However, his rice noodles are very famous. I will go there every time I come to Melbourne. The taste is very good, and there is a lot of beef, very tender! [Cairns therawprawns] This prawn is quite famous, but the price is a bit expensive, but it is understandable in such a tourist city.
When Yunluo and An Chuyu went there early, they happened to catch this offer: customers who sat down before 6:30 pm got a 15% discount, which was pretty good. Here is a menu for reference: there are shrimps, mantis shrimps, barramundi (probably some kind of marine fish) and small octopus, which tasted good.
This dish is called hop, skip, swim & jump, and it contains crocodile meat, kangaroo meat, ostrich meat and some kind of fish. In fact, the taste is so-so, and the kangaroo meat is quite tough. [Sydney fishmarket] Australia's most famous seafood market, the reviews here are mixed. As for the oysters, lobsters, Australian abalone, and New Zealand prawns that Yunluo and An Chuyu ate here.
They are all very fresh, and I didn't eat other seafood. Yunluo personally thinks that the seafood here is relatively fresh, but the processing is very poor. After all, it is not a restaurant, so it is best to choose raw food, which is more practical. In addition, it is best not to come here at lunch and dinner time, because there will be many tour groups that will crowd this place.
Yunluo and An Chuyu always come here in the morning or early morning. There are not many people here, which is not bad. Here are some photos for your reference. It is said that this fish is also available in China, but it is very expensive. This fish is also, Yunluo has never eaten it before. Oysters are very fresh and have no fishy smell. Yunluo and An Chuyu came to the fishmarket twice.
The first time was around 10am, the second time was around 8am, the second time was fresher. Octopus. Really fat. The tuna that Yunluo and Anchuyu saw when they were eating was really big! In addition to seafood, the fish market also has many other foods, such as bread, fruit, wine, etc.
[Hobart Ball & Chaingrill Steak] This is the best steak house in Tasmania. It is much better than the Flamme in Sanlitun, and is said to be slightly worse than the steak at Marriott, but the price-performance ratio is quite high. Yunluo feels that the taste here is good, and the most important factor is that the beef is good. This restaurant has a website.
There is a menu inside, you can refer to this is eyefillet. This is scotchfillet. Here is the stove where they grill steaks. [Melbourne Old and Good Authentic Northeastern BBQ] Finally, I recommend a barbecue restaurant in Melbourne, in Boxhill. This is the most authentic Chinese food that Yunluo and An Chuyu have eaten in Australia.
The barbecue in the store is very authentic, the lamb skewers have a lot of meat, and the taste is very good! Grilled lamb chops. Better than Niujie, the lamb is very tender! Grilled leeks, the taste is quite authentic! In addition to barbecue, the cold dishes taste quite good. The boss is a real Northeast man! The craftsmanship is very good!
(Melbourne to Cairns, Cairns to Gold Coast, Brisbane to and from Whitsunday Islands, Brisbane to Sydney, Sydney to Hobart. Launceston to Melbourne) 7300 yuan/person hotel Cairns 3 nights, Gold Coast 2 nights. Brisbane 1 night, Whitsunday Islands 2 nights, Sydney 2 nights, Canberra 1 night.
Hobart 3 nights, a total of 10,300 yuan, 5,150 yuan per person. Others include food, entertainment, bus rides, and small gifts (souvenirs), etc., not including large purchases that require tax refunds, 20,300 per person. So all in all, about 37,000 per person. [Transportation] 1. Using gocard on Gold Coast buses can save about 30% of the fare.
If you use GoCard more than 10 times in a week, you can get a 50% discount starting from the 11th time on weekends. The ticket counters of Brisbane AirTrain and the tourist counters at Gold Coast Airport both provide card purchase and return services. A deposit of 5 Australian dollars is required when purchasing the card (which can be returned when the card is returned).
If you take public transportation frequently, you can save money. 7-11 only allows you to buy cards and recharge, but not refund. Only a few newsagents with the "gocardrefund" logo can refund cards. 2. Brisbane Metro Australia's subways and trains are not as developed as those in Beijing and London. The only transportation connecting the city and the surrounding areas is the metro.
This is the map of Brisbane's metro. You can take the Gold Coast Line from the Gold Coast directly to Brisbane Airport. 3. Domestic flights in Australia In Australia, the larger airlines are Qantas, Virgin, Jetstar, and Tiger. Qantas is the largest airline, with the most expensive price and better service.
It is equivalent to Air China in Australia. Jetstar and Tiger are low-cost airlines, and Tiger's conditions are worse than Jetstar's. [Shopping] You can get a tax refund if you spend more than 300 Australian dollars in a shopping mall, but remember that the 300 Australian dollars must be on one receipt. [Local phone] Yunluo and An Chuyu applied for the Optus 2-yuan prepaid package.
For two dollars a day, you can make unlimited calls within Australia, send unlimited text messages within Australia, and use 3G Internet. The official website address of this package is: Important* If you use an iPhone, you cannot use personal hotspot on this package!
