Here we go; the long-awaited part of our trip was truly undertaking a grand drive in the so unfamiliar and so acclaimed Down Under land.

As the rest of our whole journey around this world, little planning was made and all we knew was the roughly 6’000 km we would have drove along Australia East Coast, easy we thought. Nothing prepared us to what we would stumble upon, such diverse and spectacular sceneries, the most epic roadtrip we ever accomplished.

The idea was to buy one of this hippie cool Volkswagen campervan which would become our mobile home for the next 3 months. Somehow, we found ourselves with a panel van with a mattress throw in the back, who knows how many times before it already attempted the Big Loop.

From then, it all began. We’ll never forget the emotions that hit us the moment we embarked on this adventure, so excite but so daunting.

The destination: no itinerary was really set except we would have start in Sydney, reach Cairns and back. Inconveniences struck straight away and instead we set off from Melbourne and headed back to where we began. Not a big deal, we got our own wheels and we could just feel the freedom of roaming around at our own time, detouring at any points or stopping just whenever we felt like.

The only (wrong) advice we have been told at start, was there’s nothing interesting in between Sydney and Byron Bay, just a couple of hours south of Brisbane, but we were not in a rush. So we went off driving through rugged Gippsland and coastal Victoria, seaside towns all along New South Wales coast, tourists’ havens on the Queensland’s Gold Coast, laid back Sunshine and Fraser Coast, up to the Tropical North where rainforest enchants at Cape Tribulation and the Great Barrier Reef is a truly living wonder.

We ended up covering 14’282 km over 3months, but it was a van-tastic time!