Australia

Voices in your head: Australian audio tours

Voices in your head: Australian audio tours

Every now and again Hipster Travel Guide gets tips from website owners telling us about their travel stuff. We’re listening: Literally. Travis Draper runs a very cool website that provides audio tours in Australia. Instead of spending big bucks on a tour guide, you can down load these walking tours for your iPod or...

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Australia demands inbound passengers declare all porn

Australia demands inbound passengers declare all porn

Cigarettes? Whiskey? Porn? Those are the questions people arriving in Australia are hearing from custom officials now that the government has changed its arrival rules. This totally changes our interpretation of The Land Down Under. According to media reports, Australia has changed its passenger arrival card – you know that piece of cardboard you...

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Australia opens tours to Klingons

Australia opens tours to Klingons

Tourism is tough all over and many places are looking for ways to draw in bigger crowds. Starting August 22 Jenolan Caves National Park in Australia will show how far its willing to go: It will add Klingon to the other eight languages on the audio tour of “Nettles Cave“. “We are poised to...

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Vote and win free stuff

Vote and win free stuff

WorldNomads.com has been busy. Seven teams of travelers have been under going their own Amazing Race across the Outback, traveling a collective 30,000 km around Australia. Through their adventures, which has included skydiving, swimming with dolphins, beer drinking and cave exploring, the teams have been filming their antics and posting them on Youtube.  (All...

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Happy New Year From Down Under!

Happy New Year From Down Under!

Hours ahead of the U.S., Sydney, Australia brought in the New Year with a bang over their majestic Harbour with two sets of fireworks, one at 9 p.m. and another at midnight.

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Best New Year’s Eve Party on Earth – Sydney Harbour

Best New Year’s Eve Party on Earth – Sydney Harbour

Hipster is on site covering one of the globe's hottest New Year's Eve party; Sydney Harbour.

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Best (almost most deadly) job in the world

Best (almost most deadly) job in the world

Win a great job for six months, and after 5 months, 28 days, die on the beach -- that was one way this Australia trip could have gone. but all is well down under after some quick acting staff saved one blogger's life.

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Why Do Aussies Speak Baby Talk?

Why Do Aussies Speak Baby Talk?

This is my third trip to Sydney and Melbourne this year and the more time I spend here, the more differences I see in the language; Aussies talk baby talk. The idea here is that they add an ‘ie’ to the end of many things and adopted the language as common. Most people I...

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Australia for the Holidays

Australia for the Holidays

Hipster Travel Guide has headed Down Under for the holidays. We will be bringing you some much needed summer weather and happenings from the Southern Hemisphere. Stay posted for updates from Sydney and Melbourne as we step out for some sun, snorkel and yes, even a little shrimp on the barbie, mate.

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