Its picturesque location on a rocky peninsula which reaches into one of Australia’s most spectacular natural harbours is just one of many reasons to visit Darwin.
Found directly across from Melbourne's best-known landmark Flinders Street Station, Federation Square (which is better known as 'Fed Square') is a melting pot of culture. Here you can visit attractions such as the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the National Gallery of Victocia (NGV). In this podcast Hostelworld.com's Colm Hanratty speaks to Kim Polkinghorne to find out about this great attraction.
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Download Airlie Beach Pocket Guide Download Byron Bay Pocket Guide Download Cairns Pocket Guide Download Melbourne Pocket Guide Download Perth Pocket Guide Download Surfers Paradise Pocket Guide Download Sydney Pocket Guide View all guides »Darwin's quite boring and very small compared to other capital cities in Australia. It's a good place to visit when you are just traveling through it, but wouldn't go there to spend any more time than needed. There's heaps of good-looking men though!
Insider Tip:Don't go there during the wet season! Because of the heavy rains and humidity our stay there was quite awful. Nights spend at Monsoon's are good.
I was warned by Aussies old and young not to bother with Darwin because there's nothing there. They were right. It's great as a jumping off point for Kakadu and Lichtfield but that's it. The night life is average at best and aside from the cinema there's nothing to do during the day time. I couldn't wait to leave.
Insider Tip:Kakadu is amazing and single handedly justifies a trip Darwin. There's not much difference between the various tours on offer other than price abd duration. See the national parks then move on.
A very small town which in my opinion only needs a day to explore but is the gateway to Litchfield and Kakadu National parks which are wonderful.
Humidity was really high! But otherwise nice weather and nice but quite little town. More party town than culture.
Kakadu was too expensive for us so we went on a day tour to Litchfield and it was awesome! Darwin in general is ridiculously expensive.
Sydney is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most spectacular cities in the world. Travelling north, the next city is Brisbane which is also worth a visit en route to Cairns. And with a hippified town and commercialised city in between, the trip between Sydney and Brisbane is one of the most varied in Oz.
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