a lifetime, and when time came to leave, well, I wasn't ready. But from some places you never are, right? Some of my magical small adventures were arriving to have three puppies, one of them, ting, died, which upset me a lot. Bree and Edgar got married (which was the wedding of the year, cause Edgar is a wealthy businessman from Kochi who owns the most renowned places) to which I contributed a lot (and yeah, set up the bar and made the cocktail menu), went to a festival with Anna and danced and laughed and felt love by indian mamas for a night long, went exploring with Farhan (pretty much the only times I would leave Fort Kochi), got really spoiled by the staff who always had some chocolate, cold beers or porottas when I needed them the most had some cute girly coffees with Poppy, had a failed attempt to try to be a tourist and did a tour to the backwaters (did not like it at all), and never stopped loving and thanking yoga. After that, decided to have a wild attempt and loose my flight to the Phillipines (where I was meeting Mario until he got sick and cancelled the trip) and headed to Mysore to learn from the gurus of Asthanga (but yeah, I don't even really like ashtanga). Best luck to my last stage of this part of the adventure!!

    📍Essentials: loving earth yoga (aerial as well), kathakali performance in kathakali center, visit a temple during a festival and enjoy and share with the locals, sunset coast walks, walk around pattalam, try a reflexology session with sree, shamanic breathwork (or more) with Bhumi and Dijo
    🍴Food: dosa with gee and sambal, idli, masala dosa, parotta (thats pretty much local's diet), parippu curry, puttu, appam, sri krishna cafe, ananthan vegetarian restaurant, tibetan's kitchen    Les mer

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    Bali Overview 🧘‍♀️🌀🪽

    13. oktober 2023, Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    🔖 Before you go:
    Accept that thwre will be a hittone of tourists.

    🤤 Best food:
    1. Gado Gado
    2. Tempeh goreng
    3. The nasi campur "kebabs"

    😏 Best places to go out:
    1. The Lair
    2. Meeting people in the hostel and hanging put in there (great chance to try local beer, arrak and jungle juice)

    🛌 Places to stay:
    1. Bamboo Jungle Huts
    2. WW backpakers

    📝 Must do:
    1. Yoga in one of the multiple yoga places (I personally liked radiantly alive, but yoga barn has aome interesting classes, but very full of "perfect yogis"
    2. Get a balinese massage
    3. See a traditional dance

    👁️Top attractions:
    1. Water Purification Temple
    2. Have a coconut or juice in a hidden cafe in the paddy fields
    3. Have a fancy vegan meal in one of the bougie restaurants with a view

    ✨Magical moments:
    1. Deep conversations with the cool people from the training
    2. Going for a walk with a dog that loved me and followed me around for two weeks for some reason (didn't even know her name)
    3. Finding a birthday gift under my pillow from Alda

    🔑Something this country taught me:
    To be more open to things that can't be explained through science

    ♻️Something I've had enough of:
    Tourists

    ⏳Something I will miss:
    The nice yoga clothes

    👣Leaving for next time:
    Papua and Borneo

    🎁To be remembered:
    The beautiful people I met in the aerial training    Les mer

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    Ubud (Bali)

    10. oktober 2023, Indonesia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    After a long while year living in Australia, I was due to Bali. And why Bali? It doesn't sound like my lind of poace as you could imagine... For Yoga! Came to do a training in Aerial Yogam arrived a few days earlier that I used to go to some nice yoga classes in town, work on my masters, create some content for the red cross, relax and enjoy doing nothing for a few days (and yes, get balinese massages). Out of the crouds of tourists its a cute island, very green and full of smiley and kind people. After that, my training was a really nice experiencez it wasn't up to my expectations to be honest im educational matter, but I still enjoyed the people I was learning with, being surrounded by yoga and slowing down and letting go. It was a pretty emotional and spiritual journey for me, to my surprise, that allowed me to enjoy being there in the moment and question myself in different aspects, allowing me to grief and express and share. On my lost path, I bumped into an opportunity to teach mat yoga and aerial in India, that I took with great excitement.

