The plan was to go to the city first where I should be able to get credits for my phone. With that done I could sort out my accommodation and then explore the city. Good plan I thought, go for it!
I already knew that Michael (from my Kiwi bus if you forgot) lived in Adelaide and offered me to crush his couch but I thought that he came the same day and I wanted to give him one day to sort his stuff before knocking on his door.
However when I was in the Optus store in the city guess who just came in to also recharge the phone? Yeah damn right it was Michael!
He told me that he already arrived the day before and if I wanted to sleep on his couch. As I am a very polite gentleman I couldn't do anything but politely accept his offer;)
He lived quite a bit out of town so I went with him to uni to lock my backpacks away and while he was doing something for uni I had to do some business in town.
First of all: booking my return flight to Germany via Kuala Lumpur.
I got to the office with the good feeling to see family and friends soon again and I left quite sad.
I was going to leave Australia on the 16th of May and fly from Kuala Lumpur to Frankfurt on the 25th of May. Leaving Australia so soon made me sad. I love this amazing country and now there are only 2 weeks left for me?
Later on I went to the closest Westpac branch to get some information and after that I was finally able to explore the city a little bit before I had to go back to uni to get my stuff out of the locker and then went to a lecture with Michael.
In town I've also met Emma and Jordan, Michael's flat mates and also my Kiwi bus mates. It was really nice to see them again and they were quite happy to have 'a little piece of New Zealand' back here in their everyday life.
He was doing finance that day and I wanted to see if my English was good enough by now to be able to study in an English speaking country and to my joy it was! I would understand the prof pretty well and even understood a big part of the lecture because it was quite easy stuff and a lot of it was mathematics.
After that was done we went home and as I could live there for free I at least wanted to provide a good dinner once and I made nice steaks with veggies. Delicious! Marvellous! Much!
This evening was a really short one because both of us wanted a little break after 3 weeks of party in New Zealand and so we just watched some movies.
The next days I again went to the city to have a look at the museum, art gallery etc... Adelaide is a fairly small city so the wasn't too much to do and I could almost finish seeing everything by evening.
That night Michael and I went into town to go out and meet some of his friends. Nice guys gotta say and that was planned to be a quite night out turned out to be a little bit more and a really good one too.
I just spent the next day in the flat to chill and relax a little bit after so many weeks of traveling. The sun was shining and it was hot and Michael got a pool in his backyard which was ice cold.
Since it was Saturday we obviously headed out for town again to check out some clubs as Michael told me. However he and me we do have different definitions of clubs.
Mine is a club club with mostly dance floors and his interpretation of a club is more like a bar with a small dance floor. However we again had a good night out even tho I start to miss my clubbing nights with Luke in Sydney and Melbourne.
On Monday my last day in Adelaide I checked out the botanic garden and then took my over night bus to Alice Springs. 20 hrs of joy in a bus yay!
Driving through the outback I can already say it is like and infinite emptiness.
But the first impression was "What the hell! Where do all those damn flies come from?"
There are flies everywhere and they are annoying! They stick to you and always come back and they try to crawl into your eyes, ears and nose...pretty not cool but I was even told that we were lucky with the flies so don't want to know how it is when it's bad!
Arriving in Alice Springs the following afternoon I couldn't do much more to watch the sunset on a hill close by with some people I already met in my hostel.
The next morning my outback tour which will bring me back to Adelaide was going to start and since I was quire tired after my bus ride I just went to my bed and it never felt that comfortable before.
The next morning we had an early start and stopped for some poser/group photos at the Alice Springs sign. What a perfect start for me!
The amazing Group!
From the left: Roy,Nadia, Janni, Fabienne,Shaun, I, Emily,Carols, Sam, Kirsten, Simone&GoeleGoele
After that it was a long long ride under the hot sun of Australia's outback to Kings Canyon. Hilarious!(one of my new favourite words)
On the way we stopped to collect some fire wood because we wanted to start a (bush) fire!
After been almost starving we eventually had a nice lunch to regain some strengths to go for a hike in the magnificent Kings Canyon.
So we had a marvellous 3 hrs hike in the Kings Canyons taking pictures next to deep cliffs which made our guide almost gone mad and seeing the garden of Eden which just has been a waterhole but sincerely b-e-a-utiful.
As you know me this walk also was a lot about taking many and good and funny pictures and I had enough volunteers to join me.
Here we got to know a new tale.
There is a wind in the western desert which is ment to be an evil spirit called Kurpany and it can't go down in the Canyon so that's why it is sacred ( as most other places ).
At our campsite we would also be able to feel and hear the wind. People sometimes wake up in the very very early morning and have a feeling like somebody touches them but since it's pitch black they can't see anyone and it is ment to be the evil spirit of Kurpany (or just a quick skillfulskillful voyeur).
Also the Australians are very uneducated as related to the aborigines. They do have a lot of scars and if you are in the city the Australians will tell you that they got them due to fights between each other.
However they get them during their initiation rites because they use pain to improve the memory of certain skills and stories they learn. They also show other aborigines their skills and kinda form a hierachy between them.
We finished the first brilliant day with a fire and some more stories.
The next day we went to Uluru alias Ayers Rock. Another 4 hrs bus ride because nothing is close to something. Australia.
