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I have serious wanderlust right now. I am longing to travel somewhere different, somewhere far away, to see new cultures and foods and have new experiences... what is your most memorable once-in-a-lifetime travel destination and why?
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I haven't left the house in months, lmao.
I'm broke, and my health has been too bad for the last five years to go anywhere, or even leave my room.
If I could choose to go anywhere, like say, in a perfect and immortal body, I'd choose Hawaii or Bora Bora. I've never been anywhere like that, and I'm digging that tropical paradise vibe..
ReplyAh sorry to hear that. Money to travel is an issue for me too. I'd also love to go somewhere like that, I've never been to a tropical beach location either! I'd like to experience Hawaii, or maybe somewhere like Indonesia or the Philippines...
ReplyYes, Indonesia and the Philippines are also beautiful, from the pictures I've seen.
ReplyI live in Australia and have lived in three states and travelled around. Six years ago I went to Darwin at the top of Australia for the first time. The weather is always hot or warm there and there are only three seasons: the wet, the dry, and the suicide season. The wet is very high humidity, the dry is low humidity, and the suicide is when the people who can't stand the high humidity kill themselves. The first place I went while there was to the open air public swimming pool. The pool has a machine in it that makes waves. There are waves for about twenty minutes and then a hooter sounds and the water is flat for that long again and then the hooter and then waves again. While at the pool I made friends with a woman (I am a woman) who was from Melbourne in Australia and she and I talked to each other for ages. After the pool I cashed in a scratchie that I had bought and found that I had won $50.00. That night I went to the casino and had fish and salad for my tea.
I had booked a bus tour to Kakadoo which is in the outback and went on a boat ride in a billabong which is a huge pool of water that a river has left when it turns in another direction. Darwin and its surroundings has crocodiles everywhere. I saw one on the ground beside the billabong as we went along. I also went to an Aboriginal museum and that was quite interesting. We went from the bus to see rocks that had Aboriginal paintings on them and saw the drawing of a female cannibal spirit among other paintings.
I stayed in a place on the main street of Darwin and a girl said hello to me so I asked her did she know me from Perth where I lived. She said she didn't but was being friendly. So she was another friend I made and her name was Carolyne. She had her two young children with her and had caught a train from Brisbane because she was on the run from a violent boyfriend. We spent a fair bit of time hanging out together. The woman I met at the pool was Diane and she was there having a holiday with her daughter and son in law.
The place next door to where I stayed was a back packer's holiday hostel and there were French young male guys there so I got to talking with them just to listen to them speaking in English with their sexy French accents. Further along the same street there was a reptile zoo where I fed a crocodile with a stick with a string on it that had a lamb's heart on it. One of the crocodiles went for me but it was behind a thick perplex fence and the croc wasn't very big. It was big enough to bite and I was told it could have jumped the fence if it tried.
Another thing I did was go to the Museum where there was an absolutely enormous stuffed crocodile called Sweetheart. This croc had been caught in the sea and taken miles away because it was too big to be anywhere near people. It came back and was taken away again and and returned again so it was killed and put into the museum. There was also news in the museum about cyclone Tracy which in 1974 smashed most of Darwin, and also Darwin was bombed by the Japanese in the second world war.
There is a tour bus that goes around Darwin and I went on that to see the sights including where the English Queen stayed when she was there and there parliament house which looks like an upside down wedding cake with fruit and nuts inside. The fruit and nuts being the politicians. On the bus I wore a purple dress and purple wide brimmed hat so the driver (Tristan) called me 'the purple flash'. Another place I went was to the movies where I saw 'The jungle book' I think it was called. There were two separate car crashes in the car park where I stayed. I was lucky with the weather because it was only 31 degrees with low humidity. I went shopping and bought some clothes including a top that was reduced from $100 to $30 and I wore it over my bathers to swim in at the pool. I told Diane and she was shocked that I wore an expensive top to swim in but I had forgotten mine and bought that one on the way. There was a pool where I stayed and it was there that Carolyne introduced me to her male friend. Also at the pool I made friends with a man called Ben who was from South Australia and had found work in Darwin. Anyway, I was in Darwin for four and a half days all up. I recommend to anyone to travel there alone because they will make plenty of friends while there. Well, I did anyway. Before I close I must tell you that before I was there there was a man who kept a crocodile as a pet in a large cage in his backyard. The croc escaped and went into the cbd and into the supermarket there. Maybe it wanted to do some shopping. The reptile people were called to take it away. They should have filmed it and made an advertisement for the store saying that 'the store is so good even the local crocodiles shop here.'
ReplyI've been to Australia before! Never to Darwin though. It sounds amazing, maybe I should visit sometime! My personal favourites from the trip were snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, seeing the fairy penguins on Phillip Island, and experiencing Aboriginal culture in the red centre.
I'm also female and would love to try solo travel; I'd just need to find somewhere that's both affordable and safe. But it's something on my bucket list!
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