My Trip Back Home To Nepal - Reewaj

We just got off the plane and I felt the cold but a heartwarming wind. I was finally home.

It was dark. I just came from a 15 hour flight and I was exhausted. My uncle picked me up  from Kathmandu Airport. We then went to his house, I met his friends. 

We met up with my family and went to sleep in their house. When I woke up the next day I still felt tired. We went around the city trying out different foods. We tried street foods such as ladoo, barfi and other indian sweets. We then had dinner at night, we went to a nepali restaurant, and I had cheese dosa. Back when i was young i didn't know why there wasn't any beef but being in my home country i learnt about my culture and religion. I learnt that we weren't allowed to eat beef because the cow is a sacred symbol in our religion. 

My family then went to one of the biggest temples in nepal. We went to the Shri Pashupatinath Temple. The Shri Pashupatinath Temple is roughly 5km north of Kathmandu (where we were staying). We walked around the huge temple, and they were doing pujas to the public. The puja is when religious devoted people of the temple say prayers to us, whilst putting a mix of rice and red dye on our forehead called tika. They then throw panchamrit (sweet milk) on us. They also let me taste the milk. It was really sweet and tasty. We then went around the temple and prayed to the gods by getting down and offering a plate of bananas, apples, ladoos, burfi and Sel roti.

The temple was giving free food which was rice, daal, spinach and goat meat. This was the most popular food to have in Nepal, I didn't know why and I still don't. What I did know is that it tasted bad. Goat meat is kind of stringy. When you bite into it, little strands of meat gets

stuck between your teeth, it was very uncomfortable.

We went back to our relatives house where we slept, but this time we woke up early. Our time was up in kathmandu. There were still many more places we needed to visit in nepal. We ended up going to a new city in Nepal called pokrah. We ended up spending 1 week in kathmandu. 

Pokrah was still a pretty big city. We went to meet my grandparents (dad's side). We stayed at their house and (of course) had more rice and goat meat. We didn't stay long though. We then took a taxi to my home town. Wailing is a country-side town and wasn't built up like Pokrah and kathmandu. I went to my grandma's house where I met up with my childhood friends. Later that day we went down to the river next to my house and swan.

At the river my two uncles set up fish traps with pieces of bread. When we came back from swimming I was astonished to see that there were actually fish in the trap. After swimming I hiked the mountain behind all the houses in the picture above. We went to my friend's house which was on top of the mountain. He had a farm up there, with cows and chickens. Other than that we stayed at my grandma's house and met more family and friends for another 2 weeks. Then 2 weeks later I realized that my holiday had come to an end.

We then returned back to Kathmandu where we boarded our flight. Whilst i boarded my flight i felt like i took an experience away from this, but i didn't know what it was, maybe it was the spiritual power from the temple or maybe it was seeing family again, what i do know is that i will never forget this experience.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my experience in my home country nepal! 

My Travel Experience in Nepal - Prasanta

 My travel experiences have been amazing. I have been to lots of places around the world and In sydney, But my best experience was when I travelled to Nepal. While travelling to Nepal I had to stop at Singapore and it was a nice place, it had really cool restaurants  and foods to eat. After leaving Singapore and taking the plane to Nepal I saw lots of houses and lights. It looked like they always had a party. Arrived! I had finally arrived at Nepal's airport and I could see my aunties and grandparents waiting for me. I took a bus with my grandparents and aunties to a place in Nepal called Chitwan.

This is a photo of Chitwan, this is one of the roads I went through to get to my house in Nepal. 4 hours later I finally reached my house. It was a very long drive but I was happy. When I went upstairs into my house I saw more of my family. It was amazing. Everyone laughed and talked but it was getting a bit late so we all went to sleep. When I went into my room it was massive, it was pretty much twice the size of my bedroom in Australia. After waking up I felt great. I had an amazing nap. It was around 7:00 in the morning and my uncle opened his shop around that time so I went down to help him.

My uncle's shop is right under my house so I can keep going up and down. While I was there with my uncle I had to go and deliver people food and milk across the road. It was really fun because I got to see other stuff on the way.I was done helping my uncle so I went to my dad who came with me to Nepal. So my dad planned to go to a jungle where we can ride elephants. My grandparents and uncle were going to come with us. I could not wait. I just wanted to run there. A few hours later we got to the jungle area, my jaw just dropped. It was amazing. I could see elephants, deers I could even see a rhinoceros.

This is what it pretty much looks like to ride an elephant. It's a very fun experience. It was such an amazing experience for me too. I felt like I should just live in Nepal. After we had finished riding the elephants we went to a place called Pokhara. It was insane there. I saw so many boats and canoes sadly we weren't able to go on one but looking at them felt just as good.

