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Travelling around Australia was the primary way I explored while Abroad! From coastal cities to mountains and hidden beaches and world famous land marks, Australia has something for everyone. Travelling within the Sydney region could be as simple as taking a couple hour train for under $20, which was great for long weekends. Other trips were a short 1-3 hour flight! Here are the places I visited in Australia!

Wollongong (train)
Melbourne (flight)
Hobart, Tasmania (flight)
Brisbane (flight)
Newcastle (train)
Uluru / Kata Tjuta (flight)

Sydney also has great opportunities for day trips to beaches and other local spots, like Manly Beach, the Northern Beaches, Royal National Park, and the Blue Mountains National Park. Feel free to reach out with any questions about my travels!

Back at it with more Aussie adventures! Take a look at each pic to see some of my favorite things about living in Australia and unique things I experienced!

1🦘 Pictures at the Opera House Bar are a popular spot to not only see the Sydney Opera House, but capture the Harbour Bridge across the water!

2🦘 Australia has a national holiday on January 26 to recognize the day an Australian flag was planted on the land, but it is controversial because Aboriginal peoples had been settled in Australia since time immemorial, so Australia Day is also known as Invasion Day. The Opera House has a special projection display of Aboriginal art and I got to go see it before sunrise!

3🦘 Bondi Beach Baths - this world famous beach is in itself amazing, but many people don’t know about the one of a kind nature of the man-made ocean pools that were created during the Great Depression along the coast of Australia. They are a unique, beautiful swimming spot and addition to the landscape!

4🦘 Food in Sydney is amazing, especially Asian cuisine. My friends and I fell in love with the dumplings at a small restaurant in Chinatown and went there routinely!

5🦘 0.5 with my travel bestie in Glenorchy, New Zealand (not part of Australia but just as beautiful!)

6🦘 Aussies love a good gelato or frozen yogurt, and YO-CHI was the place to go! They had fresh fruit and all natural yogurts with dietary alternatives, and I was definitely obsessed!

7🦘 Taking short trips around Australia is one of the best ways to experience a huge country! This was my trip with friends to Uluru in the Northern Territory of Australia.

8🦘 Markets occur in almost every suburb and region of Sydney on a weekly basis throughout the summer and fall. I enjoyed experiencing so many different places, and the local vendors, artists, food, flowers and more that came with it!

9🦘 AFL (Australian Football League) on Anzac Day, another Australian Holiday

10🦘 The pumpkin red curry at Thai Pothong in Newtown, Sydney. One of the best restaurants we went to!

11🦘 Embarking on adventures with friends! Whenever we got together, we’d find a day trip to take, go explore a new place, new restaurant, and find a new way t

Hi everyone! My name is Isabel and I am a rising senior at UNE studying environmental science with a minor in public health. Last semester I studied abroad in Sydney, Australia at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and had a truly amazing time! This week I’ll be sharing some of the highlights from my experience, including the unique culture and environment of Sydney, what going to school in Australia was like, and my travels in and outside of the country! Can’t wait to share more soon!

oh, you thought you’d get away with not hearing about volcanoes, lava, and geothermal activity? HA! buckle up! 🌋 past MAR 436 trips have been able to witness lava flowing from active volcanoes, and we were able to drive past many lava fields - some only a couple years old! From pseudo-craters to legit ones, there’s a lot of cool places to see created by energy bubbling up from the mantle! And don’t get me started on basalt columns - want to know how they happen? There’s an explanation called ✨columnar jointing✨: as slow lava/magma/ash-flows cool, contraction of the material occurs and pockets form pulling in on themselves and fracturing from their kin of surrounding pockets in these kind-of-lava-fractals. Link here if you’d like to know more :) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/volcanoes/columnar-jointing.htm

Another wonder we were able to see many of were waterfalls! Pictured here are Brúarfoss, Öxarárfoss, Seljalandsfoss, Skogafoss, Knervufoss, Godafoss, Dettifoss, and Glymur (can you guess what the Icelandic word for waterfall is? 😂 Some fun facts: Brúarfoss gets its beautiful bright blue color from glacial sediments carried in the melt, Öxarárfoss is located at Thingvellir and falls into a gap formed by the rift between the North American and Eurasian Plates, and Godafoss is where in about year 1000, Þorgeir Þorkelsson threw Norse pagan idols over the falls to mark the Icelandic conversion to Christianity after attending the Althingi gathering in Thingvellir.

hi there, Claire here :) This week we’ll be sharing some adventures from our Natural History of Iceland travel course! One of the many natural wonders we saw were glaciers. The first of which was Sólheimajökull (slides 1-6) - an incredible example of how glaciers carry sediments that accrue on their surface and as they flow. The second ice behemoth we got to visit was Langjökull (“long glacier” - Iceland’s second largest) where we took the truck in slide 7 and drove up onto the glacier before exploring within. There we saw fissures and moulins (aka “glacier mills” - drainage for melted surface ice) from below where the tunnels carved for tours interrupted their progression through the ice. 🧊 Stay tuned for more Iceland! 🇮🇸

Hello, my name is Connor and I recently got to travel to Iceland for one of UNE travel courses. I took the Arctic Adventure Tourism class along with 11 other students. These are some of the pictures I got while exploring the golden circle! Over the next couple days I will be sharing some of the experiences and places we got to visit!

thats a wrap on my une global takeover!! thank you all for following along on this incredible adventure💙
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hope everyone has an amazing summer🌞

our adventure this morning was exploring a bat cave!! did you know bats are the largest order of mammals and make up around 20% of all mammalian species?? although it was quite a squeeze to get into the cave, it was so cool to see these bats up close and in their natural environment🦇

Today we visited a cacao plantation run by a Nove indigenous village.We got to try raw cacao beans and participated in the chocolate making process! 🍫🌱