So on Saturday morning I headed off to Adelaide zoo with some of the guys from CSU, the zoo was only about a 10 min walk away from the hospital! Everything was so close to us!
Entry for students was $22, which was sorta cutting into my budget, but Adelaide zoo is the only zoo in Australia that has pandas! We wondered round the zoo for a bit before we saw the pandas as there were designated viewing times and we had to wait.
The tortoise was very very big and looked very very old!
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| Giant Tortoise |
The crocodiles were smaller than others I've seen before, but still looked menacing!
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| Crocodiles |
This little wallaby was trying to blend in with it's surroundings, but it was still very cute!
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| Wallaby - Can you spot him? |
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| The pandas are so popular you need a ticket to view them at designated times! |
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| In the line to see the pandas |
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| Funi the panda |
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| Panda statue |
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| Panda family |
Funi was munching on some branches or leaves whilst sitting on a rock, looks so adorable! It's as if Funi's smiling at you :D
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| Funi |
This is such a blue steel pose :D the animals are Adelaide zoo are such posers sometimes!
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| Funi - Blue steel |
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| Red panda |
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| Giraffe |
This meerkat was such a poser! I have so many other photos of him with different poses!
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| Meerkat |
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| Meerkat - He's such a poser |
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| Turtle |
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| Lemur |
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| Baboon |
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| Flamingo |
So I headed off to Adelaide for a radiography conference as there was a student presentation day, and for $50 for the day it wasn't too hard hitting on the pocket! The accommodation was $15.20 per night at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and it was pretty decent with linen, a lounge room and kitchen available. The conference didn't start until Friday 14th, but I had Thursday off so I went early to explore.
I took a 9:30am flight by Jetstar from Melbourne Airport, the only thing was I woke up at 6:30am to take the train then a SkyBus to get there!
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| View from the plane of Western Victoria/Eastern South Australia |
When I was about to board the plane to Adelaide, I saw one of my friends' from CSU on the same plane! When we landed in Adelaide I had lunch with her and some of her friends from CSU. Then I headed out for a bit of op-shopping round the city, was told by a few people that it was good. However, I must have gone to the wrong places cause they were so expensive! Like $45 for a vintage dress of unknown brand.. ):
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| On the streets of Adelaide City |
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| At the end of Rundle Mall - Near Haigh's Chocolate Store |
In the evening I headed out with the CSU guys for dinner, we headed to The Stag on Rundle St, not too far from the hospital. The menu had 1.5kg black angus steaks for $85! I chose a steak burger with chips for $19, it was a pretty good burger actually, the tomato relish inside was a nice compliment to the juicy sandwich steak. The chips were really good as well! :D
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| Steak burger from The Stag |
Wandering around the city, there were lots of sculptures on Rundle Mall, this marble thing was one of them.
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| Sculpture on Rundle Mall |
This building is actually above the 24 hour Hungry Jacks on Rundle Mall, it changes colours and we even saw a man dancing on it! (didn't mange to get a photo though ):)
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| Powered by solar electricity - Rundle Mall |
It was actually raining in Melbourne when I left, and on the plane there was blue sky. Once we landed in Adelaide it started to rain ): it eventually cleared up to a nice day though. Some other snaps whilst I was wandering round such a pretty city!
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| Along North Terrace |
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| Myer Rundle Mall/ North Terrace |
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| Shrine? |
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| State Library of South Australia |
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| Pretty buildings |
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| One of the University of South Australia buildings, so pretty! |
All I could say whilst I was wondering round, was "Adelaide is so pretty! The buildings are so nice!". Must have seemed like the biggest tourist ever!
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| University of South Australia building |
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| Another University of South Australia building |
Supposedly, Adelaide is the City of Churches. There are plenty of churches in Adelaide city and a lot of them are very grand!
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| Church? |