Fortunately, this restriction only applies to iPhones. Android phones can open hotspots. If you bring a computer to surf the Internet, you should bring an Android phone. [Preparation before the trip] 1. The sockets in Australia are all three-hole flat heads. Chinese three-hole plugs can work normally in Australia. It is recommended to bring a three-compartment plug plate.
Everything is done! Please refer to what Yunluo brought: 2. Like Europe, hotels in Australia are environmentally friendly, so please bring your own toiletries and slippers. 3. Friends who need to drive in Australia, please bring your driver's license and translation. For details, please refer to the practical guide to driving in Australia. When we arrived in Cairns, the time was just right.
At noon, Yunluo and Anchuyu were unfamiliar with the place. They naturally chose to take the airport shuttle bus to the hotel, because they had the impression that taxis were always more expensive than these shuttles. As a result, their first visit to Australia refreshed this impression. The two spent AUD28 to buy tickets and waited for 20 minutes to get on the minibus.
But the next morning Yunluo and An Chuyu took a taxi from the hotel to the airport. It was not too late. If you meet someone traveling with you, you can share the taxi. It can be seen that you should be careful when taking the airport bus in Cairns~~~ We arrived at the hotel at 2pm. Australian hotels are really strange. The check-in time is 3pm, and the check-out time is actually 10am.
But character must be conserved. Yunluo was not turned away at any time during the whole trip. Even when he arrived in the morning, he was able to check in directly. Since Yunluo and An Chuyu were flying to Hamilton Island the next morning, they would only stay in Cairns for one afternoon, and compared to the beautiful Outer Great Barrier Reef.
Yunluo and An Chuyu actually don't care about Green Island, Magnetic Island and the Great Barrier Reef that have been destroyed by humans. It's nice to just walk around Cairns. Let's go and have fun~ Directly outside the hotel in the picture above, the hotel is actually quite good, called rydgesesplanaderesortcairns, it's a chain.
I saw several swimming pools along the way in Australia, and the location was good. This is a swimming pool near the sea in the city. Although the sun was setting, the children were still playing carefree. I wonder if the children in China were on their way to tutoring classes after school.
It's heartbreaking to think about it. This was Yunluo's first meal in Australia, a Chinese buffet opened by a Korean. You can put as much as you want on a plate, and different sizes of plates have different prices. Yunluo's seems to be not recommended, and everything is sweet. But the squid and shrimp are actually quite good.
Yunluo loves Hamilton Island. The next morning, I flew to Brisbane and then transferred to Hamilton. But when I arrived in Hamilton, I felt happy and everything was worth it. I have to say that the rich island is the rich island, and the smell of the rich is everywhere. Hahaha, just look at the picture!
Whitsundayapartments overlooks the downstairs in the hotel, and it also has its own small swimming pool~ Although Yunluo has never been there, it is sad that the lives of rich people are different. This small golf cart is a buggy (actually not expensive, it seems to be AUD 70/day, the exact price is unknown), a means of transportation on the island.
It seems that Chinese driver's licenses can be rented only after translation and notarization, but Yunluo and An Chuyu did not drive themselves the whole time, so naturally they would not notarize their driver's licenses for renting this thing. Seeing foreigners renting cars with their families, it's so impressive! I said weakly, posing for photos and guessing that Yunluo, as a foodie, is...
Where to go first when arriving on the island? Haha, Yunluo actually went to the supermarket. Let’s take a look at the goods Yunluo bought from the supermarket~ All added up, it basically costs AUD 57 yuan. Wow, look at other people’s purchasing power. They bought so many goods in large and small bags for only 50+. These goods in domestic supermarkets would cost at least 200 yuan. Wow.
A big steak weighing more than one pound, two pounds of beef mince, milk, juice, vegetables, bread, and mushrooms in the bag~~ When Yunluo and An Chuyu were happily deciding to show off their cooking skills at Whitsundayapartments, an uninvited guest came to the window. Look, it was this one that Yunluo and An Chuyu discovered later.
This yellow-crowned parrot is a very common bird on the island. Not only can you see it every day, but if you eat on the balcony, you will definitely see them visiting. The wildlife souvenir shop specializes in selling dolls of this kind of parrot~ It’s super cute. After all, Yunluo and An Chuyu are not here to cook, so they should come down early for a stroll after dinner.
You can also waste time on the island~ You can stroll to the swimming pool of the more handsome and rich hotel next door. It is obviously high-end and atmospheric! It gets dark, but it feels good, right? The tropical style is unobstructed. Here is an Australian ice cream. I only eat this double scoop ice cream along the way. It is super delicious and the price is acceptable.
Haha, as long as it is not converted into RMB, well, the two balls in the picture above seem to be, now look, they are real, they are said to be two balls, but in fact each ball is super big, and the ice cream spoon has to roll several times in the bucket to make a ball~ It looks real~ The sun is setting, and I will take a helicopter to see the Heart-shaped Reef tomorrow!
Yunluo had always thought that if she and Anchuyu hadn't gone to the Kuranda Rainforest in Cairns and the Brisbane Zoo, they would never have the chance to hold a koala. Fortunately, on this small Hamilton Island, Yunluo actually found a place to hold a koala. It was Wildlife Park. Yunluo will give you the website address first.
