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Going to Australia for the first time. Tips?


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Is anyone here from or has been to Australia? I'm going there with my girlfriend this christmas and staying there 'til mid january and we've kinda arranged some plans but we'd love to know if there are things we should avoid or have to do, y'know? Any tips? We're arriving in Sydney, planning on staying there for 4 days, then planning on heading to Byron Bay by plane, staying there for 3 days, getting a greyhound to Surfers Paradise staying there for 5 days or so, visiting Movieworld, Dreamworld and Wet N' Wild, then heading for Brisbane, also by greyhound, visiting the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, and staying there for 3 days then getting a plane to Cairns, staying there for 4 days and then heading back to Sydney and back home to Brazil. So... any tips? Thanks.

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Everything kills you. You have, hunstman spiders crawling up the toilet u-bend, venomous snakes, Crocs, Great Whites circling the coastlines (lest not forget poor ole' Harold Holt), Jellyfish the size of the titanic, Bush fires, and the Suns radioactive heat waves, all trying to kill you.

This is how you should dress to blend in with the locals,

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The women are called Sheilas by the way. Make sure you hire an Ute to navigate the country. Pile it with a lot of pissy beer.

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I had a friend who went in 1974 and he had to go to the Australia embassy in NYC and get a work visa. I don't know if this is still a law, but if you stay in Australia more than a few months, you have to find work to stay there.

I know he did some odd jobs while traveling through the country/continent. He was there for almost a year. He loved it.

But that was a long time ago, so the best thing to do is contact someone in the Australia embassy or look online.

I've heard it's beautiful and if you surf it's got the best waves in the world, but watch out for the great white sharks.

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