Hello everyone,
Wishing you a very Happy Easter that is filled with plenty of love and happiness.
M and Chhori
Posted in Holidays
Tagged australian, australian nepali, chhori, easter, easter 2015, Happy Easter, Nepali
Dear friends, readers, commenters, likers, followers and others,
Thank you everyone for an awesome 2014. Thanks for your interactions on this blog. Your readership makes this blog worth keeping up and I can’t express my gratitude warmly enough for engaging with me and my posts and helping me reflect continually.
I think the end of the year is always so busy for everyone that it is hard to keep up with the blog. Nevertheless, Happy New Year everyone, hope you had a great one.
May your New Year be
A new year that brings luck and prosperity
A New Year that brings happiness and joy
Happy New Year 2015
I had two weeks off from work to spend with my in laws and boy it was the one of the busiest times of my life. Most of the days we were out and about in touristic places making sure we ticked off the boxes and places to take them. I am glad to report that, we did manage to go to many places and had a great time along the ways.
My New Year definitely started with a big bang. This year we went to watch the famous Sydney’s New Year Eve fireworks.
People were arriving early in different parts around Sydney Harbour to see the fireworks to try and get the best vantage points. We also went to city after midday and were lucky enough to get a really good spot near Luna Park.
There were long line ups at most of the places starting lining up 14 hours before the fireworks were to begin. Not a boring wait though as there were plane Aerobatics, boats of all sizes and shapes in the harbour, plenty of buskers around.
We were well prepared with mats, pillows and lots of food and drink. The weather was perfect and we had a great time watching the 9pm, 10:40pm and midnight fireworks while making friends with people who were waiting near us as well.
Here is the video I captured of the midnight fireworks.
Also sharing 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 380,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 16 days for that many people to see it.
The busiest day of the year was February 15th with 2,613 views. The most popular post that day was Happy Anniversary my darling husband.
In 2014, there were 223 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 778 posts.
I just would like to thank each of you for your great support and appreciation which has constantly served as motivation for me and I hope that you will continue supporting me the same way in future also.
Bring it on 2015!!!
Take care,
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
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Tagged 2014 eve, eve, fireworks, happy new year, NYE, Sydney, sydney fireworks, welcoming new year
Time is really flying this year and it is almost the end of the year.
I have been quite busy the last few weeks as my in laws are here and we are making use of every free time to travel and show them around. I will be blogging about it soon.
Today is Christmas and it is the time of the year again to spend time with friends and family. As we reflect on this wonderful holiday, let’s share the goodness of our heart with others, express with words and gifts what someone means to us.
I wish you a blessed holiday season. May this Christmas bring you comfort, joy, peace and happiness to last throughout the coming year.
Santa stopped at my place today , hope he did at yours too 🙂 🙂 🙂
Take care,
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
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I can’t believe I haven’t blog much during the month of October and the month is already over. As you know, I have mentioned AS’s uncle and his family were visiting Australia from Nepal. Due to that reason, we were doing many touristy things and were busy. Here is how my weeks have been for the last few weeks.
Sculpture by the sea
Like every year, we went to Sculpture by the Sea but this time we went with visitors. I love Sculpture by the Sea – intriguing, whimsical, inspiring and challenging exhibits set against the stunning backdrop of Sydney Harbour, along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk.
The exhibition has certainly come a long way since it was established in 1997 by a group of volunteers with no funding. This year there were 109 exhibits from 16 countries.
Everyone loved the walk and the day was just perfect to spend 3 hours walking by the coast in the beautiful breeze.
We took heaps of photos during the visit. Also, check out the stunning shots on the Sculpture by the Sea website and on their social media pages Facebook Twitter and Instagram.
The Sydney Tower Eye
I think any visitor on Sydney’s tour won’t be done until they visit the Sydney Tower so we made sure our guests were able to enjoy the tower too.
Sydney Tower is Sydney’s tallest structure, it is also the second tallest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere (after Auckland’s Sky Tower, though Sydney Tower Eye’s main observation deck is almost 50 m (164 ft) higher than that of Auckland’s Sky Tower).The Sydney Tower Eye has been an integral part of the Sydney skyline. It features attractions such as Skywalk, Sydney Tower Eye Observation Deck, 4D Cinema and more.
We enjoyed the movie and it is a good addition to the tower experience. It is more aimed at tourists than locals but it is a nice one. There is no seating in the cinema so everyone has to stand on a podium.. The movie has spectacular footage that transports you across Sydney Harbour and takes you through the city’s iconic landmarks and important events.
