Jik and I had our photo taken at the Cathedral Magnetic Termite Mounds — or, in simpler terms, a gigantic termite nest.…
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Before visitors enter Mossman Gorge, the Kuku Yalanji people perform the sacred Aboriginal smoking ceremony as a welcome to the country.…
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When I was in Darwin, I was keen to try the unique Darwin food, except Darwin laksa, which I still ate on the last day as I had no choice.…
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Mindil Beach Sunset Market is an open-air market held on Thursday and Sunday evenings at Mindil Beach, near the Mindil Beach Casino Resort.…
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Have you heard the saying: "You don't go to Darwin without seeing jumping crocodiles (or eating crocodiles, for that matter)."…
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Overall, it has been a very full (pun intended) day in Darwin, formerly known as Palmerston. Does it warrant us calling it Palmy?…
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The first thing I noticed was the disproportionate number of people wearing Akubra (cowboy) hats at the airport and around Darwin city today.…
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If I lived in Darwin and craved Indonesian food, I’d probably be better off flying to Bali for an authentic Indo meal.…
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Some time ago, I saw an email from Melbourne’s most iconic local occult store, Spellbox, offering a class on Favomancy. I had never heard of Favomancy before. The email’s brief paragraph describes Favomancy as the art of divination that originated in Italy using beans. I did a little more research and learned that it…
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I was at the toddy shop with Fafa, called “Toddy Shop,” a Kerala cuisine eatery located in the hipster neighbourhood of Collingwood and opened by an equally hipster-looking chef. The Toddy Shop is much smaller than the open-air OG toddy shop I visited in Kerala, but Fafa said this was the usual size of…
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