If you’re in Australia, you’ll want to see all the tourist attractions. If you have a sense of adventure and enjoy the unusual, though, you’ll really want to visit these seven places.
7. The Old Melbourne Gaol
Rumored to be one of the most haunted sites in Australia, the Old Melbourne Gaol has a long, dark history. This dreary prison hosted 136 executions, including that of infamous bushranger Ned Kelly. Take a candlelight tour at night and hope that you don’t attract the attention of any angry spirits that may be lingering there.
6. Tour a Diamond Mine
Diamonds are a girls best friend
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This is a guest post from Jade Eva.
Once again I found myself in that familiar student-traveller situation, the heavily unbalanced ratio of “the desire to go somewhere new” to “bank balance”. No prizes for which side had a larger quantity. However, armed with the unstoppable forces of the internet, as well as some handy travel guides, I managed to travel without destroying my savings fund.
My chosen destination was Malta, an island with gorgeous beaches, fantastic food and even better weather. However, unless you want to spend your visit surrounded by sun-worshipping tourists…I would steer clear of the beaches. By midday, most of the beaches are heaving with locals and tourists which is not exactly the most relaxing of experiences…
Maltese water
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It seems now the media attention on Japans earthquake issues has fallen, the locals based not wanting to sell newspapers can get the real word out without media spin. It has been over a month now since the earthquake which effected many parts of Japan. Although based in Fukushima myself, due to lack of work, and the minor nuclear threat I was moved down to the Chiba prefecture next to Tokyo.
The Chiba area around Tokyo bay is all built on reclaimed land so was moved quite a bit during the earthquake which knocked the earth 4 degrees off it’s axis. Sand and water has come through cracks, but that isn’t stopping everyone rebuilding it as before.
Here is an image I took just outside a train station I got off at on the Sobu line – I can’t remember the exact stop as I was just looking for something to do so got off at the busiest looking station):
Fixing the problem quickly
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This is a guest post by Liah S Thorley is a travel writer and novelist from the UK. She has travelled extensively and particularly enjoys history and the arts.
The vastness of Canada is enough to boggle the mind, yet sitting next to its louder neighbour the USA, its quiet natural beauty can sometimes be overshadowed. I’d been studying in the USA and had a couple of spare weeks before going back to university in the UK. My time wouldn’t stretch to see the whole country so I had to be selective. The decision was easy – I was heading out West to British Columbia.
Now anyone who is or has been a student knows how hard it is to make ends meet, so you know what I mean when I say I was on the skimpiest budget I have ever had to make do on. I bought the cheapest flight to Vancouver I could find, threw my clothes in my bag and hopped across the border.
BC aka British Columbia
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This is a guest post from Rob Melau
Even though I had heard many fascinating stories about Cyprus, the political developments on the divided island always kind of put me off and kept me from strapping on my backpack and just seeing for myself what the country was all about. At some point, however, I had a change of heart and decided to put aside my preconceptions which were potentially clouding reality.
Just to give you a quick lowdown on Cyprus … it lies at the crossroads of three continents and has been ruled by plenty of empires and nations which all left their mark on the island. The crusaders built numerous castles; the Arabs refined the local cuisine and introduced exotic dishes like ‘Meze’ ….whereas the Brits caused the Cypriots to drive on the left! Not to mention the Turks who ended up dividing the country!
Cyprus castle
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