Travel Forum / Destinations / Australia and NZ / April 2006

As a seasoned traveller who has toured most parts of Australia in a
campervan, I'd like to present a slightly different viewpoint on travel
in this wonderful country.
I'm a cartoonist, and as a result of my travels, I came up with a

Join the resistance!!!!
Do you want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent,
united action.
Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than

You can post your advert to BUY/SELL your campervan under
 http://campervan4sale.com/
this is a free service to yous ... all entries are REDACTED BY HAND,
there is NO SPAM... yey!  So please come and have a look and if

Ok folsk, planning my 08 holiday. I have always wanted to do the Indian Pac
to Perth from Adelaide. Some one said that the rolling stock was old. Other
option is the Ghan all the way to Darwin. Really can't do both unless I win
the lottery.

Hi Im ABout to start and will keep you all informed. If anyone else has
experience of Wwoof ing in NZ post something this group needs something
for this year.

I collect entry and exit stamps from all over the world. Would anybody mind
sending me scans of their passport stamps? I am only interested in the
stamps, no personal data. Please send them direct to my email at
zaenkert@web.de Thank you. M.Z.

My idea is to invite you to my country - CHILE - here we have many
activities to do, ski, rafting, volcanoes climbing, trekking (Atacama
desert, Los Andes Mountains, Chilean Altiplano... etc.)
I have a small tourist business, you can see my web page at

Sick of paying a fortune for petrol?  There is a SIMPLE solution.  Oil
companies and petrol suppliers are colluding to form a monopoly.  To
fight back, all that consumers need to do is to act as one.
The following information holds the key to never paying more than 80

For anyone looking for pics of some of the things you can see and do whilst
staying in the Cairns area, I have considerably updated my pictures page
for this area.
It now features pictures from Hartley's Creek, Wildworld, Green Island and

I would like to visit Australia this August with my partner and 3 kids
aged 8,9,13. My problem is that I am overwhelmed with
possibilities.After some initial research and discussion with kids we
have decided that we want to visit Uluru and have a beach and

My wife and I are in the process of costing out a proposed "Round the
World" Trip, flying westward from the UK.
One of the places we want to visit is Tahiti.  Whilst I realize it is
a very expensive place to stay, the airport transfers to Papeete

For whatever reason, there are more and more people digging their heels
in, throwing the towel in and taking a year off to travel. So, I've
compiled a few stops one must make to be able to return home and
proudly say "I did it"

Sad to report another person has died after leaving her
broken down vehicle in a fairly remote area of WA.
Her two companions who stayed with the vehicle were
rescued on Sunday, she was found about 4kms from the

Hello, all!
I'm planning a trip mid-late NOV. I have a brain and I've researched
transportation, entertainment and lodging carefully. But one thing I
cannot find is average costs of average stuff. I'm an American, so my

So i hear about New Zealand, if so, how does one stay for good ? :)