The best way to end your day in Darwin is a visit to the popular Mindil Beach Sunset Market. Sunset lovers won’t want to miss this. Check out the sunset time of the day to make sure you catch the magnificent golden sun set in the horizon across Mindil Beach. Sunset during the dry season…
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Northern Territory: Of Termite Mounds & Falls
On the 4th day in the Top End of the Northern Territory before we flew back to Singapore in the afternoon, we still had time for a morning jaunt to Litchfield National Park. Litchfield National Park Litchfield National Park is 1 ½-hr drive from Darwin. The monsoonal rainforest, intriguing rock formations, huge termite mounds, magnificent…
Kakadu National Park: Ancient Aboriginal Rock Drawings
Step back in time as you enter Aboriginal rock shelters and rock art galleries in the Nourlangie region of Kakadu National Park. Be awestruck with stunning Aboriginal rock drawings as you hike along a 1.5-km circular walk around the ancient art sites. History is literally at your feet. The Aboriginal people still live in Kakadu…
Kakadu National Park: World Famous Yellow Water Billabong
The world’s famous Yellow Water Billabong – Kakadu’s World Heritage wetlands – are abounding with a diversity of birdlife, wildlife and rich vegetations. The Yellow Water land-locked billabong forms part of the South Alligator River floodplain and has long been the Aboriginal people’s important food gathering area. The great white egret taking flight off the…
Arriving Kakadu National Park
The driving journey from Darwin to Kakadu National Park takes about 3-hr and in between we took the Spectacular Jumping Crocodile Cruise on Adelaide River. The ultimate destination of the day was Kakadu National Park, a World Heritage listed site that covers a huge area of 19,000 km2, almost twice the size of Switzerland. It…
Spectacular Jumping Crocodile Cruise
Things to do on the way to Kakadu You don’t always come across a river infested with crocodiles do you? Let alone to mention one that leaps high out of water. Home to over 1,600-strong congregation of crocs, the thought of cruising along the Adelaide River had struck me uneven for sometime before I decided…
Darwin Day 1
Darwin, the capital city of Northern Territory, serves as a gateway to explore the Top End’s attractions and immense in world-class Aboriginal art sites. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Within a stone’s throw away from the city centre, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory is home to a broad…
Penguin Parade @Phillip Island
The main highlight of the Phillip island tour with Gray Line is to watch the world’s famous Penguin Parade – where the world’s smallest penguins emerge from the ocean and waddle across the beach to return home in the sand dune burrows at sunset. The Summerland Beach is where we can watch the Little Penguins…
Malaysia Top List
I have been visiting Malaysia many times a year since childhood, to different parts of the country for food, sights, shopping and family visits. This is a list of things to do in Malaysia: 1. Cuisine / Culinary / Food / Fine Dining / Street Food / A trip to Malaysia is synonymous with a…
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Part of our Gray Line tour package includes a short visit to Churchill Island Heritage Farm that’s accessible by a vehicular bridge from Phillip Island. The picturesque farm boasts lush green garden surroundings with clydesdale horses, sheep, peacocks, ducks, chickens and highland cattle that we didn’t come across when we were in the Scottish Highlands….
