Your Travel Guide to Australia

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G'day

My name is Walter Leven and I like to invite you to Walter-in-Australia.com. This is an interesting website to discover a lot of secrets about Australia. Down under is for me one of the most wonderful countries on planet earth. Check out lots of outback travel information or find your way around Australian glittering cities. Walter-in-Australia.com will be developed to a full travel guide about Australia in the next few years.

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Videos about Down Under

An essential part of this homepage will be a great variety of travel videos about towns in Australia. As well as there will be films about tourists places and short documentaries on various topics. The videos will be all semi-professionally produced by me.
This internet source will be updated on a regular base, so it is worth to check it every now and then for new pages.

This internet page will contain this information:
- Facts and figures about Australia,
- Things to know about Australian states and territories
- Comprehensive advice for travelling around Australia
- Outback travel information
- Directions for sightseeing
- Detailed information on Australian towns and cities
- Short travel videos about tourists places
- Short video documentaries and travelogues.

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Kangaroos in the Flinders Ranges - South Australia

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About me and my trips

You might be surprised, but my nationality is German, I live in a town called Grevenbroich which is situated in western Germany, about 30 kilometres north of the famous city of Cologne. I have been travelling to Australia since 1993. In the meantime I can count thirteen visits to Down Under, the shortest trip was five weeks and the longest ten month. So you can imagine that you receive good insider information on this webpage. My trips to Australia were always very individually. The type of accommodation was mostly bed and breakfast with Australian families,

as well as camping. When you travel like that, there will be always great experiences. For example, I stayed with students in Brisbane, with a dock worker in Sydney, on a sheep station in Broken Hill, with a pensioner in Adelaide or with a wealthy businessman in Perth. It was fantastic to take part on different levels of the Australian society. All I can say: great people - awesome experiences. My favourite is definitely outback travel. The most outstanding trip was a 2800 kilometres mountain bike tour across the South Australian Outback in 2007.

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One day I had the idea to produce documentaries about my trips. The first step was a distance learning course in Journalism in 2001/ 2002. After that, I did a film course with German television professionals in Namibia. Everything was done in my spare time, financed by my job as a car detailer, which is still providing the main part of my income. So far I have produced two travel documentaries which were shown in town halls and culture centres in Germany. I don't do that anymore because it is too much effort and you don't earn enough money to cover the cost. I will concentrate on extending this website in the future to provide more travel information on Australia for the whole world.

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Kenworth Roadtrain at Glendambo Roadhouse - SA

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Free information about Down Under

Here on walter-in-australia.com you have the chance to watch short video clips in English language on different topics.

And the good thing, it is absolutely free.
- No registration,
- No passwords,
- No restrictions on availability to certain countries.

It is free to watch for everyone in the world, plus lots of written information about Australia. I try to keep everything up to date, but of course things changing all the time. So if I write something wrong please don’t hesitate and drop me a short message. I’m always keen to know your opinion about this webpage, if you feel like, drop me a note about that as well.

Enjoy this website
Walter

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Saltwater crocodile

Why Australia?

A friend of mine went to Australia in 1992. He was very impressed by the beauty of the red continent. I listened to interesting stories about the outstanding hospitality of the Australians. He told me also some great reports about outback travel. After a look to some great photographs I got really curious about Down Under.

A few weeks later in a book shop I picked an individual travel guide to Australia off the shelf. That gave me the last boost to buy my flight ticket to Down Under. I was really strained to get my first experience about outback travel. Would you believe it, I was 31 years old and had never been in an aircraft before.

The first flight with Qantas from Frankfurt to Sydney was in January 1993. At this time there were stopovers in Bangkok and Singapore. Seven weeks lasted my first trip. I was very impressed to see Sydney and in contrast my outback travel in Western Australia. Now I have been thirteen times to Australia. You may think I have seen nearly everything of the Red Continent, but that isn’t true. Australia is bigger than Europe and my style of travelling is the slow one. I hate it to cover thousands of kilometres in a few days. So I can still discover new things on my future trips to Australia.

My trips to Australia

Here a quick overview of my destinations in Australia .

New South Wales: Sydney, East Coast > Brisbane, Hinterland = Grafton, Dubbo, Barrier Highway to Broken Hill, Outback NSW. Hume highway from Sydney to Melbourne.

Queensland: Brisbane & Hinterland, Paciffic Highway from Brisbane to Sydney, Cairns, Atherton Tablelands, Kuranda, Daintree, Townsville, Magnetic Island.

Northern Territory: Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Litchfield National Park. Outback travel to Uluru, Kata Tjutas.

Western Australia: Perth & South West Corner, Outback travel to Kalgoorlie, Highway No.1 along the West Coast = Geraldton, Denham, Canarvon, Exmouth, Port Hedland, Broome, Derby, Halls Creek, Kununurra. Highway No.95 via Newman & Meekatharra, Nullarbor crossing

South Australia: Adelaide, Barossa & Clare Valley, Outback travel to the Flinders Ranges, Leigh Creek, Marree, Willliam Creek, Oodnadatta, Marla, Stuart Highway, Eyre Peninsula, Ceduna, Kangaroo Island, Mt Gambier.

Victoria: Great Ocean Road, Melbourne. Hume highway from Melbourne to Sydney.

Tasmania: North east Tasmania > Devonport, Launceston, George Town, Freycinet National Park, Swansea, Bicheno, St.Marys, St.Helens, Great Lake, Central Highland, Westburry, Deloraine, Mole Creek.