On the way we passed Mt. Connor another big red monolith.
Getting to Uluru it was really amazing. I know it's just a rock but it looks really cool and there is an atmosphere created by the stories and aborigines which I can't describe in any language.
You just have to go the and experience it yourself since pictures are a poor replacement.
At the rock itself we did half of the basement walk, could see some aboriginal rock art and got some more tales told.
For instance the aborigines hate to be photographed. They believe in reincarnation and if someone takes a picture of them they believe that their soul is trapped and that they can't reincarnate after death.
Uluru itself is much more diverse than expected and got a lot of caves which makes it interesting to look upon even for a longer time because there is always something to see.
After the walk we drove to a nearby hill to have to good view on the rock for sunset and with a beer in the hand and the sun slowly going down we waited for the sunset.
After the sun finally set Uluru started to change its colour to a shiny fire red before getting darker again.
Our guide Steve says it's a live changing experience and it really is!
And again we finished the day with a big fire and some tales before we went into our swags for the night.
Day 3 in the outback. I'm still alive. Plan for the day? Kata Tjuta alias the Olgas. So we passed Uluru on our way to them and then walked through the valley of the winds between the big domes and boulders of Kata Tjuta.
They look majestic and that day a small layer of clouds protected us from the burning sun.
Marvellous. Hilarious. Superb.
After that b-e-a-utiful walk we went for a quick visit in the cultural centre because we surely had to learn something about the history and the magical ancestors of the area. All stories about animals like snakes that behave like humans.
Ticking that off the bucket list we went back to Uluru to finish the base walk and see some more art rock and finish it all with another sunset in front of Uluru.
Guess what: we again had a big fire but this time we didn't finish the day with tales but with a drinking game! Old ring of fire but new and better rules!
The next morning did start really early since we were going to see the sunrise in front of Uluru so we got up at 5am and made our way to the rock where we started with our breakfast and patiently waited for the sun to come out. Since we didn't have enough pictures of Uluru and us with Uluru we used the time we had with a good photo shooting. Again a life changing experience. I'm amazed.
After sunrise we made our long long way to Coober Pedi, our next destination.
After a sunset in the wide emptiness of the outback we finally arrived in Coober Pedy.
Our first non self-made dinner awaited us: Pizza!
This night we would sleep under the hill since our house was dug out of it.
A pretty life changing experience as our guide used to tell us a hundred times. Well yeahbat least the sleep came quick after having some drinks in the evening.
The next morning we could sleep out and didn't have to get up before 7:30am (?!). So after a quick breakfast we had a tour through an opal mine in town and were explained everything about Opals...
Later on the girls went for some Opal shopping and one poor lad was with his girlfriend here and she wanted quite a lot of stuff there....poor boy.
That done we went to a kangaroo sanctuary, the only one in the world.
So again we could feed and pet kangaroos and again heaps of photos were taken and a lot of 'Aaahhh!'s and 'Ooohhh!'s and 'How cute!' could be heard.
Here in Coober Pedy 70% of the locals live under earth because it can get up to 60° Celsius in summer.
That's it already for Coober Pedy and we made our next pretty long way to the Flinders Ranges.
And again we arrived after sunset and first of all had some dinner.
Since that night was our last one we decided to play some drinking games and it were games of the weirder kind and completely different to what is usually played and some games were just crap but what can you do...some better ones followed later on!
The next morning we had a stunning walk in the Flinders Range which included some climbing which I enjoyed most.
By the way here is a fact: the Flinders Ranges are the oldest mountains on earth. So if you care you know more now.
After noon we started our way down to Adelaide but we had another stop on the way.
As we are total alcoholics we had to stop at a winery for some posh wine tasting which turned out that everyone tried about 15 wines and getting nothing...marvellous!
That night we had our last night out in Adelaide and I had to go to the airport very early in the morning to catch my flight to Perth!
All easy, got to Perth in the morning and this awesome city just welcomed me with warm weather and sunshine - couldn't want more!
As you meet a lot of people you met earlier at another place before it happened to me again. I was going out of Hungry Jack's and some retard slapped me ony neck. Turned out this retard was Cenan, my Tassie road tripate! And where Cenan is there is Grischa not far away and we found him next.
So I went on exploring the city with those fellas...much better than alone!
What a view from Grischa's Apartment...
What an amazing City!
My relationship with a kangaroo:
Her name was Sheylas and she was the hottest chick in the meadow and I was in love with her at first glance!
But I had to come out of top of my rivals to get her attention...
...so we spent the whole day together...
...and at the end of the day I only got a kiss.
Kangaroos have a very traditional culture so I had to ask her father for permission to take out his daughter first. But when he saw me he immediately checked in.
After a short while she adapted our western lifestyle and we took pictures for instagram and facebook.
...a lot of happy couple selfies...
And with the time passing by we started a happy family...
The end!
My very last day in Australia I spent in Fremantle with Cenan and Grischa.
Made some money as a street artist...
...chilled at the beach and walked through the street full of cafés and restaurants...nice.
That last evening we had a small penthouse party in Grischa's apartment.
That's it! Good bye my beloved Australia! I'll miss you but I'll come back one day!
However this is not the end of my journey...