    📍Essentials: yoga barn and radiantly alive yoga classes, specifically handstand class of Dr Han, get a balinese massage, balinese traditional dance (I watched a Ramayana Ballet in the Sarawasti temple that was really interesting), shopping in the center, water purification ceremony, walk through the paddy fields
    🏠 Accommodation: Bamboo Jungle Huts (pretty far from the center but lovely owners (Sri and BumBum), breakfast included, all day coffee and pretty chill), WWbackpackers (a bit cold but nice instalations without them loosing Bali escense, breakfast and great location)
    🍴Food: Siboghana Warung (amazing, super cheap and veggie food), Udara (expensive but really nice indonesian ayurbedic food), Umami (this one is really expensive, but amazing sushi), Dicarik warung (really good food, diversity, quick, calm and amzing landscape), Plant Bistro (If you want real fancy western vegan)
    🍸 Night out: The Lair (hidden speakeasy vibe dungeon bar with amazing views of the jungle, so private and quiet, and amazing drinks offered as tarot cards)    Les mer

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    Outback overview 🐊🏜️🚌

    23. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

    🔖 Before you go:
    Set up your van for absolute nothingless. Get a jerry can full of gas, a couple full of water, if you're gonna get really off road get a satelyte phone, tools kit for the car and everything you need for survival

    🤤 Best food:
    1. Maria's homemade mash and veg
    2. Romi's spicy couscous
    3. Our so cute breakfast always different and slow

    😏 Best places to go out:
    1. Daily Waters Pub
    2. Exeter Hotel
    3. Hop on wine tastings in the wine areas in Adelaide

    🛌 Places to stay:
    1. Deep Creek Campground (big and beautiful sites in the middle of nature)
    2. Karlu Karlu Campground (right in the national park, amazing views and sunrise and sunset)
    2. G'day Caravan Park (very safe for Alice (not ideal to go out at night), very nice instalations)

    📝 Must do:
    1. Mala walk in Uluru
    2. Kings Canyon Rim Walk
    3. Ormiston Pound Walk

    👁️Top attractions:
    1. Uluru
    2. Waterfalls Litchfield National Park and Nitmiluk National Park
    3. Karlu Karlu sunset

    ✨Magical moments:
    1. Driving through roads full of nothing and singing as loud as we could the songs we loved for hours
    2. Meeting all the australian people in Daily Waters and hanging out with them
    3. Going to the lookout from the electrical tower with Liam

    🔑Something this country taught me:
    My capacity of surviving and overcomming situations that most people wouldn't there to even try

    ♻️Something I've had enough of:
    Sand flies

    ⏳Something I will miss:
    Having home everywhere you go

    👣Leaving for next time:
    Going on a 4w into the unpaved roads to discover the unknown of the area

    🎁To be remembered:
    The pleasure of being surrounded by nothingness    Les mer

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    Adelaide, 4500 km later

    22. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Last stop of our scoobydoo roadtrip across Australia. The feeling was such fulfilment and pride. We had driven across Australia, from top to bottom on a rusty van, just ourselves, and proved our self determination and strength. For me arriving to Adelaide was stressful, so many people, cars, buildings... i instantly missed the emptiness of the desert. But Adelaide is a beautiful city, felt like the most elegant and safe city in Australia (and imagine how high the standards were). We cleaned and reorganised to get ready to give the mystery machine back and went out to get a few drinks back in society. I think we were tired, mostly mentally and emotionally, it had been an intense 20 days with limited space and lots and lots of kilometers. We gave back the car the next morning, went to visit the central market, and let Romina go. After that I walked and walked around the city, visited the botanical garden and headed back to the airport. To my surprise, poor Romina had mixed up the flights and lost her flight, and we got to say goodbye one last time one more see you soon. And from there, it was time to say goodbye to Australia after so long. Until when, that's a completely different question.

