Those who like self-driving tours should not miss such a beautiful view! Next, we will go to the second attraction of the day, "London Bridge". London Bridge is a protruding cape connecting the sea and the land. Due to the erosion of the waves, two natural bridge arches were formed, hence the name London Bridge. In 1990, one of the arches collapsed, forming a broken bridge.
I have to admire the magic of nature again! After years of erosion, it has formed a unique and beautiful scenery. The vegetation on the shore is very dense. The tour guide said there are poisonous snakes in it. Don't go deep into the grassland. There is a prairie beside the beautiful Great Ocean Road. The endless prairie and the invincible sea view just now have given the Great Ocean Road a unique scenery.
The endless prairie and coastline formed a beautiful picture. Returning to Melbourne, the Australian rural police bought two cans of chocolate milk at a rest stop and took a break before returning to the Melbourne rest stop supermarket. Unlike China's highway rest stop supermarkets, some are cheaper than city supermarkets. It was already 17:00 in the afternoon when we arrived in Melbourne.
The sky gradually darkened, but the scenery of Melbourne Harbor was still so charming. Melbourne City. Melbourne Casino. Melbourne Casino is a large casino composed of small casinos. It is open all night. The surrounding supermarkets are also different from other places. They close at 18:00. They are basically open until 12:00 in the morning. Yunluo and An Chuyu arrived in Australia.
The hotel for the last day is a four-star business hotel in Melbourne. It also has a nice iPhone speaker. It's very fashionable! In the blink of an eye, Yunluo's 8-day trip in Australia is about to end. Tomorrow I will return to Sihai City. I am a little reluctant to leave. I will rest early first, because I have to get up early tomorrow to catch the plane!
Melbourne - Sihai City Destination - Sihai City Because I have to catch a flight today, I got up at 6 o'clock, sorted my clothes, had breakfast at 6:30 in the morning and set off at 7 o'clock. Melbourne is already busy in the morning. I looked out the window at the busy Melbourne and went to the airport to check in!
Friends who smoke, remember that smoking is completely prohibited in Australian airports, and there are no smoking rooms! If you want to smoke, you should smoke outside and then go in! Melbourne Airport Duty Free Shop, if you have the opportunity to go to Melbourne Airport, you must buy local colostrum because the duty-free price is cheaper than outside, and the goods are more authentic!
Forget about cigarettes. Cigarettes are very expensive in Australia because of the smoking ban. The cheapest one is 50 yuan per pack! Australian honeycombs are good! Australian freshcut natural and pollution-free honeycombs. The best of honey, Australian pure natural honeycomb honey has the effect of preventing colds and fevers and nourishing the liver. Honeycomb is eye-catching.
It is a mature honey made by bees and sealed with wax, and is composed of honeycombs and honey. It is said that honeycombs contain propolis, royal jelly, pollen and honey. Its nutritional content is higher than that of ordinary honey. It is sweet and fragrant, not greasy, and is the best honey. Yunluo bought 12 boxes and prepared to go back and take a good rest. Waiting to board the plane, I will return to Sihai City soon.
"Mimitou"'s experience of this trip to Australia was different from what he imagined. At first, he thought Australia was just a big farm, but when he really came here, he found that the central streets were not wide but clean and orderly. Personally, I think Australia is cleaner than Japan because there are fewer people and there are still large tracts of green land in places where every inch of land is valuable.
The central city is full of tall buildings, and the buildings are quite distinctive and fashionable, while the wider city is basically green and villas. Sydney is one of the most flowery cities in the world. Australia has charming beaches, gentle and romantic; there are quiet harbors. Australia has about 136,000 farms, all of which are neat and pleasant.
They mainly raise cattle and sheep. It is said that everything they grow and raise on the farm can be sold, so the farmers are very rich, and they don't know where to spend their money. Australians are straightforward and like to talk to strangers. The society is also very tolerant. People of different races live in harmony here.
This has also made Australia a truly international immigrant country. The slow pace of life of Australians also affects work efficiency. Australians like to work in an orderly manner and pay special attention to the quality of their work, so generally the progress of projects is slow but the quality is absolutely excellent. Chinatown is the place with the largest number of Chinese people.
