Adelaide Central YHA

Adelaide Central YHA hostel has a great location –  in CBD, minutes to the city’s Adelaide Central Market, restaurants and bars.  You can easily reach the beautiful Glenelg Beach by public transport. The hostel offers dorm and private rooms, bathrooms in good condition, well equiped kitchen, bright common areas with free wifi and free pancake twice a … More Adelaide Central YHA

Alice Springs YHA

Alice Springs YHA is built right in the centre of Alice Springs, easy walking distnace to shops, grocery stores, restaurants and bars. The hostel offers dorms and family rooms, all are airconditioned, you can use free Wifi, a nice pool, well equiped kitcken and common areas. The coolest thing about the hostel (besides it’s in … More Alice Springs YHA

Magnetic Island YHA

This hostel on the beautiful but hot Magnetic island is right next to the Koala Sanctuary. They offer an open air bar and restaurant, a very nice pool (our fav place!) surounded by hammocks, a relaxing area with huge cherry stone cushions and a nice kitchen. You can sleep in dorm bungalows with ensuite bathroom, … More Magnetic Island YHA

Brisbane City YHA

In Brisbane we choosed Brisbane City YHA as our home for two nights. Because it has great location, it’s great if you’re travelling by bus (walking distance to the main bus station) or arrive by plane, as the airport train stops also at the same place as all buses – so again walking distance. Nearby … More Brisbane City YHA

Cairns YHA

We came to Cairns just for one reason – The Great barrier reef. But we found out, that we liked the city – probably also because of our stay at this great hostel. It’s a two storey building with a pool AND a whirpool in the middle, a good equipped kitchen with indoor and outdoor … More Cairns YHA

Melbourne Central YHA

Melbourne Central YHA is, as its name says very Central on Flinders street, the main street to reach Federation square. The Southern Cross Station is just around the corner and one block up, so in walking distance. Not to forget – all the small laneways with lovely cafes and bars are also just steps away. … More Melbourne Central YHA

Magnetic island

Mag… what? Magnetic island? In Australia? Hmmm… interesting –let’s go there! Similar to this was our decision on visiting this small Australian island. Where is it & How to get there? Magnetic island is on the east coast of Australia, south of Cairns and north of Airlie beach. The nearest airport is Townsville, from where … More Magnetic island

Our days in Sydney

We arrived in Sydney just in time for the big event – New Year. Our flight from Hawaii was very bumpy (actually heard people on board screaming for the first time ever). But the first impression of Australia made us forget our flight very quickly. We were a bit worried about the border control (after … More Our days in Sydney