    🍸Night out: malt and juniper (really nice variety of gin and whiskey), exeter hotel (really nice university/alternative vibe)
    🍴Food: central market    Les mer

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    Fleurieu Peninsula

    21. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Followed our wine tasting tour guide directions and drove to the coast of the McLaren Vale. We drove from Second Valley, to Rapid Bay and spent the night in Deep Creek, surrounded by kangaroos and beautiful fields. At night we made a fire (fun moment of the day) and enjoyed the warmth of our home bushfire. Next day, failed to go on the hike we were planning to because we needed a rest day to just write in our notebooks and enjoy some peace and quiet.

    🏠Accommodation: Deep Creek Campground
    📍Essentials: drive until deep creek, rapid bay, deep creek area    Les mer

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    Barrossa Valley

    20. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 10 °C

    Plan of the day was to go to as many wine tastings of the region as we could in a day. Reality, we went to the first one, had such a blast that left with two bottles on wine and left the day as it was. We went to this cute small winery where we got attended by this lovely guy with whom we exchanged so many travelling tips and ideas (he pretty much built the rest of our trip in the south). After that we drove through Adelaide hills to find somewhere to spend the night, and suffered the cold weather outside and the hard cooking conditions (Romi was a bit upset cause she couldn't manage to make a nice fried rice because the pot wouldn't heat enough because of the wind).

    📍Rockford Wines wine tasting (its free and pretty thorough), beautiful winery.    Les mer

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    Bumbunga Lake

    20. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

    Driving in south australia was a bit less fun because the speed limit was a bit lower and there were more cars on the road. Still stopped in a cute little town called crystal creek, had a lovely sweet breakfast and went down through bumbunga lake, a pink lake created from the combination of salt, seaweed and bacteria , towards the wine region near Adelaide.

    📍Essentials: bumbunga lake
    🏠Accommodation: jubilee park (free, right in the center and toilets, only con is that railway is just behind so its a bit noisy)
    🍴Food: Crystal Creek bakery    Les mer

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    Coober Pedy ⛏️

    18. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C

    Deep desert in our first stop in south australia. Coober Peddy is an interesting mining town full of interesting scrap every side of the road and underground homes, churches and museums. It was really really hot in here, lots of sand flies, and as dry as you could imagine with no water supplies. But it had its charm. We went for a quick visit to the opal museum, an art gallery, an underground serbian church visited the interesting croc harry home , a bizarre cave full of weird furniture, art and woman's underwear. We also went for an opal hunt in the area, and Romingot some opal! Then before setting off stopped for some waffles from a lovely funny scottish old men. And began our trip back to society.

    📍Essentials: Crocodyle Harry, find opal
    🍴Food: Waffles and Gems
    🏠 Accomodation: riba's underground campground (no water point though because water is soso scarce in coober peddy, but tv room is underground and has a kitchen and nice toilets), old timers mine (just a free spot to park but free/donation based)    Les mer

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    Uluru

    16. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 28 °C

    When I was 13 I wrote down on my budget list: watch sunrise from uluru. And clearly, I had no idea what that meant and I had to google it. Somehow it felt so magical to keep showing my kid self of how capable I was of turning all her dreams true and how brave and alive I was. Just on the drive you pass McConnor (Rominancalls it fuluru because it fools you making you believe you are seeing Uluru already), all surrounded by deep red sand. It was already magical. Watched sunset from a cute viewpoint from where we could see Kata Tjuta and stayed in a reallyreally expensive campsite (but guess whatz it was the only one in town). Walked arpund Uluru and joined a super interesting walk about the culture, tradition and history of the site. Later on did so many talks about the bushfood of the area, the tools, the plants, the cooking, even a didgeridoo workshop and an strology movie, and visited a few galleies. Yulara, the town where Uluru is located was so so touristy, but at the same time we made the most of it. Also did the typical sunrise from Uluru (pretty confusing though cause you really dont see it from there so I was so disappointed), and had to run away from crazy William, random japanese guy that kept finding us with sososo much energy.