These are the canoes in Pokhara. It was an amazing experience in Nepal. I believe everybody should travel to Nepal. It is an amazing journey with lots of things to see that you won't be able to see and visit around the world. I wish I could visit Nepal every second and relive the same moments.

What It's Like To Stay In Pakistan - Johnathon

Pakistan is a great place to go, people are very nice over there, the airports there are very clean, and there are a lot of places you can explore. The food in Pakistan is very nice and the culture is very bright. I recently went to Pakistan in 2020. I went before the pandemic hit, which was very lucky. It was winter at the time, it got really cold at night.

I remember waking up at 6 am in my bed, to the noise of my family getting prepared to leave the house to go to the airport. Once we had arrived at the airport we did all the usual stuff like the security checks and luggages. We arrived at the gate and went inside the plane. The flight was from Australia to thailand. When we arrived in Thailand I ordered some hungry jacks inside the airport, the food there was twice as much as what is served in Australia. I couldn’t finish it all but I ate a hefty amount. We went on our next flight which was around 6 hours to pakistan. We landed in Pakistan and went through the security measures. We met up with my cousins and uncles right outside the airport, and we took a taxi home.

While in Pakistan I visited many of my cousins' homes, we were served a lot of traditional foods, like halva, kulcha, naan, pi, niharee, etc. the food tasted very good and it was a lot of fun being around with my cousins. We also visited a couple of malls. One mall that caught my attention was insanely big and had a lot of shops inside them, like restaurants and clothing to hotels and pubs. The mall had a lot of security, many of the guards holding assault rifles. 

Going deep into pakistan, where a lot of people lived, was very dirty and smelled awful, although the people that lived there did not mind it at all, I suppose because they had lived their entire lives there. On the streets there were many different shops, it felt like there was a shop for everything, your motorcycle is broken? No worries there's a repair shop down the bottom. The streets were very noisy and the traffic was really bad, it was as if there were no laws for traffic, people were crossing the road without a second look into oncoming traffic, people seemed very used to it.

One thing I noticed was that a lot of people loved flying kites, there were many different types of kites and a lot of the time people would try to take down other people's kites with their own by creating friction between the strings while in the air. While i was in Pakistan i went to my cousin’s wedding, it was a lot of fun, there was dancing, singing, a variety of food and drinks.

My favourite part was just being with my cousins and hanging out, we would often stay up to 1 am just talking about stuff, it was by far the most enjoyable moment in Pakistan. Leaving was very emotional for a lot of us (my family, and cousins), knowing that i wont see them in a really long time made me feel a bit upset but i was glad that i could be there.

 

Tierra Alta - Dian

 It was my mum’s birthday where we decided to go to Tierra Alta for a photoshoot.

Everyone in my family came including my cousins, uncles, aunties and my grandparents.

We travelled by van for about 2 hours, the music was playing out loud and everyone in the van was vibing. We also had some munchies such as snacks and drinks.

I sat at the back with my cousins near the window.I love looking out the window when travelling, i got to see the beach and greenlands as we drove past it.

We stayed at a hotel near the place, it was really fun because they had a pool so me and my cousins went swimming in the afternoon after we had lunch.

We got ready and prepared for the photo, we prepared our gown and hired a makeup artist to do all our makeup.

After we got ready, we proceeded to the tierra alta which was about a 20 minutes drive.

When we arrived it was calming and was breezy since it was kind of on a mountain, the grass was green, there were paths and bushes and also the tower.

I felt like a princess back then I wore a red gown and my hair was put into a bun.

My Experience in the Phillippines - Carlos

The experience when i was in the Philippines was great for me and my mum, we took a break from school and work but we also went back because my mum dad died at the age of 90. In 2019, we went to see my mum cousin and  we stayed in Manila for about 2 weeks we rented an apartment for our family and my cousins me and my cousin just mostly stayed at the swimming pool because it was always hot and we didn't really go anywhere except to going to the carnival on a raining day so we couldn't really do anything but go to the arcade and go to the haunted house. After staying in Manila for 2 weeks we went to Batangas where my mum's cousins were residing. There were many people there that I have met but that was when I was very young. We held a funeral for my mum's dad. I didn't really know him because my mum and her sisters/brother went to Australia before I was even born.

