Darwin & Barramundi Fiesta

The Parliament

Darwin, a city where winter never visits. It really feels like the weather back in Malaysia. Less humid though. And there are many Asians living here cause it's nearest to South East Asia. It's also the first city to be bombed by the Japanese in 1942 WWII.

Parking around the city is fairly easy, because the city is so small it is all very accessible if park at the Esplanade which allows for whole day parking for $6. The street parking is FOC from 5pm-8am.

We visited the state library, located just within the Parliament building. We are on the right time of the week, cause there is a free guided tour around the Parliament every Wed at 10.30am. It was an interesting tour in fact, we learned more about the parlimentary system which we know little of. The whole system generally followed their mother London's Westminster.

Northern Territory was under South Australia in the beginning which was then separated from SA. So Northern Territory is not a state like the others, not under control of the Commonwealth, which is why there is no Union Jack on their flag.

Inside the chamber

Darwin Waterfront

Skycity Casino located just 3kms from the CBD. Like every other city, we paid a visit to the casino to grab any membership benefits at all =P and yes they do offer new members $10 free credits on the pokies/slot machines. It's our lucky day, we managed to win $40 from the free credits! Yay, now we can spend on buying the local famous barramundi fish for dinner!

Our dinner of Barramundi fish, bought fresh from Coles =) Finally we get to savour this long wait fish. Really delicious and the texture is... erm... good... as in slightly firm =)

The Bicentennial Park

Darwin at night

We stayed at Aurora Shady Glen Caravan Park, located at Winnilie. Only 10minutes to city. Cost for powered site is $39. There is unpowered site (since it's not cold anyway), but would most probably be occupied by the backpackers. There are really MANY backpackers at Darwin. Looking for job probably. At night it is quite noisy, since it's so close to the airport. 

From Darwin, it is relatively easy to travel to the Kakadu national parks then to Kathrine for the Nitmiluk National Park and back to Darwin or the other way round. It will be about 550kms drive to go to all these destinations.