    🔎Some facts: girls can't play didgeridoos because its against their culture (the story I got its that some dude from a tribe got all the ladies pregnant and then they cut his penis and turned it into the instrument, so if a girl plays it she'll get pregnant from him as well). Such a pity. Also didgeridoos are only from a certain small part of the northern territory, not all Australia. And they are used to invoque the spirits.
    📍Essentials: Mala guided walk, free workshops from the resort (bush talk, gardens talk, didjeridoos and yarn bush food), Kata Tjuta sunset
    🏠 Accommodation: Ayers Rock Caravan Park (only camping place in yulara, incredibly expensive but nice installations and central)    Les mer

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    Kings Canyon

    15. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Drove to the deep red canyon and bumped into some cammels for Romina's happiness. We hike, absolutely stunning, not too challenging and always walking on topnof the canyon so you had views from the landscape, the inside of the canyon and the other sides of the deep rock formation. Such an enjoyable day in such a special and peaceful spot. Qick tip, everyone recommended us to start really early because of the heat, the hike is not as tough as they say so if you start a bit later you skip all the crowds slightly.
    📍Essentials: Rim Canyon walk (6km and pretty easy)
    🏠 Accommodation: Salt Creek Rest area (free)    Les mer

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    MacDonell Ranges

    13. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    While visiting one of the galleries, we met a lovely american guy that had been living in Alice Springs for so many years, he recommended us to do this one trek which you had to swim through a river to finish (and there's where he got us). So we drove our way to the end of MacDonell Ranges, stopping in the beautiful Simpson Gap and enjoying the scenic views. Once we arrived to our destination, Ormiston Gorge, we set camp and went for our hike, which was absolutely stunning and yeah, we had to swim to finish. There were a lot of sand flies so we had pur first experience with what I call the condoms, and yes I laugh at everyone that wears them, so we could protect our selves from the thirsty flies that fly around you in hundreds and try to drink the water from your eyes (welcome to the desert friends). Had an uno game before setting to bed and next day woke up for sunrise of the ranges (you can also see that I've been depriving Romina her sleep), and drove to visit some other spots of the ranges such as the ochre pits and Stanley Chasms. This national park is, without a doubt, absolutely stunning. From there, drove as far as we could so we could set base close to our next destination, the red center.

    📍Essentials: Stanley Chasms, Ochre Pits, Ormiston Pound Walk (requires actual swimming on the way, a bit of chill climbing and lots of flies but crazy stunning and not too hard), Simpsons Gap
    🏠 Accommodation: Ormiston Gorge Campground sets a good base to visit the area    Les mer

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    Alice Springs

    12. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌬 23 °C

    Everyone warned us of how dangerous this city was. But to be honest, it just felt like another not so pretty city with a high percentage of aboriginals (and its alcohol consequences). We stayed in a nice cozy campsite close to the center, went to an average look out, visited some cute aboriginal art galleries and did some shopping. It was a good stop for a nice warm shower and to get a new phone for me (yeah, they never last).

    📍Essentials: visit some of the aboriginal art galleries, personally loved Yubu Napa
    🏠 Accommodation: G'day caravan park    Les mer

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    Devils Marbles

    11. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

    Drove for 5 hours not knowing if we would be able to pass the city of Tennants Creek and we'd have to go back. Luckily the fire was more controlled when we went through and we managed to continue until Karlu Karlu (Devils Marbles). The rock formations are so refined and neat that it looks like someone put those oval-shaped sandstone there. We went to watch sunset from the lookout and went back to get some food and watch the stars. Next morning I woke up (and Romi tried) to watch the beautiful sunrise and then went for a run around the area.

