last few bits of our trip

we officially finished our electives on 20/5 friday... so e last week was mainly travelling for liling n me! ken n soh went home first on 23/5.

liling n i took a 3 n half day tour on a coach from melbourne to sydney. along e way, we get to go sightseeing at snowy mountains, canberra and blue mountains. the tour started early on monday and we'll reach sydney on thurs afternoon!

Snowy mountains
nope... it was only autumn, so it wasn't snowing yet! it's actually a huge ski resort with lots of skiing sites around the snowy mountains town-like place. we arrived at snowy mountains on monday nite, so din get to see much on the first day. we were mainly trying to cover the distance on our coach, so lotsa driving n sleeping... stopped over at a Ned Kelly museum which was nothing much...

oh! must talk abt the accommodation at snowy mountains!! it was a very cheap motel at Khancoban (a small town) which was furnished more like a hotel actually! we paid only 24 bucks each... and look wat we got!!

nice beds wif bed linen... and the most impressive thing was the bed heater pad under the linen! i was fascinated with it man!!! discovered it when i was turning in bed n hit my arm on a plastic-like thingy... we removed part of the linen n saw e heating pad!! WOW! hahaha... sorry la... so sua ku but it was my first time seeing a bed heater...

and there was an attached bathroom, tv, free coffee n tea and refrigerator in the twin bedroom! it's gotto be the best accommodation we've had throughout these 7 weeks! haha! almost din feel like leaving e place e next morning...

the next morning, the weather was pretty bad and everywhere was misty, so there was not much point in trekking up one of the mountains, so we took a river trail along Thredbo river. along this river, we enjoyed scenic views of the snowy mountains and got some nice morning workout! although it wasn't snowing yet, the mountains were still beautiful coz there's this layer of fluffy clouds/mist at the mountain caps! haha!

Canberra
this is the capital of australia but it's a ghost town... haha! very very quiet town, so unlike melbourne and definitely far from sydney! in canberra, we saw the old n new parliament house, war memorial, all the embassies of different countries n the national museum of australia.

the highlight of e 2nd day would have to be the bbq at night!



this is our tourguide cooking our meat for us!

we bought e groceries n meat from a supermarket, went back to our accommodation to bbq! it was so enjoyable, coz we sat around, eat n talk crap! plus we had wine n beer to go with our food! some of e guys got pretty drunk i think... n started sprouting nonsense n singing very loudly!