Kakadu National Park

The Kakadu National Park is the largest one in Australia and is approximately the size of Israel. It's famous as an Aboriginal art site. So our first stop was at Ubirr with a large amount of ancient paintings dating back more than 5000 years. There we met a German guy who comes from a small village just about half an hour away from Bad Waldsee, my hometown. The world really is a village... We spent the afternoon at a waterhole looking for crocs and we were finally successful but unfortunately it was too far away to get a good picture. For the night we stayed at a campground which was crazy crowded with mosquitos. I've never seen so many of them, they were crawling inside the car through the smallest possible spaces!
After a restless night we were glad about the dawn and a bit of relief from the horrors of the night. First we did some walks, then we participated in a cooking masterclass. It was made by an indigenous chef with local ingredients, so we could taste some barramundi fish with lemon myrtle. Afterwards we cooled off at a pool and then went early to a campground to set up our tent so we can finally get a good rest again. And it worked pretty good!
So we were ready for the third and final day in the park which we spent with traditional weaving, Aboriginal arts and tasting ground-oven cooked turtle. An interesting experience!Les mer