For those who are Penangites, many do not realize that Georgetown is the sister city to Adelaide, city from Down South! Apart from Georgetown, Adelaide is also the sister city to Christchurch, New Zealand, Himeji, Japan, Austin, Texas and also Ferrol, Spain!
Adelaide is the fifth most populous city in Australia, with the moniker ‘The City of Churches”. For those who have been there and live there, you will realize that this city was shaped by religious freedom.
One of the cities that situated all the way to the south of Australia, Adelaide is surrounded with parkland with large public square and also wide boulevards!
I have been to a few countries and I have since love to go back to New Zealand and even Australia. I realize that these countries really promote tourism as one of their main income with good facilities to support this industry. I had been to New Zealand and Australia way back in 1996, and then, again back to Australia, particularly Adelaide for a holiday in 2004.
Now with AirAsiaX, we can travel to more countries, and this open up more choices for us to choose where to go for holiday. Previously, we can only think of Bali, Thailand, Philippines and few countries surrounding South East Asia, now we can go further and Australia as one of the destination, the choices is ours to be spoilt with!
I was looking into some old files, and thinking which country do I love to go back for a visit when I stumble upon my pictures taken when I am in Adelaide. Wow! How I love this place.
First of all, AirAsiaX don’t fly to Adelaide but only to Bribane. However, if you are the adventurer type, get to Brisbane and you can take the countryside bus which takes you thorough the seaside road all the way to Adelaide, which takes about 3 days.
Ah... Adelaide!
I love the creativity that being express in this city. You can see sculptures in lots of places and how things are built to be stand out from the rest and not to fit in!
Oh…I love the transport systems here where we can take the Adelaide Metro round the city or simply the O-barn bus which I find rather unique. You have a bus which travel on normal roads and at the same time, as it goes out of the city, it travels on track. You can also take the tramp to the Glenelg beach!
If not, you can just simply walk around the town or the many parks to relax and enjoy the scenery or simply being enchanted with their chipping of the birds or seeing swan and goose swimming in the lake and river!
If you tired of walking and shopping in this city, you can just simply hope on to the city bus, and get down at the botanical garden and enjoy the rose garden there or simply laze at the field and enjoy the breeze.
I love outdoors and this city provides you with lots of that to do. The Clealand Wildlife Park here is a great place to visit and I simply love the concept where most of the animals are free, something like a safari.
Or if you love the sea, you also can visit the port and go for the dolphin sighting trip. It’s great and you can see dolphin and lots of seagull too.
If you are not the outdoor person, you can also visit the museum which is also in the town itself, and see the colorful and interesting exhibition. There is so much to see in the museum and I spend about 5 hours in there.
For those who love to shops, Rundell Mall offers you a great variety of shops and its full of energy. This street is a great place to visit.
However, this town is dead at night. Nothing much to do unless you take a walk at the red light district. I went during the Christmas season and during this time, the town in pretty much deserted making feels like a ghost town!
Anyway, here are some of the pics taken there.
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