I would like to travel on my own to oz. Can anybody give any info and how to go about it?

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Bella B

You'll love Australia.

There is so much to see and do.

Northern parts (north of the Tropic of Capricorn - cuts through Rockhampton) don't travel from October to March approximately. This is wet season and it is HOT and very humid. Roads can often be closed during this period of time.

Cape York is tropical and very lush. This can be a difficult area to traverse and a tour group or travelling with others may be useful.

Cairns is a great place to step off to other places including the reef (Great Barrier Reef), Kuranda, Port Douglas and the Tablelands like Millaa Millaa, the lava tubes and a few other things.

Longreach and Winton have a number of "Outback" experiences including the Stockman's hall of Fame, QANTAS museum, Waltzing Matilda museum and access to the only or one of a few dinosaur stampedes.

The Great Barrier Reef islands such as the Whitsunday's and others are nice as are some of the coastal towns. Fraser Island is the largests and island in the world and for a few months every year humback whales visit for some holidays.

Brisbane is a bit of a launch point to both coasts (Gold and Sunshine). The hinterlands behind each coast are lovely - Maleny and area behind the Sunshine Coast and Lamington and Springbrook areas behind the Gold. Out to the Downs (Toowoomba has a garden festival late August or September) and Jondaryan Woolshed celebrates farming of yesteryear and has a festival late August. The Darling Downs is a farming area...

There is a lighthous at Byron Bay and that region has a hippie vibe (in parts at least)

Sydney has plenty of things to see. Go behind Sydney to the Blue Mountains to places like Katoomba and the Jenolan Caves.

Broken Hill has a lot of artists and art instalments.

In Victoria you have Melbourne and the Grampians, the great Ocean Road, Ballarat... Hanging Rock is the setting for a Mt Macedon are and is the setting for a popular book and movie called PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK.

Tasmania there is a lot of wilderness including Cradle Mountain. Port Arthur is an old convict jail.

In South Australia you have Adelaide and the surrounding wine regions and Cooper Pedy which is an opal mines region and everything is underground!

Souther Western Australia you have Perth and Fremantle and the Mary River region and Rottnest Island. Up north there is Monkey Mia and Ningaloo as wellas the region on the northern point near the WA NT boarder.

In the Northern Territory you have Darwin and out to Kakadu. Alice Springs and Uluru.

I've probably missed stuff but that's a good start and I've popped on a stack of internet sites for you to access

203

Go on the internet, book a flight, go to airport, get on plane, job done!

pixie

Do you have a STA travel branch near you? (Look them up online) they have a lot of info and knowledge on backpacking Aus, they can help you out with visas, travels, trips even info nights. They helped me heaps.
Also look up Oz Experience, it's a fantastic hop-on-hop-off bus network around Oz, the bus Drivers offer to book your accommodation and trips or you can do it all yourself, the drivers are great fun and full of info.

Good luck.

door.uk

Passport, ticket, plane ...good luck

veg_rose

Follow Dorothy up the yellow brick road.

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Holiday or to live here?

To live here see if you qualify, look at Immigration for Australia website - http://www.immi.gov.au

To Holiday, depending where you are from, visitors visa, Passport, plane ticket and spending money !

Good Luck

lladnylnavillus

Just come over. Of course it does depend on whether immigration will let you through the gates at the airport!

on.the.bit.

Ive been to australia, its generally a really safe place, much more so than north america.
i would suggest going to perth, melbourne, brisbane, and areas in southern NSW, southwest WA. those are the nicest places.
australian coastal cities can have what is called a "hoon" problem (drunken teens and young adults partying) but they really just leave you alone.
overall though, its a great country so have fun!

Ozmaniac

If you're from one of the working holiday arrangement countries and are aged between 18 and 30, get yourself a passport, a return air ticket and a working holiday visa and come on down. You'll also need about AUD2500 cash reserves.

Backpack around the country staying in hostels which are a fantastic source of friends, travelling companions and information on available work. Thousands of travellers do this every year and have a great time. Australia's a very safe country and people everywhere are very friendly and helpful, so even if you're travelling on your own, you won't have any problems.

If you're not from an arrangement country, get yourself a 3 month visitor visa. You won't be allowed to work, but backpacking and hostels are still the most enjoyable and cheapest way to go.

http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/index.htm for info on working holiday and visitor visas.

And this site has heaps of other useful info on all kinds of things including hostels:
http://www.bugaustralia.com/essentials/

Maree L

Hello. You would have to apply for a working visa if you where outside aussie. Than as soon as you get here all you have to do is know the right people and fruit pick your way around like i did. It is a good life and good money and you get to meet so many nice people. You could buy a cheap car and caravan and that is good or stay at the accommodation that farms have and some is good and some is bad. I have been around a few times but not everywhere and i want to go again. Love it. Hope this helps. Good luck...

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