One of Australia's most spectacular and well renowned road journey's is the famous - Great Ocean Road along the bottom south west of Victoria. This unique road was constructed by soldiers who had returned from the Great War. With shovels, picks and crowbars in hand they built this road and dedicated it to their fallen mates. The road officially starts in a small town of Torquay and runs along the coast until Port Fairy for the total distance of 285 km. We started our journey in Torquay on an early morning and ended the day in Port Campbell.
Isn't there something exhilarating in driving a camp van across an unknown country? Road trips are my favorites way of traveling. My most memorable ones are crossing the United States, East to West with my father; a road trip with my friend Kristal following the Highway 1 in California from LA to San Francisco; another road trip across deserts and Atlas of Morocco and another one in Nepal and just the recent one with my friends in the Southern Australia. And although I am not feeling an urge for traveling for another half a year at least, while enjoying my home in Switzerland an old dream of a road trip in Iceland is growing..
The start of a Great Ocean Road tour is the beautiful surfcoast region of Torquay , which is only 95km Melbourne.
Along the coast hugging road, there are many lovely towns, wharfs, lighthouses to visit and National Parks.
Twelve Apostles from the distance, against the sun. These are limestone stacks formed by erosion; the harsh and extreme weather conditions from the Southern Ocean gradually eroded the soft limestone to form caves in the cliffs, which then became arches, which in turn collapsed; leaving rock stacks up to 45 metres high.
We sat at the wooden table in Port Cambell, opened a bottle of red wine and finished the day in a pink light of the sunset.
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