We are Brigit and Ori and we love backpacking! We met while traveling in Africa back in the 1990s. Now, 30 years later, we hit the road again. Our plan is to cover 6 continents in the following year. We want to travel overland as much as possible. We don't wish to "country-count", so when staying in a country, we are going to make the most of it. We go on a budget, that means no luxury hotels or all-inclusive resorts. Everything we need is in our backpacks. We care about the environment, minimize our footprint and always prefer local services. In our videos we share our experience and hope to inspire other independent travelers. These are 4k videos, so we encourage you to watch on a large screen from the comfort of your arm-chair. All the music is original and is written by Tamir & Ori, all thumbnails and graphic design is done by Nofar. Please respect our efforts on these videos, and contact us if you plan to use it.
Such a lovely video, and you are two very lovely people. I was born in Sydney and lived here most of my life, and your video brought back fond memories of places here I know well, but have not been to for many years.......thank you, and please come back sometime💗.
Thanks for your video. Spotting koalas is very difficult. You might have walked directly underneath one and not seen it. If it's any consolation, I've lived in Australia for 70 years and used to do a lot of bushwalking, but I have probably seen fewer than 20 wild koalas in that time. I now live in an area with a small population of koalas and in 10 years I have seen abour 4. They are here, but are very difficult to spot. Have a great trip in Australia!
Thanks Mike, it's great to hear that you did have a few koala encounters! We stretched our necks long on many of our walks in Queensland, but couldn't find any. Finally we spotted one "almost wild" in Magnetic island, the video will be uploaded soon, so stay tuned!
Him calling an ibis bird a bin chicken is absolutely feral! They are a fantastic majestic high flying bird that deserves more respect. Maybe if humans didn’t leave their trash lying around
Bluebottle tentacles will inject you with a neurotoxin that's very painful for a few hours, but not usually life threatening. Box jellyfish are usually found much farther north, off the coast of Queensland.
Be careful touching trees and leaves in Australia. In tropical North Queensland there is a tree called the Gympie-Gympie tree, the leaves have tiny nettles that get under the skin and can't be removed, some people suffer with the pain for years.
I am pleased you filmed the climb/walk at kings canyon as I couldn’t do it, so nice to see what I missed. However I did the valley walk which was lovely. I am pleased they stopped the uluru climb, it was disrespectful to the people who hold it sacred and it also needs to be protected.
I climbed Uluru when I was 5, that's 43 years ago and still remember it like it was yesterday. I'm glad they've stopped the climbs though, it seems everything we touch eventually gets ruined. Enjoy your visit to Arnhem land.😊❤
In the late 1960's/ early 1970's Murrays Beach was earmarked to be the site of Australia's first Nuclear Power Station. That's why the carpark is so huge, that was all levelled to be part of the construction site. Fun fact, it was our conservative party that stopped the project.
A group of kangaroos "roos" is called a Mob. Wallabies are smaller than a roo. Also Wallabies tend to be seen on their own as roos stay more in packs "mobs".
The opera house desighn in the roof sections are like slices of oranges if you put all the roofs togeather you will end up with a circle . And all the tiles are modular sections to that can be replaced if needed. Its actually in the history of the opera house and the dutch desighner that won a competition for the desighn of sydney opera house. It is a beautiful city and Australia is the best country/ continent in the world.😊👍🇭🇲🦘👋
Thankyou for gracing us with your visit and welcome from Yuin first nations people (NSW South coast). Hopefully the autumn chill isn't too cold and if you are blessed with sunny days Sydney is ringed by national parks with some beautiful walking trails. It's the perfect time to get into the bush for a walk, it's not too hot and the snakes have gone to bed for their long sleep until next spring. Just if you're a bit apprehensive after hearing or reading about our so called killer wildlife take it from someone who knows, it's all exaggerated hype that couldn't be further from the truth. Even in summer you have a better chance of seeing a UFO than you do if seeing a snake or venomous spider. They are more scared of us than we are of them. Snakes will be gone before you even know one was there and you will only see a spider if you go looking for one so enjoy the experience and look out for the variety of different plants and wildlife you might see, not for anything that might jump out and bite you. The only thing that might bite you will be some of the prices you have to pay, especially alcohol.
thank you, dingo for the tips... we are already further north in Queensland, but we will be returning to Sydney on our way back home. I hope to see more of NSW!
The Rocks are the sandstone buildings and brick buildings at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The stairways were carved out of the rocks. It just a few colonial era streets, that now have tourists shops, pubs and cafes.