My Trip to Singapore - Anushka

 About 3 years ago was my first time coming to Australia. I was coming here to live as a permanent resident. It took about 13 hours by airplane and almost a day to arrive. The day of the departure was sad that I'll leave but excitement filled the sadness. I was with my brother and my grandmother. My grandma couldn't speak English. It was easy to get on the plane from Nepal since we can speak Nepali. First hour on the plane was normal and exciting. We got ourselves a drink and I helped my grandma with hers. We had entertainment provided so it wasn't boring either.

Few hours later, we got bored. I was really tired so I slept and my brother and grandma stayed awake.  It was also my first overseas trip. 4 hours passed by soon and we landed in Singapore. We had our flight to Australia after a 5 hours rest there. It was Christmas day so it was very amusing. I slept there too. It wasn't a great trip for me because I slept most of the time but it was my first time being so long on an airplane.

We departed from Singapore soon and we were accompanied by some people helping my grandma as she was older. It was new for me and my brother. But, both of us were very excited. Nine hours long journey was waiting. I was no more sleepy and enjoyed the outside view instead. I was over the ocean. We weren't next to each other this time. So I had a different seat partner. She was nice but looked annoyed because of us. I thought I wasn't sleepy but I slept in no time. Before I knew it, we arrived at the Sydney Airport. We were waiting for my mum to pick us up. We got our bags off and my mum picked us after an hour.

None of us had Australian sim cards so it was hard to contact my mum. However, we were provided with that at Airport so it was not a bad experience. I stayed all night looking around my house and since I slept through the trip, I wasn't tired.

My Travel Blog to Fiji - Aaliah

 My Travel blog to Fiji

In 2019 on 2nd June I flew over to Fiji with my family to Viti Levu in Nadi Airport . Then we caught a taxi and went to our hotel where we were staying for one night, dropped our bags off , then went to explore, had their famous chicken express after we ate, went to our families house then went back to the hotel . The next morning on the 3rd of june we left for the next island called Vanua Levu,  Labasa up there where my grandparents lived . We arrived around 3pm and we caught a taxi and left for my grandparents house on the way to see the three sisters . Oh oops I forgot to tell you guys that I went to Fiji to celebrate Eid and I ended up fasting the next day . On the 10th of June I went and got my nose pierced and after some days we went out to the beach and had a picnic with lots of families from my dad's side . We hired a car so we ended up going to many places. We went to the suburb where we can see the waterfall and went to the port, saw amazing fishes and went to a indian restaurant and had amazing fresh food. Then we headed back to my grandparents house. We went to Fiji for a month and more . We to markets every morning and ate sugarcane fresh from the farm, brought lots of food that we brought with us back , ate fresh Fiji bread, experienced bus travelling , meet poor people gave them charity ,  went on walks to dairy shops where we brought lollies and smokes and one last thing forgot to say is a day before we were coming back my dad brought Kava that he brought with me and it is 4kg and the roots he grinded the Kava into powder then brought long with us and I personal drink Kava and it is good it is basically mud . But it was an amazing trip. It was my third time going to Fiji. Before we left we went back. Nadi stayed over at my  family's house then left from there to Sydney and landed in Sydney at 9 am morning .

 Thank you for reading my blog.

2018 - Minto to Sydney! - Jack

In 2018, we had a fun journey into our city, Sydney. It was about 10 in the morning and we were waiting at the train station, ready to make our journey into fun. It had hit 11:10 by the time our train had finally arrived into Town Hall station; the closest one to my Nan’s apartment building and from there we made our way to the giant skyscraper and met with my Nan inside, we greeted each other and with that my parents and me settled into the place; it was small but it had a nice atmosphere with a beautiful view across Hyde park and some parts of the city, there was also some old military boats in sight which added to the scenery.

// no pictures of the boats :( //

After that it was just about tea time and my parents, Nan and Orlando (my Nan’s partner) had some tea and I stuck with Milanesa which is a nice thin-cut breaded meat and some rice; we sat there talking for a while that I'm sure was about how things may have been in the city and Minto. Within 30 minutes or so we later left the building and we moved into the streets of the city and so our family walked around awhile, checking out some of the shops. One of the shops I remembered had a lot of knitting supplies and so we checked out there to have a little look around. The next stop was one of the big malls in the city, specifically Westfield and browsed around there for a while but I don’t think we ended up leaving with anything, things there are slightly expensive. 

After browsing around in Westfield we ended up going around more and going through a clothes-store near Chinatown though I don’t remember the store name. Then we went into Chinatown, which had one of my favourite stores; named Morning Glory, also near Haymarket (suburb). Morning Glory sells things like Albums and Merchandise from South Korea, candies too.

After we’d been done with that, we headed back to my Nan’s building and for an hour or so we just relaxed there before we headed for the train station to go back home. And that was my 2018 trip to Sydney.

