FunFunGooo...!: Melbourne@Australia

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This is where we had been in Victoria. We rent a car and explored by ourselves.

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Date: 18 May 2010, Tuesday
Hotel: IBIS Hotel, Melbourne.

Day 1 in Victoria.

We took midnight flight by TigerAirway from Perth to Melbourne. We arrived ~7am. This is their domestic airport. Tell you... What surprised me was their domestic airport very 'lau ya'. We walked to the baggage claim... along the way is build by the wire fence... toilet is like our 'mobile toilet'... It's look like we are the chickens inside the coop... gosh~
Airportrentacar- this is the place that we rent our car. Originally, Alfonso was booking Hyundai i30... but don't know why the boss gave us Nissan Latio, AU$29 per day.

www.airportrentacar.com.au

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We drove from the airport and followed the GPS drove to the Melbourne City. At first, we were very confuse their parking and traffic system... their parking is base on the time... 15mins, 30mins, 1hour... different place has different duration for you... let's say, if you park at the area which is only allow you to park for 15min... after 15mins, you should move your car away... There has the sign board to showing you how long you can park your car at this area. Same in M'sia, they using the parking meter system.

After took some times, we only managed to understand their parking system and parked our car somewhere near by Federation Square. This is heart of the Melbourne City.

We had no idea where to go since not the time to check in yet... well, we took a walk and look for our breakfast... really... we don't know what we should take... since food here is expensive... eventually, we just simply walked in to one of the Japanese restaurant to have a bowl of hot soup... The food here just so so.. What much we had spent on it... hmm... I think around AU$20+

After breakfast, we walked around the Federation Square.
Top picture: This is the Federation Square which is the art center in Melbourne. A lot peoples are 'lepak' there.
Lower left picture: Can see that? Their parking rate damn expensive!
Lower right picture: This is the one of the old building in front of the Federation Square.

Top: Train station on left side of Federation Square.
Bottom: These are the park behind the Federation Square. Actually they are attached together.
What I can seen is... they have a lot park... is a big park.

Below are the views around the Federation Square.

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This is the Queen Victoria market, famous market in Melbourne. This time we did not explore more in this market because not so familiar the structure. Well, we did come again in our last day. This market is not as big as the market in Bangkok.

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Lastly, we can check in and take a rest. This is the IBIS Hotel in Melbourne City. It is a nice hotel with reasonable price. The time that we made a booking was the promotion. So it consider quite cheap if compare to other hotel in the City. AU$208.50 for 4D3N... where AU$69.50 per night. We took a nap until 5PM+... really tired.

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~6PM+... sky already getting dark. We walked around the Park which near the Federation Square. Again, it is a very big park. A lot peoples jogging in group and do some exercise here. Can see some of the peoples bringing their dog to jogging together... very healthy.