Festival & Flights

Sydney is one of the destinations I just have to go if I'm that close! That's why I decided to book everything as soon as possible:

The recommented hostel(s)from the family I'm staying with at the moment are very central and have good ratings. They'r called YHA Sydney hostels and there are a few different once. For example:

Sydney Central YHA

11 Rawson Pl
Sydney
(02) 9218 9000

110 Cumberland St The Rocks (02) 8272 0900

Sydney Harbour YHA

4 Collaroy St NSW (02) 9981 1177

Sydney Beachouse YHA

But I took this one in the end:

8-10 Lee Street Sydney (02) 9281 9666

Railway Square YHA

because of the simple reason that you can check if they have available rooms at a specific time of period and this one had between the 12th and the 19th of March 2013.

The prices look ok for me, so I decided to book the 4 share female one =). Free WIFI, a kitchen and a pool on the rooftop*wow*nice!

Domestic flight or internal flight:

The airline I'm flying with will be the asian"tiger airways" which had the cheapest flights one way without luggage: 39,99AUS$ so in total with TAX and everything only with hand-luggage: 96,99$!!!

Well cheap and I love the stripy back-wing!

I'm going to have a look at the traveling desintations IN Sydney on another day as most of the trips and tour buses can be booked once you are there as well...

FESTIVAL FUN

The reason why I booked the flight that late was a music festival called "Future Festival"on the 10th of March 2013. I haven't been out since I got here and I'm not sure if I will as I don't really have anybody here yet to go out with. This is why I decided to go at least one expensive day & eve festival, which reminds me a lot of UK's festivals.

I wanna see: #Avicii #NERVO #Seven Väth #Cocoon Heroes #Richi Hawtin #the Prodigy #Boys Noize #Dizzee Rascal #Hardwell #many more!!!

THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The adverts are everywhere in the city!

The Zoo

How can a day be better spent than watching the Australian wildlife? Melbourne's zoo has from Koalas to Kangaroos over Elephants and wild cats a lot to offer!

Cost: 26Aus$ for adults (or go and visit their website for details: zoo.org.au/melbourne)
Private tours and getting close to the seals (for example) cost extra. Other public shows are free once you are inside.

I got lucky when I was just right in time for the seal-show/performance. These animals are very intelligent and well trained when they jump up on the water-stages and inside the water, make "saltos" or wave "hello" or "good bye".

It took me about 3h to get around the Zoo and see ALL of the animals they have. Especially the Koalas and the Kangaroos where one of my preferences once I got inside. The Koalas were a bit far away in the tree as super tired as they didn't move much. One of the zoo-keepers tool me the reason why I couldn't old them in my hands is because the are still wild and not use to people. They have massive claws and because they are quite moody they get aggressive really easily or when they get afraid.

Well, another time another wildlife park in Australia will have Koalas as well as there are so many around Melbourne anyways.

The most exciting area was the one of the Kangaroos and Wallabies. Once you get in, there are no fences or railings. You are totally unprotected inside the enclosure but you will find out pretty quickly why. It's because the Kangaroos here are very chilled and relaxed. They just lie around in the shades and aren't really bothered about people or just used to them. Some of them even came closer and believe it or not, we could touch and stoke/pet them without a zoo-keeper watching. Of yours you need to be careful, no quick and fast movements otherwise they can stand on their tails and kick you very hard.

A once in a lifetime experience!!!!!<3 love them!!!!!!*happy*

After wandering around a bit longer around I came to the "butterfly-house" another Zoo-keeper told me if the wings of a butterfly are torn or ripped it means it's probably an old butterfly, if the edges are sharp it's a young one, because from all the flying and coupling the wings will get damaged. What is old for a butterfly? About 3 weeks. And they can't hear, they can only see colours and flowers in rasters. I was also asking him how he can keep track of the number of butterfly which are in the house, I mean how do you count them? He said, that every species has only one bush or tree where they lay egg on. This is how the zoo keeper can collect them and breed them somewhere else. He also told me that if you have a lot of different butterflies in one glass-house they misunderstand their coloured wings and chase after each other as a sign of territory.

The monkey area was the loudest but they come very close to the glass, especially the gorilla (see picture below). Funny & fast climbers!

Last but not least, I came to the Elephant area, everything is nicely decorated in indian style with indian signs and it's close by to the tiger.