I haven’t gone in a long while and I hope to go again sometime soon to visit my Nan and Orlando in the city. I want to see if things have changed and I want to see some of the pretty views again. From what I remember the trip was fun, so hopefully I go again soon!

Trip To Vanuatu - Talesha

I went to Vanuatu in January 2020. I went to two different islands there, Port-Vila and Mystery island. When I went to Mystery island there were a lot of little shops there. There were braiding shops, coconut and food shops, jewelry shops that included bracelets, necklaces, anklets and more.

It was a very small island and it had water surrounding the whole island. You can do heaps of things on this island. I went snorkeling. We went about 15 minutes from shore and were snorkelling around the coral area. After that we swam to where there were heaps of fish and we fed them.There were heaps of fish and a lot of different kinds of fish.

You can also jump off this bridge into the water.  A lot of people were walking around drinking from coconuts or eating lobsters. After Mystery Island we went to Port-Vila island, this island was more interesting and fun. There were people in the back of people's trucks while they were driving, when we went to the Blue Lagoon it was very nice. The water was crystal clear and there were people swinging off ropes and trees. We also went to swim with turtles, and saw sharks. That's my experience of Vanuatu.

       

My Awesome Trip To Canberra - Noah

I don’t really travel all that much but one trip that I remember and really enjoyed was my trip to Canberra. About 4 years ago, a few friends and I went to Canberra for a school event. I was a little nervous but also really excited because it was the furthest I had ever been away from home. The trip was mostly to see the Parliament buildings.

The trip started on the bus from school. The bus was two storeys and of course I was up on the second one! It took a very long time for us to get to Canberra, about 4 hours in total. We were planning to stay there for a week.

Once we arrived, we took our suitcases off the bus and we had to drag it along for 5 minutes until we reached our hotel. The teachers gave us our very own keycards so we could get into our rooms. We were then assigned groups so we could be with our friends. Once we chose our friends we could not swap rooms. They were identical twins in our group and I was the only one who could tell them apart!

The first activity that we did was to visit Questacon. There was this big slide that was so steep that you had to wear a special suit to slide down. The line was huge but I didn’t mind waiting; there were probably three staircases going straight up. When I finally reached the top, it was much higher than I thought! The way we had to go down was told on to a bar and press our chin down. When it was my turn, I didn't mean to let go because I was scared! Eventually I let go and I zoomed down! My heart was racing -  I was frozen in fear! Eventually I unfroze and all of us left the giant slide. We went up a ramp and then we reached this big room. The thing that caught my eye was this giant cage which had a sign hanging above it and it said ‘electric cage’. It had a timer to go off in a minute. I was curious so I waited around until a minute elapsed. All of a sudden this big crashing sound started to happen; one of my friends said, “It made me jump six feet in the air!” Then when I looked at the electric cage it was lightning in the cage. 

I really enjoyed this trip because all the technology in Questacon was awesome. I would really recommend a trip there!

My Time in New Zealand - Azhar

When I used to live in New Zealand I went to various points in New Zealand. These points include the furthest point in New Zealand, the sand dunes and the New Zealand Zoo. I can not recall the proper dates because I was only a child but I do remember the experiences. When I was a little boy I went to a zoo and we visited some very rare tigers - they were white! And we got to cuddle and pat them!

Another one of my experiences was when we went to the giant sand dunes in Cape Reinga, we drove there in our blue 4 door eg Honda Civic. When we arrived my dad had the idea of driving the car on to the sand dunes so we did but after covering a few kilometres the cars wheels slowly dug intoin to the sand and the car got stuck. We were stuck in the giant sand dunes, we had no way to get the car out but luckily a 4x4 drove past and towed us out. Once we were towed out of the sand dunes we parked the car on the car park and checked it out. It was very warm it was weird especially for a country like New Zealand which is very cold. 

Those are all my experiences in new zealand and i personally enjoyed them and i hope you enjoyed reading them

Hello, people! This is my trip to Queensland! - Scarlett

Hello people of Tourism stage 5, I am on your screen today to tell you all about my amazing trip to Queensland and to be specific I will be talking about when I swam in the Great Barrier Reef. 

In 2018 I took a trip with my family of 5 other people so 6 including me and we packed our stuff on Monday a week before christmas and took a 29 hour road trip to Port Douglas in Queensland where we would stay at a hotel until christmas day where we would leave in the afternoon. The first time we stopped at queensland it was about 6am on Tuesday to stop at a cafe and eat some breakfast, the cafe was very nice it was right next to a beach which had many people surfing while other people were out and about but the thing that I was surprised about was that the people walking around and the people surfing had looked like they were up for hours, while I on the other had was starving and tired from the car ride here.