    🏠Accommodation: Karlu Karlu campground (prebook online)
    📍Essentials: sunset, sunrise, and walk around the formations choosing any of the established walks (or even run like I did)    Les mer

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    Daily Waters

    10. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    Life music, large vafiety of aussie tap beer, lots of random abandoned vehiacles of all kindsz bras and shoes hanging everywhere, and mostly such a good vibe. Came to this town-pub where all roadtrippers stop and had such good fun with all this people that we met, all in different journeys and paths (but all of them, realreal ozs). Sang, danced, shared, laughued (even cried a bit). And the next day... made our way to the next stop not knowing if we'd make it, not only because of pur big hangover, but because there was a bigbig fire in tennants creek that might stop our way and make us change our idea of a trip.

    📍Essentials: Daily Waters Pub (offers campsite accomodation as well), such a fun and authentic place    Les mer

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    Mataranka

    10. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    The beautiful turquoise water quickly attacks you into these clear hot springs for some hot northern weather. We swam and swam againts the current (always trying to do the opposite as everyone else), Romi fell out of a tree into the river (exacly the same the same thing that had happened to me in Litchfield, yes we need to accept that we are not as stable as the trees we're playing with), walked a bit around, visited the we of the never never (famous australian novel about the aboriginals of the area) and we went on the search fo crocodiles, and we spotted one right under us!! And... crazy thing happened. First Romina bumped into a friend that she had met in the frog (Hobart). And then, minutes later... we bumped into Ricardo and Kayo! This italian guy and japanese girl that we lived with in Hobart as well! Such a magical moment.

    📍Essentials: We of the never never and bittwr hot springs
    🏠Accommodation: Sterling Mill Rest Area (free)    Les mer

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    Nitmiluk National Park

    9. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌬 29 °C

    Second stop of the trip. Beautiful Nitmiluk National Park (also known as Katherine). We first stopped in Edith Falls and did a small and smooth walk around, had some breakfast in town the next day and did the butterfly loop to visit the gorges. Beautiful deep canyon, but also really hot!

    📍Essentials: butterfly loop, katherine gorge, Edith Falls (do whole walk to visit higher gorge)
    🏠 Accommodation: king river rest area (free)    Les mer

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    Litchfield National Park

    6. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

    First stop of our roadtrip: Litchfield National Park. With its beautiful grand waterfalls and lovely treks you could mingle around the area for a week. We went for a sundet hike to greenant water hole (yes, there where plenty of green ants on the way), swam in every waterfall we found

    📍Essentials: Wangi falls and Florence falls are absolutely stunning, greenant trek, termite mounds
    🏠 Accommodation: book in advance one of the campsites of the national park (no connection in the park and closest free campsite is an hour drive away)
    🧐 Some facts: if you lick a greenant's ass (yes, the green butt), it tastes like lemon. There's even a gin they make in North Queensland with greenants infused on it because of their citrus taste.    Les mer

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    Darwin

    6. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

    Flew to the highest end on the center (what they call the top end) to begin a van roadrip through the outback with Romina (my closest friend since we met in Hobart). I got there a few days earlier to visit the area and sort out everything that was needed. After the relax and confort in the east, the only hostel of the city was a big ugly party hostel that made me have to escape for as long as I couldn't keep my eyes open from the place. So I went market hopping, walked and walked the city, visited the art gallery and museum of Darwin and some other aboriginal galleries. Darwin was a big shock for me, because it wasn't like the clean and white country that you are sold in the east, Darwin was dirty, with a really high population of aboriginals (living in really bad conditions, lots of drug and alcohol problems, mental diseases, commiting a high rate of crime and homeless). It never felt unsafe (at least to the level of other countries outside of happy-safe australia), but it was sad and indeed gave you a lot to think of. On this visit I also met Liam, a realreal australian guy that liked to haunt crocodiles with who I had lots of fun and he took me to a beautiful lookout of the area of Darwin. After that, got all the preparations ready for what it would be the longest short cut existing! Picked up Romina from the airport, and was ready to set off towards the real australian world, the outback.