Chinatown is the largest and most distinctive in Australia. Every traditional festival, Chinatown holds grand celebrations, and officials from all levels of local governments are invited to participate. The Chinese have truly integrated into Australian society. Australia has unique tourism resources. Sydney is not only an international business and leisure capital, but also a shopping paradise.
There are many large shopping centers on Pitt Street in the city center, and the shopping environment is first-class. The goods here are not only of various grades, but also of complete varieties, and the fashion brands are almost synchronized with Europe and the United States. There are not many local specialties in Australia that can be bought. Australian gems and sheep oil are more famous. In addition, coffee, chocolate and milk powder are cheaper than in China and are worth buying.
After getting up in the morning, I prepared to go to Sydney's first stop, the famous landmark Sydney Opera House. There was a large display screen before entering the Central Station, which showed the train information and platform. Because of my impatience, Yunluo went straight into the station without even looking at it. Later, I searched for a long time in the platform before I found which platform I should go to.
After getting off at Circularquay Station, you can see the Harbour Bridge. If you walk forward, you can see the famous landmark, the Sydney Opera House. Helicopters fly over the Opera House from time to time. The Australian flag is flying above the Harbour Bridge. After the incident in Singapore last time when An Chuyu couldn't take a photo, Yunluo asked him to press the shutter.
Teach him to press lightly, wait for the "beep" sound and then press harder = he finally learned to take pictures. And he took pictures. So happy. Go to the Royal Botanic Gardens. The Royal Botanic Gardens is really a great place to take pictures of the Opera House ~ It's beautiful? Australia has such weather every day, blue sky and white clouds. These high-rise buildings can be seen in the Royal Botanic Gardens.
It also includes the birds in the Sydney Tower and the Royal Botanic Gardens. The birds here are not afraid of people and get very close to you. Close-up of the Opera House. There was also a wedding at the Royal Botanic Gardens, and it seemed that the host was Chinese. The host spoke Chinese. After having lunch at the restaurant next to the Opera House, I took the bus to Bondi Beach.
You can't pay on Sydney buses, you can only swipe your card. Yunluo and An Chuyu even bought an opal card. Surfers are surfing! Write Yunluo's nickname on the beach == Then a foreigner saw it and asked Yunluo to write his Chinese name. Yunluo just translated it phonetically. Surfers have this kind of skateboarding performance next to the beach.
(I don't know if it was a performance, maybe just someone having fun ==) Many people were sunbathing behind the beach. Then I went to the opera house to take some photos of the night view. It gets dark very early in Australia in August. It starts to get dark after 5pm local time, and it's basically like this after 6pm~ After dark, you can't enter the Royal Botanic Gardens, and this is the only angle.
Sydney University - Sydney Tower - Hyde Park As a junior high school student, Yunluo still wants to visit the University of Sydney, the world's top university. Because I was dragging two big suitcases, I only visited a small part of it. This building is very famous. Searching for pictures of the University of Sydney on the Internet yielded a lot of results.
We walked along the small paths of the University of Sydney and then came to the Sydney Tower for a buffet lunch. This buffet lunch is a bit expensive. Two people booked it on the Seven Continents website for more than 500 yuan. The food there was quite rich and it was OK, but the drinks were charged and there were no free drinks. It was charged, but the view from above was very beautiful!
You can see the endless sea, the Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House, which is blocked by buildings, so you can only see a small part. You can also see the airport, and the restaurant is revolving, which is beautiful! The entrance to the Sydney Tower buffet restaurant is difficult to find, and there is no special sign underneath. There is a shopping mall in the basement of the Sydney Tower, and the things inside are very expensive.
A piece of clothing costs thousands of dollars. If you want to go to the revolving restaurant, go into the mall. There is an elevator inside the mall with floor markings. I forgot which floor it was, but it says 360 buffet restaurant. Don't click on sydneytowereye, that's for the Sydney Tower observation deck, not for dining.
After getting off the elevator, if you have made a reservation in advance, you will show your travel voucher and the staff will register you. You will be given something similar to a cashier receipt, and then the staff will ask you to take the elevator to the revolving restaurant. After arriving at the restaurant, the staff will arrange seats, but only seats for two people are next to the window.
