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Arriving in LA... and trying to depart from LA...
Down town Los Angeles... LAX (Los Angeles International Airport). At the end of my trip... trying to board the plane with triple the carry on's I'm allowed... They let me keep the trolley up to the boarding door, and at the plane, they took half of my...
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Melbourne _ city walk
There's good things to cable cars, ... and things not so good... Poor babies... they were freezing under the pouring rain... I found new buddies!!! They're kinda "flat" but very nice... In the first picture, look at the 3rd guy behind me: he's getting...
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Tikehau _ Map & Airport & Hotel
Tikehau is an atoll. It's a pretty small one considering that it's diameter is 26km. The main Motu is the "Motu Tuherahera". From whant I remember, it was like... 2km x 800m. On one side, there's the lagoon. Then you walk 800m and you see the Ocean. Believe...
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Our Appartment
Above: the appartment we shared for 4 months. "We" as in "Aude, Mathieu, Sebastien and I". 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms were just perfect for us. The rent was a weekly duty... 650 AUD per week; EVERY week... lol And here (above) is Mathieu, enjoying a VB after...
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Darwin _ Kakadu _ Yellow water cruise
First, we had such a short night ahead of us that we decided to save a bit and sleep in the car (in Kakadu)... Then we woke up at 5am... ...and we got on a litte boat for the "Yellow water Sunrise cruise" on Alligator River... ...breath taking... And...
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Nights out...
At PF Chang's... Desert rolls! Yo! West coast! Dinner at Joe's Crab Shack... Thanks Joana, it was very nice!!! When it's your b-day at Joe's, they dress u up with funny things and everybody sings!!! And... everybody decided it was my birthday! (it sure...
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Moorea _ Map, view and friends
Moorea is a 30min boat ride from Tahiti. The marina is in Vaiare (on the right), it's the only place the boat can go through the coral barier. The main city is Maharepa. We stayed at a friend's house in Cook's Bay. The MOST AMAZING beach in Moorea is...
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Red Centre_Alice Springs
Any doubts yet on why it's called the "red centre"?... While walking around the city, we have met some wonderful people who... save kangaroos! They have a permit ro raise orphans until the age of 2, when they are released in liberty. This baby was about...
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Arriving in Rarotonga
Rarotonga is the main island of the Cook Islands (British Polynesia). This is a map of Rarotonga. We stayed at Vara's beach house. They have a huge property and rent houses. On the map it's on the lower right side. We have spent one week on this island....
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Nadi first time
"BULA" means "Hello! Welcome!". They use it everywhere, everytime... as you will see in the pictures a bit later... We've had dinner at the Sheraton. The first picture shows a fresh and warm garlic-parmesan bread... Then the meals were great, and so were...
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Adelaide _ Dinner
We have spent about 12 hours in Adelaide. We arrived around 6pm, rented a car, and drove around until 6am when we had to catch a flight to Melbourne. We had dinner in a chinese "barbecue" thing. You could get anything you want (raw) from a buffet (fich,...
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Red Centre_Alice Springs Reptile Centre
It belongs to the "blue tongue" family. Meaning: it doesn't bite. Plus, it looks just like a snake even though it's a lezard: the only weapon nature gave him... This one has a tail just like its head. Indeed, when danger is around, it bends (head to tail)...
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Queenstown
Skiing in NZ is very diffrent from skiing in France. You go to the city you prefer: for us it's been Queenstown (it's said THE place to be in winter... and yes, it was full of party animals... lol). Then, when you want to ski, you have to take your car...
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Darwin _ Top End
Douglas Hot Springs. This tiny river you see is 40°C (105°F). It comes out fron the ground. There's also a lake that's about 35°C... it feels like getting into a gigantic bath tub! Litchfield National Park, with its Termite Mounds, water holes (Walter...
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Cruise to Malolo Island and back (5 days later)
Below, the Island in the middle is Tom Hank's Island, from the movie Castaway (Seul au Monde). The film has been filmed there... Getting off the big boat, on the little boat, in order to get to our hotel on Malolo Island... Our luggage, on the little...
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Darwin _ Monopoly
Wanna play some Monopoly? Given that we were leaving Australia 2 weeks later, we had to transfer all our money to our French accounts that had the Visa cards. The fastest way to do it was to send cash through a telegraphic transfer. But... to get all...
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Landing in Australia
Many hours of flight later, I could finally see some piece of earth again! Sydney, as my "temporary final destination"! I have arrived on March the 7th (2006), and I have lived in Australia until July the 20th. Soooo not enough.... and definitely need...
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Canberra... The War Museum
The Wall of Fame... Honor to the dead... Vietnam, WWI, WWII, Korea... etc... Wars we "know", wars we have studied at school... but the thing is that it's kept up to date! Scroll down... Shocking but true... "it keeps going" Did you know that one kangaroo...
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Bora Bora _ Map & City
Bora Bora's Lagoon is said to be the one with the most shades of blue from all the polynesian lagoons... The "Pointe Matira" is one of the best locations, with the "Motou"s. Those are the stripes of land that are around the lagoon. We went to spend 2...
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Sydney _ last few days
Cheap and delicious sushi... yummy! One last drink with Julie... Goind to the airport... real adventure! It was raining at sunset... We could barely see through the window... we had to stick our heads out to actually see the road! We took the whong way,...
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Darwin _ Kakadu
Kakadu is one of the biggest national parks of Australia. What you see there, you never forget... 1/3 of the birds in Australia are in Kakadu! We even found a cane toad. (australians have imported frogs from England to fight bugs. But the frogs have adapted...
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Cairns _ Green Island
We went on a day trip to Green Island, a little heart shaped island, about 30min away from the coastline... (and NO, it's not the perfect heart you see on picture books that says it's in Cairns, Australia. That one is only made of corals underwater! But...
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Canberra 1
The National Museum... is new, quite empty for the moment, but definitely MODERN! The Telstra Tower... and the view! Canberra is the Capital but it's so flat! See by yourself... We managed to get "behind the scene" at the National Library. My battery...
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Skiing in Coronet Peak
Our Favorite! The sloapes were great, the weather was perfect, the view breathtaking... we've had the best day!
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Tikehau _ Beach and pink sand
Another special feature of Tikehau is its unique Pink sand... Tiny cute seashells... Poor thing... it walked an incredibly long way....