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Hello!
As you might have already guessed or known, Australia is a very
interesting place. Firstly, it's a vast area of diverse forms of
landscapes: deserts, lakes, rivers, mountains, tropical forests, beaches
and very famous architecture buildings like Sydney Opera or Sydney
Harbour Bridge. Today I want to present some of places that will take
your breath away. The order in this rank is pretty random, I can't decide which place is more beautiful!
Here's a map with locations of all the places we're going to visit today;)
Mini-dictionary:(to have audio, click on the flag - British or American, or sound icon next to the chosen word)Outback - busz w Australii
claim - twierdzić
treasure - skarb
primary - pierwotny
seclusion - odosobnienie
virtue - zaleta, cecha, cnota
to glare - jarzyć się, świecić
oppression - uciskanie
sacred - święty
simultaneously - jednocześnie
masterpiece - dzieło sztuki
event - wydarzenie, impreza
sculpturer - rzeźbiarz
harbour - przystań, port, zatoka
10. Kakadu National Park
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It's a great place, filled with wildlife and beautiful views. It's a typical Australian Outback landscape, located in Northern Territory, of a great size 19,804 km2, which is a half of Switzerland and it makes Kakadu National Park the biggest Australian national park!
Many people claim than Kakadu National Park is the biggest Australian treasure and is the essence of Australian nature. Breathtaking views, pure nature, closeness to primary cultures and seclusion.
Kakadu National Park is mostly known for its geographical, biological and archeological virtues like: diversified flora and fauna, beautiful sceneries, colours and wildlife, various rock and landscapes formations: lowlands, billabongs, redrocks, but also cave and rock paintings, and commonly found aboriginal culture due to Aborigines who live within the park.
The name of the park does not come from the name of a bird, but misheard aboriginal word "Gagadju".
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WATCH A VIDEO
It's a great place, filled with wildlife and beautiful views. It's a typical Australian Outback landscape, located in Northern Territory, of a great size 19,804 km2, which is a half of Switzerland and it makes Kakadu National Park the biggest Australian national park!
Many people claim than Kakadu National Park is the biggest Australian treasure and is the essence of Australian nature. Breathtaking views, pure nature, closeness to primary cultures and seclusion.
Kakadu National Park is mostly known for its geographical, biological and archeological virtues like: diversified flora and fauna, beautiful sceneries, colours and wildlife, various rock and landscapes formations: lowlands, billabongs, redrocks, but also cave and rock paintings, and commonly found aboriginal culture due to Aborigines who live within the park.
The name of the park does not come from the name of a bird, but misheard aboriginal word "Gagadju".
MORE INFO HERE
Uluru
has become one of Australian symbols. Located in Northern Territory,
Uluru-Kata-Tjuta National Park, is a huge rock formation -
inselberg/monolith - called also Ayers Rock, and is also one of the most
often visited tourist attraction and Australian icon. It prevails over a
huge bushless plain and at the sunset the rock glares redly, creating
pinkish-red sky and evoking simple delight.
Its english name - Ayers
Rock - comes from one of the British Prime Minister's name - Sir Henry
Ayers, but a few years ago its original aboriginal name became an
official one. 
Noone knows what "Uluru" means, however despite this fact, for Aborigines it is a place of a very special meaning. On one hand it is the symbol of fights, oppression but ultimately freedom and regaining land. On the other hand it's a source of spiritual energy, one of few places in the world with so much life and such a dense net of living organisms, people and other living creatures.
Another interesting fact is that Uluru has "faces" and some of them are more sacred, some of them less, and due to this fact, some parts of Uluru mustn't be photographed! You can get a fine if you do that.
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8. Sydney Opera House
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Sydney Harbour is one of Australian attributes. Located in New South Wales, in Port Jackson Bay, it was designed by Danish architect Jorn Ober Utzon. Australian government started a contest in which architects from all over the world sent their projects of the building and his project won. It is said that he found the inspiration in a pile of orange pieces and when he decided to draw its shape, he simulatneously created the shape of the Opera House. It was opened in 1973 and was made UNESCO Heritage Site in 2007. Often referred to as a modern architecture masterpiece.
Annually, it hosts about 1500 events, i.e. ballet, theatre, music or sporting events, and from this place you can get an amazing view on the most striking one - fireworks show! WATCH HERE
Currently there's an exhibition About Dennis Wolański, a polish ghetto survivor who escaped to Australia and achieved a great success there as a sculpturer. If you want to know what other things you might see or do in Sydney Opera House, click HERE.
Due to its shape and overall look, it resembles ships resting in the harbour or a big swan. However, in Australia swans are only black!
That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed the first part of our trip around Australia :)
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