Yunluo thinks it's better to sit by the window~ Endless sea~ Hyde Park, almost a panoramic view This is the food. It's OK, there are seafood, but Yunluo and An Chuyu didn't see it == Behind the circle of people taking food in the middle, it's not easy to see if you keep looking at the food.
A small part of the Citibank logo, a small part of the Harbour Bridge, a small part of the Royal Botanic Gardens, and the Opera House ====You can see the airport and planes taking off and landing~ Birds in Sydney Tower Hyde Park Opal Carter in Hyde Park, Yunluo is so bored. After playing in the Harbour Park for a while, Yunluo and An Chuyu took the train to the airport.
The next day, I had an early flight and stayed near the airport. This beautiful seaside resort city of Cairns is more than 2,000 kilometers from Sydney to Cairns. It was already past 10 o'clock when I arrived in Cairns. Since Cairns is just a tourist resort city, the city is not big and the transportation in the city is not well developed. There are buses and taxis from the airport to Cairns.
If there are two or more people, it is more cost-effective to take a taxi. It takes about ten minutes to take a taxi from the airport to the city (Yunluo and An Chuyu live near the pier), and it costs more than 20 Australian dollars. Credit cards can be used. After checking in at the hotel, Yunluo and An Chuyu wandered around the beach in Cairns. There is also a man-made beach swimming pool in the city.
The water in the swimming pool is salty, it should be sea water. Yunluo and An Chuyu stayed at the Pacific International Hotel in Cairns. The rooms are nice, with balconies. Most rooms have sea views, and the location is very good. Just around the corner from the hotel is the pier for the Great Barrier Reef day tour, and there is a dfs and a Chinese restaurant below the hotel.
As shown in the picture, this is the pier that Yunluo took in the room. Yunluo likes to make a scissor hand gesture when taking photos. After getting up in the morning, we went to the pier to check in. Yunluo and An Chuyu booked a one-day tour with Sun Lovers Company. Overall, it was very good. There were many Chinese people, at least dozens of people, and there were Chinese explanations for snorkeling and various activities, which was very convenient.
The boat is sailing. This is the whole city of Cairns. It's not big! The boat is sailing very fast. It's easy to get seasick. Plastic bags are also provided on the boat. We arrived at the Great Barrier Reef offshore platform~ The Coral Helicopter we saw on the boat~took off~ As a flying friend, Yunluo, here's a close-up of the registration number~ Boarding~Take off!
It was really beautiful to see the endless sea from the helicopter. It was so beautiful == The helicopter machine close-up began to slowly descend. Only Yunluo went diving, and An Chuyu didn't dare == For those who don't dare to dive or have physical problems, they provide this glass-bottom boat to see the beautiful coral polyps, but of course it's not as comfortable as diving.
When Yunluo went to take the glass bottom boat, there was a fish feeding show at the end. A lot of fish rushed up. When coming back, we had to pick up people at Emerald Island. This company seemed to have sold round-trip tickets from Cairns to Emerald Island. The one-day tour of the Great Barrier Reef ended like this. The one-day tour of the Great Barrier Reef was Yunluo's favorite in the whole trip. It was so beautiful, and snorkeling was not enough.
Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens. I woke up at 5am for my 6:15am flight. When I arrived at the airport, the check-in line stretched out to the counter. Jetstar's business is so good that there are three flights taking off at 6am. And there are so many people. I got off the plane at a remote stand in Melbourne. As soon as I got off the plane, the cold wind hit me in the face. It was freezing.
Two seasons in one country is really dreamy. The baggage claim for domestic flights in Melbourne is in the public area, not in the quarantine area, so it depends entirely on your own consciousness. After checking in at the hotel, walk to the Royal Botanic Gardens (there are flowers and trees all around there, and Yunluo is not sure if Yunluo has walked in.
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In winter, only the branches of the big trees are left. There are foreigners basking in the sun on the lawn. There are all kinds of flowers and trees. The air is fresh. There are students playing football on the lawn in front. == The high-rise buildings in the central cbd are so beautiful!
After getting up at Melbourne Zoo, I took the tram to the University of Melbourne. Almost all tram stations in Melbourne have platforms like domestic bus stations. Obviously, the station Yunluo was looking for only had a sign, and he searched for a long time. The various buildings at the University of Melbourne are really stylish! Close-up of the logo~Is this a teaching building?
