Monday, 7 January 2008

KAKADU NATIONAL PARK

Heyy!

Here we are in Kakadu National Park!!!

If you´re sick of all the desert you can find in Australia, go up north and find one of the greenest places ever! Kakadu NP has quite a few options: IF YOU CAN (due to the almost unbearable heat) go up the hills, watch some birds, walk into the eucalyptus forest, watch amazing sunsets and new species of animals, do a river cruise, relax and enjoy the beautiful (almost) untouched nature and the silence! Additionally, you can learn a lot about aboriginal culture, their way of life and try to understand their world a bit better by visiting the best cultural centre I've ever seen in the middle of the park.

Some hiking tracks (we could only explore the shortest ones, because after 1 hour you almost die of thirst, heat and sweat) lead you directly to several thousand year old aboriginal arts - a very impressive experience, especially when you try to understand aboriginal anxient stories written on little information blocks.

I already mentioned the hut we booked for the one night we spent in the park - it was sooo nice!!! If it wouldn´t be so extremely hot during the day I could live there! Best thing about it: You could look through it when you were inside and e.g. watch animals before falling asleep. Also, you can look into the hut when it is dark outside and you have the lights on inside - but there was only one family besides us in the entire park, and the ranger - so, no worries mate ;-)

I have to say: Even though we had a lot of plans, stops and quite a tight schedule, everything worked out, nothing happened and it could not have been a better trip!!

Thank you Andi for being such a good travel mate - I had a lot of fun during this beautiful trip!!

I am already looking forward to post the story of my roadtrip with Andi and Faris! It was such a cool trip too!

Hope to see you all soon!
Stephanie

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