    📍Essentials: local market hopping on the weekends, walk the waterfront    Les mer

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    Queensland overview 🌄🐊🏃🏽‍♀️

    1. september 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    🔖 Before you go:
    Organise yourself to go during dry season to avoid the crazy high temperatures, the rain, floads and deadly animals. Inform yourself about the dangerous species such as the cone shell, crocodiles and where they are, sharks (when can you swim), jelly fish, snakes, spiders, toads...

    🤤 Best food:
    1. Pasta nights with the girls
    2. Jay's specials (crocodrile cob loaf, linguini or pulled lamb risotto)
    3. La tabella trattoria (the arancini balls are amazing)

    😏 Best places to go out:
    1. Paddy's (Airlie Beach)
    2. Beach duffs
    3. Fire in the boathouse

    🛌 Places to stay:
    1. Selina Hostel (absolutely amazing in all ways, so chill and inviting to relax with plenty of cool free activities, nice vibe and beautiful instalations)
    2. Crocodylus (inside of the Daintree, completely minimalistic and pure)
    2. Mumma's Hostel (great location, beautiful and chill)

    📝 Must do:
    1. Sailing boat in the whitsundays (Broomstick)
    2. Diving in the Great Barrier Reef
    3. See wildlife (koalas, cassoaries, crocodriles, sharks...)

    👁️Top attractions:
    1. Great Barrier Reef (either from the sky, water or boat)
    2. Forts walk to spot koalas
    3. Daintree long hike behind discovery center

    ✨Magical moments:
    1. Crocodrile spotting with Jay
    2. Daintree adventure with Cas (and Itamar whenever he appeared)
    3. Guitar night under the stars in the boat with Otto

    🔑Something this country taught me:
    How hard it is to adjust to a place when you're not ready to leave the one behind.

    ♻️Something I've had enough of:
    Frozen daiquiris

    ⏳Something I will miss:
    Sunset runs in Cape G

    👣Leaving for next time:
    Spotting a dugong

    🎁To be remembered:
    The fishing shirts and the mullets look (with the oz accent and mate in every sentence)    Les mer

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    Cairns

    1. september 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Used Cairns mostly as a base and didn't really got to visit the town. Changed hostels so much and took the opportunity to go diving in the great barrier reef (what a beautiful once in a lifetime experience). On our way back from the diving-snorkeling tour stayed in the waterfront with Cass and enjoyed a beautiful aboriginal art representation that made me drop a few tears. Maybe the city itself wasn't my highlight, but the region, the people and the experiences were indeed absolutely worth a trip.

    📍Essentials: dive in the outer reef (great Barrier Reef)
    🏠 Mumma hostel: nice, clean and chill but only stayed here for a night and didn't get to live the place too much. Good location as well. Also stayed in paradise oasis but there was no breakfast, pretty far from the center and zero social but it was a beautiful space    Les mer

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    Kuranda

    31. august 2023, Australia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Came to this cute hippy alternative town with Cass on the bus (the train was very expensive because its a tourist attraction). Bumped into a girl from my boat tour that joined us for the day, and we walked around the cute market, went for a walk around town and relaxed and enjoyed the colours of the streets. Such a cute little town. After here Cass was taking her flight so it was a sad but wholesome goodbye with some swiss chocolate, a cow postcard and so much gratitude.Les mer

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    Daintree Rainforest

    28. august 2023, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    Rented a car with Cass (swiss girl that I met in Magnetic Island, and gave me a really cool vibe so decided to ask her to join me on a quick adventure to the daintree). Drove from Cairns to the Daintree Rainforest (oldest ecosystem in the world) where we stayed in this beautiful cozy and basic place where some of my friends had done a workaway before (Anna from Tazzie and also the english girls from CapeG). Just the drive was absolutely stunning, and then we did a hike that was closed (so it was amazing because it was unsigned and wild (which is hard to find in Australia), had some icecream with some local products, got wet (cause yeh, its a rainforest), went to a few viewpoints, did a few short walks, swam in a gorge, visited the beach, and just enjoyed this magical place. We also bumped into Itamar, who we had met in our hostel in Magnetic island, and he joined us for part of the trip. It was a beautiful trip, enjoyed soso much the company of Cass and getting to know her, who was such a unique soul, and got to visit this special spot on earth, saw lots of weird and cool plants and animals, and spotted cassoaries!

