Surfers Paradise
Thomas Meunier Belgien Trikot , that glorious stretch of beach on Queensland's Gold Coast offers something for everyone with its beach sports, shopping, nightlife, theme parks, not to mention the surfing. But if you tire of the malls and vistas of tall apartment blocks, and packed beaches, you have a whole new array of holiday options just outside the city.
To get out into the clear high air, head for Mount Tamborine
Dries Mertens Belgien Trikot , a 40-minutes drive from Surfers Paradise. It's home to Queensland's first national park and now features a number of separate parks on the plateau and surrounding shelves.
A place of rainforest areas crossed by gentle streams and pretty waterfalls, Mount Tamborine is home to a charming bevy of beautiful picnic areas along with many bushwalks to view lookouts, gorges, cliffs, waterfalls, open forest and woodlands.
Wandering in the park, you can spot such fauna as lyrebirds, the platypus
Koen Casteels Belgien Trikot , scrub turkeys, lorikeets, whip birds and bower birds.
Other than its natural assets, Mount Tamborine is home to many villages with craft and antique shops, galleries, wineries, tearooms and restaurants.
There's a lost to see and do at Mount Tamborine. You can go hang gliding, follow the Antique & Collectables Trail
Simon Mignolet Belgien Trikot , go horse riding, and wander through the botanical gardens. So it's best to start your visit off at The Tamborine Mountain Information Centre in Doughty Park, North Tamborine
Wildlife buffs can enjoy the vast array of local fauna at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, home to the world's largest collection of Australian native animals.
Covering 27 hectares of landscaped land and bush, it began in 1940 as a hospital for sick and injured animals. It's currently home to more than1400 mammals, birds and reptiles.
Among the exhibits are Tasmanian Devils, a house of reptiles and the biggest walk-through aviary in the southern hemisphere. There's also a miniature railway that has been running since 1964.
The Sanctuary offers a powerful learning experience via its fascinating wildlife shows and displays and nightly Wildlife Adventure tours. The latest innovation is Wild Island, an outdoor adventure playground and interactive science activity area. It's a fine activity for young people as it combines entertainment with education on wildlife.
Another intriguing natural option near Surfers Paradise is a visit to a bee farm.
Known as Superbee Honey World
Kevin Mirallas Belgien Trikot , it's a working honey factory. Here you can enjoy live bee shows and sample the world's widest range of pure honeys. Admission is free and it's open daily 8am - 5.30pm.
As you make Surfers Paradise your base to explore the surrounding region, you can take your choice from a broad array of Surfers Paradise hotels to suit all tastes and budgets. Two of the most popular are BreakFree Enderley Gardens Surfers Paradise and BreakFree Equinox Surfers Paradise.
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Richard Greaves has over 20 years experience in the travel industry and writes for Cheaper than Hotels. Cheaper Than Hotels offers Surfers Paradise hotels as BreakFree Enderley Gardens Surfers Paradise and BreakFree Equinox Surfers Paradise.
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by Tao Jun, Dong Hua
HO CHI MINH CITY, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Holding her one-year-son in her left arm, leading her three-year-old son by her right hand and looking much older than her age, Dao Hong Phuc is tirelessly bargaining for some new clothes ahead of returning home to central Quang Ngai province for the Lunar New Year Festival known as Tet.
But many other migrant workers in southern Vietnam are not as lucky as Phuc who works for Pou Yuen, a Taiwanese-backed sports shoe maker in Vietnam's in Ho Chi Minh City.
No matter where they work, Vietnamese people worldwide and in Vietnam in particular try their best to return home to spend time with their families during the festival.
However
Eden Hazard Belgien Trikot , due to financial hardship, many cannot afford the journey for home, often hundreds of kilometers away, so they have to spend the Lunar New Year period elsewhere.
Most migrant workers are born in the central or northern region, and many work in the southern key economic zone, which covers Ho Chi Minh City and the seven provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Ba Ria Vung Tau
Romelu Lukaku Belgien Trikot , Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Long An and Tien Giang.
There are around 90,000 workers at Pou Yuen Vietnam, a sports shoe maker in Ho Chi Minh City's Binh Tan District, and some spared no efforts to curb their expenses in 2015, but still failed to save enough money to return to their hometowns in the central or northern region for Tet which will officially start on Feb. 8.
"Living costs, especially boarding-house rent and food prices have kept increasing
Youri Tielemans Belgien Trikot , so saving money has become harder and harder for me," one of Phuc's colleagues Minh Anh, told Xinhua.
"My total monthly salary is a meagerly 3.5 million Vietnamese dong (155.5 U.S. dollars). If I return to Bac Giang (a northern province) by an inter-provincial coach this Tet, the return ticket will cost me my whole salary." Therefore, Anh has decided not to go home, but to send the money to her parents instead.
"Four days ahead of Tet, we received our salaries and modest bonuses paid through bank accounts. We had to queue for hours before ATM machines to withdraw the cash," Anh bemoaned
Kevin De Bruyne Belgien Trikot , explaining that crowds waiting to use ATM machines around industrial parks and export processing zones before Tet happens every year.
Like Anh, many other migrant workers share the same plight. Thai Thi Phuong, who has worked for a company in Hiep Phuoc Industrial Park in Ho Chi Minh City's Nha Be District for six years, said that this is the fourth consecutive Tet she has not returned home to the southern Soc Trang province.
"I desperately want to go home for Tet each year, but when I look at my paltry salary, I think .
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