It's crazy, it's fun. It's the Kiwi adventure experience called zorbing where "zorbonauts" spin downhill in a large rolling ball.
No, you won't find kangaroos hopping around Sydney streets. But certainly there are places in the city, like Sydney Wildlife World, where there's more than kangaroos.
The Australian film, Strange Bedfellows, starring Paul Hogan, Michael Caton and Pete Postlethwaite, was filmed in the Victorian town of Yackandandah close to the Victorian ski fields.
One of Australia's biggest country music festivals with a touch of the blues — the National Country Music Muster — opens in Gympie, Queensland, in the Amamoor Creek State Forest Park, on August 26. The festival, held each August in Gympie, draws singers, musicians and crowds from around Australia and overseas. This year's festival runs until August 31.
Photo: Horse-drawn coach at a Gympie street parade, photography by Tourism Queensland©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.
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