Articles in the AUSTRALIA Category
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Tasmania, Headline, UNESCO Sites »
Night Wildlife Tour with McDermott’s at Cradle Mountain Tasmania
It has been an excellent week traveling in Tasmania thanks to Tourism Tasmania and Tourism Australia. The food, the adventure, the nature and the wildlife were simply breathtaking. In one of the little adventure I did in Tasmania was the nightlife wildlife tour with McDermott’s Tour at Cradle Mountain.
Cradle Mountain is a mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia. Rising to 1,545 metres above sea level, it is one of the principal tourist sites in Tasmania, owing to …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Tasmania, Food, Headline »
World Greatest Vanilla Slice
You read it right, the world greatest vanilla slice. I stumbled upon the sign in front of a bakery that reads ‘World Greatest Vanilla Slice’ during a pit stop in a town called Ross in between Hobart and Launceston. I was recommended to visit the bakery and it is the well known Ross Bakery.
If you follow our blog, we blogged about the Kiki’s Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便) the Japanese movie where the director was inspired by the Ross Bakery to create some actual scenes in the movie. On …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Tasmania, Food, Headline »
Kiki’s Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便) Ross Bakery, Tasmania
Kiki in the bakery, see the similarity with the picture at the bottom.
If you are the big fan of the award winning Japanese anime movie Kiki’s Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便), Hayao Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli, you will love this. Today I was surprised to visit the real life version of Kiki’s Delivery Service in Ross, a small town in Tasmania Australia.
The Ross Bakery in Ross…
According to the owner of the Ross Bakery, the bakery has inspired Hayao Miyazaki to create Kiki’s Delivery Service’s room …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Tasmania, Headline »
World Longest Single Chairlift at Launceston’s Basin Chairlift, Tasmania
Today I reached Tasmania for the first time after hours in combination of flights and transits. The journey started from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore and from Singapore to Melbourne and finally from Melbourne to Tasmania.
I landed at the Launceston Airport this afternoon and I met the winners of Discover Tasmania contest of Malaysia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. Thus, I also met Singaporean blogger Mel Choi and Hong Kong journalist, Chiew. Hence, I also met local Tasmania tour guides Rose and Di …
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10 Things To Do in Tasmania
We loved to travel to Australia and we have been to places like Canberra, New South Wales and Victoria. There are a few more destinations that caught our attention are the Outback, Western Australia and Tasmania.
Tasmania is one of the most romantic places in the world with its, white sandy beaches, rugged mountains, lakes teeming with trout, quaint sandstone towns, fishing villages and valleys filled with cows and sheep grazing – even the shape of Tasmania is a heart.
If you are looking for love, want …
ADVERTORIAL, ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRESS RELEASES / STATEMENTS, AUSTRALIA »
Express Your Love for Valentine to Win a Holiday to Tasmania
We blogged about Love! Tasmania campaign on our previous post and the possibility of a FREE travel for an 8 Days 6 Nights trip to Tasmania for 2! Hence, we also mentioned all the fun on Tasmania and also the RM 24,000 worth of prizes. Now, it is time to show you all how to enter the campaign.
First of all, it is NOT a Facebook “Like” popularity contest and it only consist 30% of the full criteria. It means even …
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Love! Tasmania Campaign
We grew up watching the Looney Tunes and we loved the cheeky Tasmanian Devil. When we were young, we didn’t know where Tasmania is and we thought Tasmania is Africa (well that’s Tanzania).
As we went to study in Wagga Wagga, Australia more than 10 years ago, we learned about this beautiful island by the name of Tasmania.
We heard so much about this beautiful place. The island is located at the south east of Victoria. We bet you have read our previous adventure in Victoria last year as it …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Philip Island, Australia - Victoria, Headline »
Koala Conservation Centre Philip Island, Victoria
When you mention about animals in Australia, they are kangaroo, koala, wombat, emu, platypus, wallaby and koala bear.
I stayed in Australia more than a year ten years ago and I never seen a live koala bear before. Last year, I finally saw one when I visited the Koala Conservation Centre in Philip Island.
Thousands or maybe millions flock to Philip Island for only one reason, the penguin watching. There are more just penguins on Philip Island and the Koala Conservation Centre is one of them.
My visit …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Victoria, Beaches, Places »
Colourful Mount Martha Beach Huts
We have seen different types of beach huts but not the colourful ones. On our sponsored trip to Victoria Australia earlier year, we stop over at Mount Martha Beach near Mornington Peninsula only for one reason. The beach huts.
Why colourful beach huts?
As I was told, this beach huts are rented by vacationers who kept their boats inside the huts. To identify their huts easier, they coloured the huts differently.
Thus, it naturally becomes a tourist attraction of Mornington Peninsula, how convenient!
We left Mount Martha beach for Frankston …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Melbourne, Australia - Victoria, Featured, VLOG »
VLOG: Bar Tour with Michelle Matthews “Curtin House” Melbourne’
Earlier this year I was sponsored to travel to Victoria, Australia by Tourism Victoria and Tourism Australia. There, I met Michelle Matthews, the founder and author of “Deck of Secrets”. Launched in 2003, the decks were met with instant enthusiasm and helped reinvigorate the travel genre. Now also in digital form, the guides continue to deliver useful, engaging content in innovative formats.
Michelle Matthews showing the “Deck of Secrets”
There I was given a bar tour by Michelle Matthews and this is what the …
Asian Food Channel (AFC), AUSTRALIA, Events, Food, Headline, MALAYSIA, Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur »
The Perfect Cut with Adrian Richardson, J.W. Marriot Hotel Kuala Lumpur
Last week I was invited by Asian Food Channel and Alice George Communications to meet the “Good Chef, Bad Chef” star Australian Chef Adrian Richardson at J.W. Marriot Hotel Kuala Lumpur.
Let me share some of the hard rock data of this Aussie chef.
Chef Adrian Richardson is the owner and head chef of the successful and bustling La Luna, one of Melbourne’s best Mediterranean bistros in North Carlton, where he has been serving up clean, fresh and innovative food since 1999.
Chef …
AUSTRALIA, Australia - Victoria, Food, Headline, Places »
Yarra Valley Dairy Fresh Farmhouse Cheese
One of the highlights of Yarra Valley must be the Yarra Valley Dairy. My recent trip to the region surrounding Yarra River in Australia brought me to the award winning Yarra Valley Dairy. Located in the world class wine region, Yarra Valley offers fresh farmhouse cheese produced with their 200 top quality cattle.
The dairy is a wooden house with a scenic landscape. Some might mistook this as someone’s property.
There were a few exhibits of traditional dairy items as we walked in. The décor is a …
