Monthly Archive: June 2014
Sydney’s Featherdale Wildlife Park
Author: samanthaenroute June 27, 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Today was probably one of the best parts of Sydney: visiting an Australian animal petting zoo! Featherdale Wildlife Park is a small sanctuary when people can get up close and personal with koalas, kangaroos, wallabies…
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Ocean Views Around Sydney
Author: samanthaenroute June 27, 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia We took a hike to Barrenjoey Lighthouse near Sydney today. As you can see it was a gorgeous day while we huffed and puffed our way up a very steep hill. However, as always, the…
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Sydney’s Taronga Zoo
Author: samanthaenroute June 25, 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Today we visited one of the best zoos I’ve ever seen, Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. It’s located outside of the city but a simple ferry ride from the harbor took us right to the entrance….
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Sydney Opera House Tour and Harbour Bridge
Author: samanthaenroute June 24, 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Today we toured the gorgeous Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. I was so excited about seeing the heart of city since it’s one of the most famous buildings in the world. In fact, our…
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Blue Mountains, Sydney, Australia
Author: samanthaenroute June 23, 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Katoomba and Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia Today we started our week in Sydney. We were very sad to leave Melbourne, especially since we’re just getting to know our cousins that we hadn’t seen…
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Sovereign Hill, Otway Park, & Great Ocean Road
Author: samanthaenroute June 17, 2014
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia This past weekend was absolutely amazing! Our cousins took us to Sovereign Hill (an old gold mining town in Ballarat, Victoria), Otway Park where we walked among the tree tops, and a…
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Australia, Ballarat, Great Ocean Road, Melbourne
Melbourne: Market and Hosier Lane
Author: samanthaenroute June 14, 2014
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Yesterday my sister and I ventured on our own into the city. We wanted to check out more of Queen Victoria Market and Hosier Lane and just walk around the city center for a little bit. We…
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Melbourne: The City and Parks
Author: samanthaenroute June 11, 2014
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia These past couple days we got to spend some time in the city center of Melbourne! It’s a beautiful city that’s just big enough to have lots to do but small enough to not be overwhelming. We…
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Amazing Weekend at Altina Wildlife Park
Author: samanthaenroute June 8, 2014
Griffith, New South Wales, Australia This past weekend was AMAZING!! We hopped in the car and drove five hours from Melbourne to Altina Wildlife Park in Griffith in New South Wales, run by one of our cousins. A sanctuary for…
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Australia, Griffith, Melbourne
Nature Day around Melbourne
Author: samanthaenroute June 6, 2014
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia Yesterday my cousin N, whom I hadn’t seen since we were kids in India, took my sister and I out to the Malaysian restaurant Omah’s in the nearby town of Hawthorne. He had been…
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