Might as well add some Sydney shots while I'm at it. Don't have much from our first few days here since we stayed in Manly and didn't take many pictures there.

Here is the world famous Sydney Opera house. The day we were leaving to just start out backpacking journey around the country. I'm standing beside the opera house with the nice bridge in the background (think called harbour bridge).

A shot from the ferry ride of Sydney-Manly, this time the bridge and opera house together.
This cool water fountain sculpture in this area called Kings Cross, suppose to be "The" place to go out. Area of town wasn't that impressive, the red light area of town, lots of strip clubs and prostitutes.....ahh, kinda reminded me of home, hehe.
The beach known as Bondi with just a few people there
Another shot of the famous Bondi beach. It is huge but too many ppl, it's the most popular for some reason. The other beaches of Sydney were just as nice but less crowded, great places to sun tan, dip in the water or try surfing.

Our trip of luxury from Taiwan to Australia cause they messed up our tickets. The flight we were supposed to take didn't exist on that day but seeing as our tickets says it did they had to accomidate us. They sent us to Sydney via Brisbane instead and didn't get there much later.

As you can see first class seats are huge! I couldn't even touch the seat infront of me when stretching! Great leather seats with controls to adjust it every which way.
Not a bad appetizer, wouldn't you say.
And we each got our our personal lcd screen to watch whatever tv, movie, etc show we want. How can I ever go coach again!

So here are a few pictures of our week in Taipei (Taiwan) on our way to Australia. It was a great experience but not somewhere I could live, too many ppl, scooters and pollution.

Here is a busy street full of food markets and other niknaks. Busy as hell as you can see.
This is the tallest building in the world, called Taipei 101, hence it has 101 stories. It also boasts the fastest elevator in the world, it reaches like 60km/h if I remember right. We went up top to the lookout and it was quite a spectacular view.

On of our pics looking down from the top of the building. This is a parking lot that is solely for scooters. It's crazy how many of them are in the city! They dart in and out of traffic and kind of do their own thing on the road.

One of the temples we ran into, they do have alot of those.
Statue inside the temple of who it is for, I can't remember since we saw quite a few.
Changing of the guard inside temple right by statue. This hapens every hour and the 2 standing guard can't move and inch on their spot for one hour. In the midst of the ceremony, ppl can come up to them and take pictures, some even laugh and point in their faces since they aren't allowd to move.
Ever want to get your ear wax cleaned out?! I saw this crazy stuff they were doing and took picture. They light this candle like thing in your ear and some how in sucks all your wax out into it, prett interesting and gross at the same time.
Myself trying to walk on the rock path. Suppose to to theroputic or good for you but I thought I'd do it just to test out my manliness of course, hehe. It was no sweat by the way;-)
Another little temple we found lying around the city. (I'm that dot at the bottom)
On our on day trip outside of Taipei, we took a train/bus ride farther north for a hour or two. This is a hill with a walk path up we did and there were little huts the whole way up, kinda cool to look at.
Another temple, this one in the small mountain town we spent walking around
Now this my size of ice cream!!
Trying out some famous dumplings and other delicacies. This is our friend Yao, we all went through engineering in University together. He's now been working over there for a year or so. He showed us around a few nights and helped alot in the translation department.
The Grand Hotel, now that's a hotel! We saw it while travelling about and had to go over there to look around, it's huge. Very nice inside and supposedly it has a secret escape tunnel inside it somewhere but we couldn't find it.

Well I'm now back in Sydney after my 3 months or so of travelling around the amazing country of Oz. I'm now in the process of looking for work and then a place, temporarily staying at a friends place.
Sometime soon I'll put up some Sydney pictures and a few of our time in Taipei.
Keep in touch everybody.

Here's a bunch of various pictures from our time over perth. As you can see I remember mostly the fun drinking nights with my perth friends, their family and other backpackers we picked up along the way (2 german guys we meet in exmouth and a girl from montreal we met in cairns). We did explore the city too but those pics are more boring.


Our 3man drinking games before going out one night.
Cottesloe beach where we spent a few days. I love the fact of sand and grass. I prefer the grass to lie on and nice water to jump into too.
Great sign I ran across. I needed to take a picture.
A pile on photo before we headed out.
The 5 ppl and random braid girl who stayed out till 5am, the others gave up at midnight and went to bed.

Our week road trip on the west coast of Australia. We rented a car in Perth for a week and drove north as high as Exmouth where we spent christmas.

This is use on the beach christmas day. It was a good 39C and humid but that's what the cool ocean is for. We discoverd some giant sand dunes. So hear I am dying in the desert.
Pass the trop adds about 10C to the temp and humidity, this is where you start using the AC of the car.
Our ride of the week, the Hyundai Accent.
A nice picturesque spot called 'Nature's Window' in hte Kalberri gorges.
This place called the pinnacles a little above Perth. Lots of weird rocks standing up everywhere.

Then we jumped on a train down south to adelaide where we caught a plane to Perth on the west coast.

So here are the photos of our outback trip from Alice Springs, with the major highlights being Uluru and Kings Canyon. The big famous rock Uluru. This is like one of my 10 pictures.
This awesome sunset picture I happen to capture.
We slept outside under the stars on these things they call swags.
The trek up Uluru. It is crazy steep and we did this right after sunrise before the sun has time to kill you. The aboriginals ask you not to climb but I think most ppl climb it anyways.

Our truck for the trip that we somehow managed to cram 16 ppl into.

We then left Cairns for the middle of the outback but the Desert Venturer bus tour. It was a 3 day trip to Alice Springs that covered 2200 odd kilometers. Below are some pics from these few days.
A very flat road in the middle of nowhere....wait, is that a telephone booth powered by the sun I see.
The cattle farm we slept at one night.
We all got a turn holding the baby kangaroo. I have to admit, he was pretty damn cute.
I atempted playing the digeridoo adn eventually got out a good solid note.
The biggest termite mound I think I will ever see.