My Australia Trip
Hello, you are about to read my trip to Australie, I did my internship in JA Travel, and I put a lot of efforts for this blog, so I have to ‘blog’ all my trips here .
My trip to Australia took place on 08 May 2009 (yeah, it’s like months ago) but it’s never too late of sharing experience, isn’t it? The cities that I went to: Melbourne, Sydney and Gold Coast. And I’ll be writing them separately, because I want to share as much as possible.
When I first stepped out from Tulamarine (Melbourne’s airport) and I thought everybody was smoking, but it was actually fog that came out from people’s breathe. It was really cold. That was the first thing that caught my intention. The second one, YELLOW CAB! Hahaha, yeah, I always saw it in the TV, and “I am so gonna take picture with it”.
The flight landed early in the morning, and first thing to do was to throw the lugage in to the hotel room and explore the city. Let me tell you what I found in this beautiful, calm and cold city.
1. Queen Victoria Market
In this market, you can’t find a single thing that has ‘made in china’ on it. Most places in this city operate really early in the morning, of course, this market too. So, if you happen to go there, make sure you don’t spend much time on your bed. Best impression that I got from this place: I tasted the finest and freshest foods that originally produce from Melbourne.
2. Federal Square
This is the place where we were told as ‘hang out’ place. Most people sit down by the river and chit chat. The visitor centre is also located here. Thing to say: from this area, you can see almost all the interesting building in Melbourne.
3. Eureka Skydeck 88
It’s the tallest building with observation deck and with 360 degree views of Melbourne and the worlds only EDGE experience. I was so excited before I stepped in to this building. And when part of this building moved out from the building (so-called EDGE) I started to worried, every side of the room was made of glass and I could see the view clearly, I didn’t dare to look down, simply because I was 88 storeys high!
4. Dockland Park
Nice coffee with interesting architectural building and views. There are a lot of boats too by the river. I saw some jelly fish too (scary huh). It’s really a place to take nice pictures, wait, did I mention that the Fish ‘n Chips is really special? J
5. Melbourne Zoo and Aquarium
I was hoping to see Koala and Kangaroo on the road before I landed in Australia. But I didn’t see any and I was desperate, so I went to the zoo. But it was kinda disapponting, I saw only two koala in the zoo and few kangaroos and I couldn’t land my hand on them.
Buildings, bridges and transports got my attentions too. I took a lot of picture with these interesting objects. Because they were simply new to me, and we can’t find any in our hometown.
Last but not least, living cost (sounds weird huh, we don’t live here, so let’s call it Traveling Cost). The hotel that i stayed was Vibe Hotel, a real good deal hotel. Check with JA Travel to find out more about the cost. Woo hoo!