Of course, this is the official website of Hamilton Island, which has a lot of information, not just koala hugging. Students who need it can use it as a reference. The activity of hugging koalas here is called "Breakfast with Koalas". The name of the activity is so cute, but it is actually a buffet breakfast. There are two trees in the dining area, and a koala is sleeping on each tree.
The tree is very short, and tall boys can reach out and touch the koalas. Of course, this is forbidden. Haha, it is also very interesting to eat under the koala tree. Breakfast is AUD 28 per person, and taking photos is AUD 20 per person. Breakfast is just like that. After all, no one goes there for food, but to see koalas.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
I have to say a special word about the photography staff. Although it is AUD20/person, the requirement is AUD20/hold, which means only one person can hold the koala, but you can take photos with any poses and any number of people. No matter how many cameras you bring, the staff will patiently help you take photos.
I saw a family with four children when I first met An. The mother held a koala, and the father and the children posed in many ways around the mother and the koala. The staff were very patient and everyone could rest assured to give their own cameras to the staff. The photos taken would satisfy you. Finally, the staff took a few photos with their own SLRs.
The photos were printed in A5 size and given to Yunluo and An Chuyu to take away. There was also a paper photo frame as a souvenir. It must be said that the enthusiastic working attitude of Australians left Yunluo and An Chuyu with too many beautiful memories of this trip. I have been talking about this for so long, so let's take a look at the pictures first. Don't talk about getting up early.
Just to be closer to the koala while eating. Although the people taking photos of the koalas can move around freely, it does not mean that you cannot take photos if your seat is far away, but it is still happier to eat under the koala tree. This is the koala that Yunluo took while sitting at his seat. It was sleeping quietly and had only opened its eyes a few times.
Lazy thing~ This is a photo taken by the staff for Yunluo and An Chuyu. The koala is super cute and quite heavy. An Chuyu can only touch it but not hug it. The koala's fur is very much like the wool in snow boots. Hahahaha, before we went there, it was strongly recommended that Yunluo not hug a koala because when they went to Australia, someone wearing short sleeves hugged a koala and got his arm scratched badly.
It is also said that koalas smell bad. I don’t know if Yunluo is too lucky, the one Yunluo held had no such problems at all, and was as well-behaved as a child~~ Another highlight of the day was the half-day tour to Whitehaven, which was booked at the marina on the first day when we arrived at Hamilton Island. It cost AUD99 per person, which was actually just for the sake of cheapness.
Because I saw that the Aole was priced at AUD179/person, I thought it was cheap for a reason. Yunluo and Anchuyu's half-day tour could only play with sand on the beach and could not reach the viewing platform, which was just a taste of White Heaven. This is White Heaven. The sand is indeed very fine, but it is not amazing. Not many people go into the water.
Most people were lying on the beach to sunbathe salted fish, but Yunluo didn't understand. There was no place where salted fish couldn't be sunbathed. You came all the way here just to sunbathe salted fish? The rich people took a seaplane, and of course Yunluo was posing for photos. There was a website on the plane, and if you are interested, you can refer to the content of the website. For the losers, it is more reliable to take the boat to go and back at 99/person.
Look, I didn't lie to you, there were only a few people on the beach, and almost no one in the water. The main reason may be too much sun, no, it was too much sun, it's all tears. It's been more than a month, and Yunluo is still black and white. How can I say about the half-day tour of White Heaven? It's not bad, maybe it's cheap.
Or maybe Yunluo and An Chuyu had too high expectations? In short, the half-day tour was just playing with sand on the beach. There was no chance to reach the viewing platform, so there was no chance to see the panoramic view of White Heaven. Fortunately, Yunluo and An Chuyu had seen it on the helicopter. If they didn't have the chance to hug the helicopter, they should not save the money.
Let's sign up for a day trip to Whitehaven. After coming back, we decided to take a half-day tour around the island, mainly because we have to leave tomorrow, and there are many scenery on the island that we haven't seen yet. Let's talk about the transportation on the island. It was mentioned above that people on the island mainly travel by golf carts and buggies, and according to Yunluo's observation, this buggy is left-hand drive.
It is the same as the habits of our Chinese people. I guess it is quite easy to drive. Just pay attention to the fact that other people also drive on the left. Don't drive against the flow. Of course, if some people rent buggy, there must be others who don't. How do those who don't rent go out? They have to rely on public transportation. Public transportation includes green line, orange line and purple line. The green line is the most common.
There are few places to go and the area is small, but there are a lot of cars. There is definitely a car every 10-15 minutes. The Orange Line and the Purple Line are similar. Compared with the Green Line, they go to farther places and there are relatively fewer cars, with one car every 40 minutes. The Green Line cannot reach the best place to watch the sunset on the island mentioned by Yunluo below - oreehill.
You need to take the Orange Line or Purple Line, but you need to watch the time and don't miss the last bus. It's still quite a long way to walk back. I just mentioned that this place is called oreehill, haha, this name is so uncultured, similar to mangotreecorner, what kind of name is this, hahaha. (To be continued...)