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The Grand Tourists

Dreams, waking thoughts and incidents on the road

Aussie roadtrip stats

  • Days travelled: 100
  • Kilometres travelled: 26,161
  • Free/paid camps: 51/49
  • Pies eaten: 26
  • Tantrums thrown: 6
  • Bush poos taken: 1

Recent posts

  • A walk in the park: hiking in Peru, Australia and NZ
  • The last leg: limping from Byron Bay to Cup Day
  • The road most travelled: On the backpacker trail to Brisbane
  • Diver down: Learning to dive on the Great Barrier Reef
  • On the tablelands: Eating our way through Tropical North Queensland
  • Where the forest meets the sea: Discovering the Daintree Rainforest
  • The rest of the Red Centre: Hiking Kings Canyon and Ormiston Gorge
  • Between the Rock and a hard place: Uluru and Alice Springs
  • Discovering Australia’s Disneyland: Kakadu National Park
  • Bugs, crocs and bushfires: a million ways to die in the Top End

About us

An Aussie girl and an Englishman meet in Thailand and make their lives an endless Grand Tour.

Follow us as we road trip Australia and New Zealand, backpack South America and explore Europe.

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Tag: hiking

A walk in the park: hiking in Peru, Australia and NZ
Australia, new zealand, South America

A walk in the park: hiking in Peru, Australia and NZ

I am a very lazy person. I only wash my hair once a week and even that is a considerable test of my strength and endurance. Conversely, I love multi-day hikes. Continue reading A walk in the park: hiking in Peru, Australia and NZ

The rest of the Red Centre: Hiking Kings Canyon and Ormiston Gorge
Australia

The rest of the Red Centre: Hiking Kings Canyon and Ormiston Gorge

In the second half of our Red Centre roadtrip we explore Kings Canyon, Ormiston Gorge and the Devils Marbles – some of the Northern Territory’s OTHER impressive geological formations. Continue reading The rest of the Red Centre: Hiking Kings Canyon and Ormiston Gorge

Between the Rock and a hard place: Uluru and Alice Springs
Australia

Between the Rock and a hard place: Uluru and Alice Springs

We travel 1,645 km from the Top End to the Red Centre of Australia just to see the mighty Uluru and Kata Tjuta monoliths. It was totes worth it. Continue reading Between the Rock and a hard place: Uluru and Alice Springs

Discovering Australia’s Disneyland: Kakadu National Park
Australia

Discovering Australia’s Disneyland: Kakadu National Park

We continued our road trip through the ‘Never Never’ (one of Australia’s more romantic names for the Top End) to the famous Kakadu National Park. Continue reading Discovering Australia’s Disneyland: Kakadu National Park

Gorgeous gorges, wild waterfalls and plunge pools: Karijini National Park
Australia

Gorgeous gorges, wild waterfalls and plunge pools: Karijini National Park

The beautiful Pilbara region reveals surreal ghost towns like Parabadoo and magical wild places including the best-kept secret in Western Australia – Karijini National Park. Continue reading Gorgeous gorges, wild waterfalls and plunge pools: Karijini National Park

Wets on for WA’s Indian Ocean Drive: Perth to Kalbarri
Australia

Wets on for WA’s Indian Ocean Drive: Perth to Kalbarri

A few hours north of Perth, on the iconic Indian Ocean Drive, you can explore geological wonders like the Pinnacles and the gorges of Kalbarri, fueling up on local rock lobster. Continue reading Wets on for WA’s Indian Ocean Drive: Perth to Kalbarri

Having a whale of a time: Esperance to Albany
Australia

Having a whale of a time: Esperance to Albany

Our victory on the Nullabor crossing has unlocked Western Australia’s remote south west coast. We visit the whitest sand in the world at Lucky Bay, and find a whale nursery at the end of Fitzgerald National Park. Continue reading Having a whale of a time: Esperance to Albany

Roaming the Flinders Ranges: Wilpena Pound to Blinman
Australia

Roaming the Flinders Ranges: Wilpena Pound to Blinman

In the second part of our Flinders Ranges trip we hiked iconic Wilpena Pound and followed the wiggly roads through to Blinman, South Australia’s highest town. Continue reading Roaming the Flinders Ranges: Wilpena Pound to Blinman

Land before time:  Travelling through the ancient Flinders Ranges
Australia

Land before time: Travelling through the ancient Flinders Ranges

Entering the Flinders Ranges, we become immersed in an ancient world of 500-year-old gumtrees, 1000-year-old indigenous cave paintings and 600 million-year-old rock formations. Continue reading Land before time: Travelling through the ancient Flinders Ranges

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