The observation deck has tall windows without anything obscuring their view. From the window, we could see the Blue Mountains, the spectacular shoreline of the Harbour, bustling Sydney Airport, Botany Bay and more.
Manly beach
Manly Beach is a popular tourist destination located on the North Shore of Sydney it has an extensive coastline with several beaches doted along its length and panoramic views back to toward the city from North Head National Park.
AS’s uncle and is family loved the place and we were very lucky with the weather.
Birthday dinner
Thank you everyone for the warm birthday wishes. I had a fun time with my family this time and here are some of the photos from the day.
We went to our local Indian restaurant and they served yummy food as usual. Everyone enjoyed the meal and I had fun 🙂 and was spoiled with gifts and cakes.
Melbourne cup
The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s major thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as “the race that stops a nation”, it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. Please read my previous post for more details about the day.
Like every year, me and AS got dresses up for the big day. This year I went with the fascinator in orange with matching accessories and a black dress. AS was looking dashing in his black assembly with a silver tie 🙂 . We had sweeps at work and for the first time, I won some money in Melbourne cup. My horse came second giving me something to celebrate.
Take care,
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
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Posted in Australia
Tagged Birthday dinner, Manly beach, Melbourne cup, sculpture by the sea, The Sydney Tower Eye
While we were in New Zealand, we went to Milford Sound for a day trip.
Milford Sound is a fiord in the south west of New Zealand’s South Island, within Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world’s top travel destination and called the eighth Wonder of the World.
One of the world’s most beautiful fjords, Milford Sound also holds the dubious honour of being the wettest place in New Zealand. On average, there are 186 days each year when rain falls, dumping almost seven metres of the stuff on anyone unlucky enough to time their visit badly. Although there is less rain during the winter months, there are still sixteen days a month of wet weather in any season. I’d read that the high rainfall totals led to spectacular waterfalls, and, when windy, dramatic updrafts of water.
Milford Sound is more than 3 hours away from Queenstown so we decided to book a tour rather than drive there on our own. It was an exciting journey for us with beautiful scenery ending with an amazing cruise.
The coach that we were on was perfectly suited for sightseeing in a place as dramatic as the Milford Road, with clear glass windows and roof. The bus stopped every once in a while so we could all take every picture possible on the way.
Our first stop was Te Anau, which is a lovely little village sitting on the edge of Lake Te Anau. At Te Anau we met up with the famous Milford Road, one of the great drives in the world. It’s quite a long lake, whose coast we followed for a while.
The next stop was Mirror Lakes, to take some great photos of the reflections of the mountains in the lake and we were very lucky that the water was so calm.
Our cameras were on constant work during the whole trip as all the places we saw were so beautiful that we wanted to capture every one of them.
Then, we stopped at the Chasm walk next which took us into the woods to a couple of bridges where we saw waterfalls that had done amazing things to the rocks around them—gouging holes and depositing tree trunks in holes in the rocks 20 ft. above the current flow.
We had a few other stops before we reached Milford Sound.
The road is quite challenging and I was glad we decided to get the tour rather than drive ourselves. We headed through the Homer Tunnel, a 1.2 km long tunnel linking Milford Sound to Te Anau and Queenstown, by piercing the Darran Mountain range at the Homer Saddle. You could tell it was dug by hand because there were pick marks on the side walls and on the roadway. It was pitch black inside the tunnel and a very different experience. Once we were out on other side, it was downhill with a windy zig zag road that takes you down to Milford Sound.
Finally, we reached Milford Sound and it was just beautiful and breathtaking. We had a boat waiting or us for the cruise. Arriving at Milford Sound’s boat dock, the sky was a deep blue and we took the opportunity to capture some amazing shots.
As soon as we boarded, we ate lunch as both of were starving. The sandwich and coffee tasted better with the spectacular view and a hungry tummy 🙂
The cruise started and the pilot informed us about the place and its history. We saw some seals sunning themselves on a rocky outcrop and some beautiful waterfalls along the way.
A couple of times the pilot ran the boat up very close to a waterfall, so those on the bow got sprayed and AS managed to get some really nice photos.
After almost 2 hours, our tour wound down and, we got on the bus and headed back to Queenstown happy with how our day went. It was an amazing day with some great memories for life.
Take care everyone,
M from nepaliaustralian
XOXO
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