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Our Australia Road Travel Adventure-5 Days from Adelaide to Sydney Part 1:
As long as you have some time up your sleeve, Australia road travel is the very best way to see this country and a great way to meet the people who live there. After seeing the spectacular monolith called Uluru located near Alice Springs in Australia's 'Red Center' at sunset one Aussie fall day, we traveled on the famous Ghan train from there to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. While in Adelaide we decided to hire a car and take our own road trip from Adelaide to Sydney. Despite some dry patches and some forgettable roadhouse food we loved it!
Day 1
We leave this beautiful city filled with parklands and quaint cottages made of local bluestone and headed up through the Adelaide Hills stopping for coffee at a little German village aptly named Hahndorf. The trip ahead awaits us so after stocking up on some streusel bun and a stick of metwurst we head south. We notice the change in scenery as we travel through dry ‘marginal farming land’ to reach Keith for a gas or ‘petrol’ stop. We can’t imagine who Keith was and how this town was named after him.
By the time we arrived at Penola for lunch, dusty fields called ‘paddocks’ here, with sheep looking as hungry as we felt had been replaced by endless rows of grape vines. We had entered the Coonawarra, one of this country’s leading wine growing areas and experience our first change in Australia road travel scenery. The red with dinner that night was extra good.
Day 2
We cross the border into the state of Victoria and travel directly through the Wimmera grain growing and sheep country. We head towards Bedingo where we notice an impressive array of late nineteenth century buildings built as a result of the gold rush around here during the 1850’s. The Golden Dragon Museum on one of the wide main streets here gives us an insight into the impact of the Chinese miners on this gold rush. We sleep dreaming of our 'lucky strike' that night and head off the next morning towards the wierdest welcome we've ever seen to a country town.
For Part 2 of Our Australia Road Travel Adventure - 5 Days from Adelaide to Sydney go to our blog at www.blog.mightydigitaldownloads.com
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