I'm going to write about my trip to Darwin and Cairns in the coming weeks. I'm going on a road trip with my friends from Melbourne Univeristy: Susanna and Sophie. I will upload photos as soon as possible.
The van we had rented were old and rusty, but it was cheap and had some paintings on the sides of asses which lead us to give it the name ' the butt-mobile' after a while. After we had bought food for three days we left Darwin, heading for Litchfield national park. It was nice to leave Darwin where the temperature approached 32 degrees. Several people we had asked had recommended Litchfield, which is much smaller then the most popular park: Kakadu, which is described as a 'small country'. We wondered if they meant the Vatikatan State or Belgium.
On the road towards Litchfield we saw smoke, which made us worry a bit about bush-fires, but the smoke were luckily not wide-spread and eased after a while. The roads became more winding and after a couple of hour of driving we had reached our first stop: Burley Holes. These holes were beautiful rock lagoons that had been formed from the stream in the middle of the forest. We had a really nice and refreshing swim.
We arrived at the camping site at sunset. It was a basic camping with some BBQ-plates and showers. The camping were made up of spaces located around the some winding small roads. We did not see any free spots and even if there were a lot of free space on several spots, we all felt very polite and swedish and ended up a parking spot eventually. We prepared a lovely barbeque meal and started chatting with this two middle aged australian dudes that were on a road trip as us. They were quite funny, but we left them quite early for a refreshing sleep. They joked about us being lame and old and that we should party more, but we enjoyed to go to bed at 10 pm. The van was too small to extend the legs fully, but we all fell asleep after I had given some ear plugs to Susie and Sophie to help them cope with my snoring.
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