Too Easy

My experience on the Australia Adventure was one of the best trips I have been on. I would particularly reccomend it to any first time travelers who are unsure about backpacking abroad and would like to enjoy a summer of fun travelling up the East coast of Australia.
I particularly enjoyed Fraser Island, the Whitsundays and the Blue Mountains tour where we had a great day guide called Sam. This trip gives a balanced experience by staying in metropolitan areas like Sydney and then in Australian beach towns like Byron Bay. The koala sanctuary on Magnetic Island was one of my favourite parts of the trip where we got to see and hold koalas, lizards and snakes. The Bush Stone Curlew birds were also very amusing to watch around the hostels. Our leader, Gaz, helped us to prepare for each new day on our itinerary giving us advise on money management, food preparation and the best places to visit on our free days. His unlikely expertise/obsession with bananas was also a great topic of conversation during our trip. On our last day as a group we rented a car in Cairns and took a drive to the Daintree River to go on a crocodile tour which was not on the itinerary and was a really fun way to spend time together. I found our leader Gaz to be really easy going and open to planning day trips or taking individual requests that weren't on our itinerary in order to give us the full Oz experience! So feel free to plan and research any other experiences not included on the itinerary. It's also a perfect way to meet new people and make long lasting friendships with people from all parts of the world. Our group was relatively small compared to previous groups but I found that made us closer by the end of the trip. There were a few group dinners that were included as well as some hilarious group games which I think largely attributed to our close bond. If your interested in travelling in a group and would like a trip where all the bookings for transport and accomodation are taken care of then I would definitely recommend the Australia Adventure.