Sunday Summary #15

Leaving Australia

Palya (greetings in Pitjantjatjara, language of the aboriginal Anangu) ,

Welcome to An Urban Journey’s fifteenth Sunday Summary. This edition of the Sunday Summary was written in our Airbnb from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. 

Since the last Summary.

It has been almost an entire month since our last Sunday Summary. Half of our time was spent working in Melbourne and the second we toured through Australia! Here are a few highlights of our time in Melbourne:

• Learning how to sail and attending two Twilight Sails

• Walking around Queen Victoria Market 

• Attending a comedy show

• Running a free 5k in Prince Park through ParkRun

• Dinner with two urbanists and walking around their neighborhood

During that dinner, we discussed (among many other items) our tentative plan for touring Australia once we left Melbourne. They recommended that we book a few nights in the territory of Tasmania, Australia. Here are a few highlights from our time in Tassie:

• Hiking Cradle Mountain where we did our first summit to see the beautiful Cradle Mountain National Park

• Hiking Mount Amos where we did our second summit hike to view Wineglass Bay

• Seeing a spectacular amount of wildlife such as Tassie Devils, Echidnas, Kangaroos, Wallabies, Wombats, Possums, Snakes, among others… 

After Tassie, we flew back to Melbourne where we drove on the iconic Great Ocean Road. The views were completely breathtaking and we thoroughly enjoyed taking our time driving from Melbourne to Adelaide. We just finished our time in Australia with a 6 day tour into the Outback. There’s too much to write here, but some of the highlights were:

• Sleeping underground in the Opal Capital of the World at Coober Pedy. 

• Experiencing the Outback. The fly-magedden was awful, but the amazing sunrises, sunsets and sleeping under the Milky-Way by-far made up for it.

• Learning about Aboriginal history and current lifestyles was so intriguing, we left inspired to continue learning more about them.

• Learning about the unique geology at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

In the past month we released several vlogs, which you can access here if you missed it:

• An Argentinean Winery | Finca Decero

• Crossing the Andes Mountains by Bus | Argentina to Chile

• Family Time in Santiago | Santiago, Chile

• Running Through Airports | Santiago to Cusco

• Preparing for the Classic Inca Trail | Cusco, Peru

• Hiking the Classic Incan Trail | Day 1

• Hiking the Classic Incan Trail | Day 2

• Hiking the Classic Incan Trail | Day 3

• WE MADE IT to MACHU PICCHU! | Classic Incan Trail Day 4

• Four Travel Days | Cusco to the Galapagos

This Week.

This week we are traveling to our 10th country, India! We are very excited to go to Asia, here are some of the fun things we’re looking forward to:

• Exploring Indian Culture through the people, food, and places we’ll see

• Experiencing a capsule hotel during our layover in the Bangkok airport on our way to India

• Meeting friends living in Delhi

While we have made our initial plans for India, if you have any recommendations for India, Sri Lanka, or Thailand, please send them to [email protected]. Are you planning any fun trips abroad this year and want to meet up? Let us know and we’ll schedule you into our 2020 adventures! 

We’re incredibly grateful to be on this trip together. A day doesn’t go by when we think to ourselves how lucky we are to be doing this trip. Thank you for following our journey!

Cheers mate,Jenn + Elliot