So beautiful == Yunluo told herself: Yunluo is not a tourist attraction, but a university. Yunluo now likes to take photos from the back == This house. Really. Beautiful. Amazing. When I took this photo, there was a strong wind, and I felt like my camera was about to be blown away. There is also lavender on the campus. It smells so good.
How can you not learn well in such a school? ===== Then I took the tram to Melbourne Zoo, which is not far from the University of Melbourne. I went to the zoo just to see the cute koalas. But there were only three of them. And they were all sleeping on the trees. I was here.
Let's take a look at these common animals in China == Zebra and giraffe Yunluo searched the whole zoo for a long time, but couldn't find them. According to the map, they were not there either. It turns out that you are so inconspicuous. There are only three of them... Yunluo imagined that there should be a group of them == How long do you want to sleep? It's time to get up == There is also one lying here.
This one even moved a little bit == There are more kangaroos~ Yunluo feels that their postures are always like this == Here are a few that are not in that posture == There is also a little penguin lying here, so cute~ So cute. Swimming~ Let Yunluo guess. Elephant mother and elephant son. This is their afternoon life as a student.
Tram tracks. The feeling of riding a tram is the same as riding a train. An Chuyu can't drive on the Great Ocean Road, and Yunluo is very proud of this~ so Yunluo and An Chuyu can only go to the Great Ocean Road on a one-day tour organized by a travel agency. This is the entrance to the Great Ocean Road. No one picked up the seafood on the beach. There is no seafood in China. Yunluo is here to show off again.
After sitting in the car for most of the day, we finally arrived at the Twelve Apostles. There are two spectacular natural wonders on the left. Can you zoom in?
Yunluo didn't want to leave. St. Kilda Beach After leaving the luggage at the hotel in the morning, I headed to St. Kilda Beach. This was the last stop, and I would return home in the evening. ===== I was reluctant to leave ==== I didn't want to leave ===== I went back, and the summer vacation was almost over~ Yunluo's trip, which he had been preparing for for more than half a year, was also coming to an end. Black Swan.
Looking at the various boats in Melbourne CBD~ An Chuyu will take pictures of Yunluo. Yunluo is very happy. The little penguin~ is out. It's out. The seagulls are out! Yunluo wants to see you. Are you staring at Yunluo? = After leaving St. Kilda Beach in the afternoon, I walked around Melbourne. I have to leave, and I am reluctant to leave.
With memories of this place in mind, I was reluctant to leave. The cost for two people was 29,000, excluding shopping. Accommodation and dining in Australia are generally expensive. [Transportation] Sydney Bus: Sydney Bus tickets can only be purchased in advance at the nearby pre-sale online store, or at 7-11 convenience stores to buy Opal cards (can be used to pay for getting on and off the train or bus). Opal cards can be recharged with a minimum of ten yuan, and there is no card fee.
The pre-sale tickets are divided into single and ten-trip adult tickets. The mybus ticket is priced by room. There is a bus route map on the departure point map with rooms marked on it. As shown in the picture, if you get on the bus from room 10 and get off at room 8, you will have passed three rooms 8, 9, and 10, so you should buy a mybus2 ticket. In addition, Sydney buses do not announce stops.
You can only get familiar with the surroundings of the station you are going to get off, but this is almost impossible for tourists, so Yunluo uses Google Maps to locate where Yunluo and Anchu meet, and prepares to get off when you see that they are almost there. Anyway, taking public transportation in Sydney is troublesome, so tourists should try to take the train.
From Sydney Airport to the city: (There are train, taxi and airport bus options. Yunluo and An Chuyu chose the train. If there are two or three people, you can take a taxi. The airport bus fare is about the same as the train, but of course the speed is much slower. The train takes more than ten minutes to get to Central Station, but the airport bus can take you to the hotel entrance).
Since the train station at Sydney Airport is privately operated, the same distance is much more expensive than the train in the city. Yunluo and Anchuyu departed from the international terminal, adults, children aud14. This website can check point-to-point transportation plans, including ticket prices. (To be continued...)