    📍Essentials: Cow beach, long walk behing Daintree center, Drive from Cairns to Cape Tribulation
    🏠 Accomodation: Crocadylus
    🔎 Some Facts: did you know that Captain Cook discovered Australia from this side? The dutch had arrived to Australia first, but they got from the west and thought it was China (and a bit of useless land because of how desertic it was). He arrived from Cape York and discovered all the area around Cape Tribulation, which was pretty much the beginning of the end of this beautiful land.    Les mer

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    Magnetic Island 🐨

    24. august 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌬 24 °C

    Left the girls vety early inbthe morning after our night out (yes, it was a hardhard morning) to jump on a bus and a ferry towards Magnetic Island, the area with a higher concentration of koalas in Australia (and clearly the world as well). I've always loved islands, so it was easy to feel nice and relaxed quickly. In the bus on the way to the hostel I met Cass, a lovely swiss girl with a beautiful smile and soon we got to a gorgeous relaxing hostel where I would stay for the following days. Here I went to see sunset, fed beautiful colourful birds, went on a hike to spot koalas (twice actually cause I only saw one the first time), walked across beautiful islands and re-met my canarian friend Otto there, had a salsa class, did some yoga, relaxed and read, went to a small market, made friends with the spanish crew from the hostel and walked and walked. Met a few nice people (lots of islaelies), and went to a beach duff with Itamar (a very nice and interesting islaeli guy, to whom I made go barefoot with me and he hated me for) and the germans and Otto. After that, I decided to ask Cass if she wanted to go for an adventure to the daintree and sleep there with me, so that was my next step.
    🏠 Accommodation: Selina hostel (beautiful hostel, feels like a resort with lots of activities such as yoga, bird feeding, sunset, social hour with a free cocktail, beautiful swimming pool and kitchen and relaxed atmosphere)
    📍Essentials: Forts walk to sight koalas, Florence Bay
    🔎 Some facts: most koalas have chlamydia, and will eventually die from it.    Les mer

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    Whitsundays Islands

    21. august 2023, Great Barrier Reef ⋅ 🌬 22 °C

    Original plan was to be picked up right after my last day at work to go on a boat adventure with Liv and G (the lovely english girls) and drive to Darwin from there. The thing was that... Maxi, the car they bought from french (and human) Max wasn't the best (never ever buy a car from a backpacker please), so plans changed a bit. The girls flew to Proserpine for a few days after my disappointment on them not enjoying their time in Australia because of a car. Jay drove us to the boat and we started this beautiful jorney together. Water cristal blue, green untouched islands, sky strong and hot but matching the landscape and strong wint taking us to the most paradisiac destinations. Visited Whitehaven (considered one of the most beautiful beaches in the world), snorkeled in the reef, saw a few whales (I struggled a bit with that part) and big green turtles, hiked a bit some islands, admired how the crew sailed with the boat and ate and relaxed as a queen. The boat group was pretty nice, got along really well with a canarian guy called Otto, with whom we sang and remembered the best spanish hits that created such a nice night with the guitar and so much talent. After tons of sunscreen and excitement, came back to land (the world was moving for a while) had dinner with everyone in a rather disappointing venue and had a few drinks until my eyes couldn't stay open any more. Next morning gave a bigbig hug to my girls and jumped on a bus to my next advenure.

    📍Essentials: Broomstick 3 days Sailing tour, Whitehaven beach, Inlet lookout, snorkel in the great barrier reef, Langford Island
    🏠 Accommodation: Broomstick boat
    🔎 Some facts: Last movie of Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed in Whitehaven beach (when he finds the hearts treasure chest), but the beach had no palm treas so they planted hundreds of them just for the movie and after filming planted them in Airlie Beach (that's where the waterfront palm trees come from).    Les mer

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