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Feb-2012
Melbourne – Great Ocean Road – Adélaïde
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Les 12 apôtres, Great Ocean Road
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Rouler sur la plage de Robe
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Les koalas du Great Otway National Park
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Le Blue Lake du Mont Gambier
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Melbourne, vu de Kinda Beach
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Les vignobles de la Barossa Valley
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Adélaïde
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Coucher de soleil sur Christies Beach
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Kinda Beach, Melbourne
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Sur la Great Ocean Road
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Les 12 apôtres, Great Ocean Road
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Adélaïde
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Coucher de soleil sur Christies Beach
Rent a van and make the Melbourne-Adelaide route along the ocean, making BBQ and waking up every morning on a different beautiful beach (with sexy surfers). You’ll pass through eucalyptus forests with koalas, you will stop at the edge of a deep blue lake and you can run without thinking through a desert of white sand …
Highlights of the route from Melbourne to Adelaïde
- Melbourne is an eclectic city and the cultural center of Australia. It is recommended to visit one of the many cafes. Go also to Kinda Beach nearby, hostels are really nice there.
- Kenneth River : stop there for half an hour and try to spot the many koalas in the wild.
- Great Otway National Park : cross the national park to the point at Cape Otway, as you will encounter on the way many koalas perched in their eucalyptus!
- The Great Ocean Road : a gorgeous road along the ocean which has curiously been built after the First World War to provide work for veterans. The Great Ocean Road is primarily known for his 12 Apostles, rocks that stand in the middle of the water, and the remains of the London Bridge , a natural bridge that collapsed in 1990, isolating on both sides two poor tourists who miraculously stayed unharmed. The coast is also notorious for its shipwrecks, due to its strong currents and fogs (assuming there would not be any water in the ocean, we could distinguish 1200 wrecks ! ) .
- Mount Gambier : you will find a lake with an intense almost surreal blue called Blue Lake ! A must see! Then enjoy a beautiful day and a BBQ in the park surrounding the two lakes.
- Robe: just for the pleasure of riding on the beach! But do not make the same mistake as us to drive too close to the sea, otherwise you risk bogging down (fortunately, you will benefit from the help of the inhabitants of Robe that are super helpful).
- The Giant Lobster in Kingston with its 17 meters high: the iron structure in the shape of lobster is both impressive and ridiculous. It is typically Australian to create “giant things” in places without interest to encourage tourists to stop in for a coffee nearby. There are more than 60 of them in Australia, including the Giant Shrimp, Giant Koala , Giant Oyster, the Giant lawn mower or the Giant Orange.
- The Coroong National Park for its sublime desert spaces and aboriginal villages.
- Barossa Valley: enjoy the local grapes from the Barossa Valley, one of the many areas of Australia known for its vineyards (the country has no less than 1,500 wineries).
- Christies Beach : a small, very pleasing beach just before you get to Adelaide with of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen in my life !
- Adelaide : unknown city by its isolation (in the south, thousands of miles of ocean until you get to Antarctica and, in the north, a huge hot desert) but we found it charming with its Victorian buildings, numerous parks and churches, the River Torrens and funny statues such as a pig which excavate a real garbage. And exceptional thing for a major Australian city : $2 beer during happy hour ! Bill Bryson summed up the plight of Adelaide : “It is for Australia what Australia is for the rest of the world: a place of very good reputation but so far we eventually forget its existence”.
- Suggestion: return to Melbourne crossing the Grampians !
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