What Melbourne lacks in cohesiveness, it gains in quirkiness.Melbourne has worked to define itself as business capital with lots of housing stock. Melbourne wants people to move there from other parts of the country, where life is a little boring, and it shows...
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The famous Bondi Beach.
Sydney Bondi-Cogee Coastal Walk
Bondi Beach is famous for its super hot, sexy surfer people. Yes, I did see quite a few of them. A visit to Bondi Beach was definitely on the list but it was the entire coastal walk from Bondi to Cogee that really got me…
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Sydney Blue Mountains Tour
At one point in my Australia planning, I was more concerned with getting a photo of me holding a koala bear than anything else. Apparently, koala bears frequently carry syphilis…
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Sydney, Australia
I love Sydney because it is a mix of internationalism, urban progress and nature. Sydney is a truly international city: a place where people around the world come to live and to become a Sydney-person. Of course you have plenty of travelers from around the world too, but what I loved was how, similar to New York, you see people from all walks of life, with different skin colors and slightly different accents, all being a part of Sydney...
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Loukweria Village, Tanna Island, Vanuatu
When I had started getting really excited about the prospect of giving myself a year to travel wherever I wanted, I went on AirBnb and just looked for places around the world where I could live in a "village". Tanna Island, Vanuatu came up. The post read that you could live with a local family in a village that has descended from a very old tribe following the native "kastom" tradition. The tribe would welcome you with a dance. You would get a sense of village life in the midst of the beauty of Tanna Island. This prospect got me so excited to travel. It would be so different than anything I had ever done before...
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