I think it was about Thursday when my dad called Charlie (brother), Peter (step brother), Olivia ( step sister) and myself  to the living room in the hotel. Once we all settled down and took our seats on the lounge he said that today would be a different type of day so instead of going to the theme parks we would be going our separate ways. He said that Sarah (my step mum ) was going to take Olivia and I somewhere where we needed to wear our swimmers  and then he would take Peter and Charlie somewhere.

From there we all hopped into the car and we drove to some shops near a beach. From there Sarah, Olivia and I hopped out of the car and looked around at the shops as we still had time until our surprise, so Sarah took us to a nearby Hog’s Breath Cafe where we ate some amazing food while sitting outside and looking at the view of the quiet beach. When we has finished our lunch Sarah had told Oliva and myself that our surprise is that we would be snorkeling in the Great Barra Reef, hearing this news Olivia and I actually got along for once because we were so excited that we behave ourselves so there we no chance that Sarah would call it off.

When we had finished paying for our food we all walked down to the docs where from there we would wait in a line to get onto our boat. When I saw the boat I was a little disappointed as I was expecting to have a boat the size of a cruise, whereas this one was the size of a fairy. We waited about 5 minutes in the line before we hopped on the boat. Once the boat was moving some crew people came around the boat to hand us wetsuits, flippers, snorkels,weird looking goggles and pool noodles so that if we got tired we chill and float, they also told us the rules about swimming in the reef and they also told us that we should be careful because it was the time of year for jellyfish to be around. 

By the time everyone got ready the boat was already at the island. Well I wouldn't really call it an island more like a pile of sand in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef. Once everyone had hoped off the boat one of the crew ladys told us that for the first couple of minutes that we were going to swim in the reef that if we would like we could follow her and she would show and tell us about the animals and plants that call the reef home. I looked at Sarh to ask if it was ok if I could go with the mini tour and she said that Olivia and I can just go and swim but if we wanted to go with the crew member we could. So with that I hopped in the water and followed the crowd, as we swam around with the guide telling us about the reef I keepted looking down into the water looking at the fish that swam away when we got too close and the bright coral just wondering how amazing it looked.

 When the mini tour was over and we went our separate ways. I decided to swim away from where most of the other people were hanging out because I wanted to look at the magical world under the water by myself in peace and quiet. As I was swimming I was amazed by not only the amount of fish I saw but the size of them, because when you find fish at a beach they are normally the tiny fish but these fish were huge bigger then my hand. There was one fish in particular that I was really interested in and it wasn’t because it was lacking the bright colour that all the other fish had. This fish caught my attention because it was following me and when I would look at it it would hide in nearby coral, so for maybe 10 minutes I was just swimming and playing hide and seek with this fish. 

After the fish got bored and left me I was still swimming around looking at the coral, while I was swimming and chilling I thought to myself that the Great Barra Reef under the water looked like Las Vegas but for fish. After we had our swim we had to head back to the Island but on the way there was a turtle and it was so close that when I was swimming back to the Island I swam so close to it I could touch it. When everyone got onto the land we had to take off our wetsuits, goggles, flippers and give back our pool noodles before we could hop back on the boat. After we arctived back on the dock dad and my brothers were waiting to pick us up and from there we drove back to the hotel and by the time we got back had showers, got dressed into our pajamas and had dinner I was exhausted from the day that I hopped into bed and fell asleep straight away. 

 

La Perouse - Ruby

 

My Luna Park Adventure - Taleah

Luna Park is a fun amusement park in Sydney. It opened in 1935, 85 years ago. I used to go to Luna park every year for Christmas with my family. We used to stay for hours and because we went so often we knew exactly what rides we wanted to go on first. It’s pretty affordable for a family trip and a fun day out. It has many fun rides and they add rides for the family, the rides are all child friendly and you can go in pairs. A fun activity to do at the end is bumper cars, it’s a fun family activity and you can compete against each other. I’ve enjoyed going to Luna park since I was a kid and even when I was a teen. The Rotor is my favourite ride, you go inside and everyone stands in a circle with your back to the wall, it starts spinning fast and the floor drops and you're stuck on the wall spinning, it's really fun. The amusement park has many small games you  can play to win prizes. It has many new friends and some old favourites like the hair raiser, wild mouse and a big ferris wheel that goes over the ocean.

People walk around in funny costumes and do dances while you walk around.They have food stands around too and its decently priced. Luna Park is usually busy but you don't have to wait in lines for that long. Luna Park is definitely a must go in sydney