Buddhista templom avagy a 21. szazad csodaja / Buddhist temple or the wonder of the 21st century

Kb. 3 hete voltam Woolongongban (mondtam, hogy itt minden 3. varos neve W-vel kezdodik :)), hogy megnezzem a deli felteke legnagyobb Buddhista templomat. Lelekben, valami regi(marmint itteni mercevel merve) epuletre keszultem, mindenfele erdekesseggel megspekelve. Hat ez ossze is jott, na persze nem egeszen abban a formaban, ahogy gondoltam. Maradjunk annyiban, hogy nem valoszinu, hogy visszamegyek.

Woolongong ropke 2 orara van vonattal delre Sydneytol, elso elmenyem a tavolsagi vonattal. Hat az itteni masodosztaly kb. olyan minosegu mint nalunk a piros barsonyuleses, kabinos elso. Szoval megszoktam mar :). Az allomastol a templom egy ropke 20 perces seta, balra szemetgyonyorkodteto ipari negyed hatalmas kemenyekkel es szmoggal, jobbra autopalya, mogottunk gyonyoru hegyek. Termeszetesen a templom az autopalya mellett talalhato. Utkozben megismerkedtunk a hires ausztral legyekkel, amik abban kulonboznek az otthoni legyektol, hogy kisebbek es pofatlanul agresszivak. Belerepulnek a szemedbe, orrodba, szadba, ahova eppen akarnak es abszolut lehetetlen elkergetni oket. Nagy szerencsemre en vilagos ruhaban voltam es hala a jo egnek ezek a sotetet szeretik, szoval vicces volt latni a tobbieket, akik sotet ruhaban, a hatukon kb fejenkent 50-100 leggyel utaznak, mig rajtam nagy ritkan 1 esetleg 2 megult :) Anyaztak rendesen :)

A templom kivulrol igeretesnek tunt, szep kert, szobrok, nagy epulet, autentikus kinai. Bedobtunk egy fincsi vega ebedet az etteremben, ami olcso is volt raadasul annyit ehettel amennyit akartal, majd elindultunk az idegenvezetovel a turara. Sok erdekes dolgot tanultam a Buddhizmusrol, de a kedvencem az ausztral stilusu idegenvezetes volt. Egyreszt teljesen interaktiv, szoval az idegenvezeto egy csomot kerdezget, emellett tolja a poenokat, amik raadasul viccesek is, nameg nem kell vegigrohanni az egeszen, van idod nezelodni.

2 nagy templomot lattunk, tobb tizezer Buddha szoborral, belulrol nagyon szepek voltak, felteszem a kepeket, amint vegre megkapom oket. Es akkor most jojjon nehany 21. szazadi erdekesseg, amiken hasaltam:

No.1.: Elore csomagolt, "Szentelt Viz". Palackozva Melbourne, tartalma Szentelt Viz. Sajna nem lehetett lefenykepezni :(

- Legkondi beepitve a templomokba felulre, hogy kellemes huvos legyen
- Dugaszok a falban, termeszetesen a leheto legrosszabb helyeken
- A gyumolcsaldozat bemutathato gyumolcs-zselevel toltott piskota kepeben, amint azt sokan meg is tettek
- Egyeb aldozatok: Nescafe, csokis keksz, muvirag
- Egesz eves imadkozas 1 szemely 60 dolcsi, sok szemely (ejtsd csalad) 100 dolcsi
- kis biletak lognak a lampionokrol, megemlekezve a cegekrol, akik adomanyt adtak a templom epitesehez
- a viragfuzerek a templom oldalan muanyagok, es gondos onkentes kezek tekerik oket fa oszlopokra
- a muzeumban az elokovek kozott kerti es szobai csobogok "keltenek" vizeses hangulatot, fustgep tolja a parat, a vizben nagy muanyagviragok uszkalnak, kozepen pedig egy nagy arany szobor terpeszkedik a rengeteg betonbol faragott szobor kozott. A bejarat melletti vaskos kabelrengeteg csak emeli a valosagerzetet. Az, hogy minden kiallitott targy utanzat, gondolom mar nem is meglepo.

A vegen meg megkongattunk egy hatalmas, ritualis gongot - kulon a turistaknak felallitva -, hogy joszerencset kivanjunk az otthoniaknak, remelem megkaptatok. :)


I was in Woolongong (I said that almost every 3rd city’s name starts with W) almost 3 weeks ago, to see the biggest Buddhist temple on the southern hemisphere. In spirit I was preparing for something old (I mean, according to Aussie standards) with lots of interesting thingies. Well, I got it, but not necessarily in the form I have expected. Let’s say I am not convinced I will go back again.

Woolongong is a mere 2 hours travel to the south from Sydney by train, my first experience with the intercity trains. Well, the 2nd class here equals to the red-carpeted, 1st class trains in Hungary. So I got used to it J The temple was a quick 20 minutes walk from the train station. On the left, breathtaking industrial district with huge chimneys and smog, on the right motorway and traffic, behind us a beautiful hill with trees. Of course the temple was next to the motorway. On the way we familiarized ourselves with the famous Aussie flies. Their main differentiator is that they are smaller than in Europe and much more aggressive, they fly into your eyes, mouth, nose, ears, wherever they want and it is absolutely impossible to chase them away. I was very luck that I wore light clothes as they are attracted to darker colours. It was extremely funny seeing the others with 50-100 flies on their bags while I was carrying max 1, sometimes 2 flies at a time. They sweared like hell J

The temple seemed promising from the outside, nice garden, sculptures, big building, authentic Chinese. We had a great, veggie lunch in the restaurant, which was cheap and you could it as much as you wanted. Then we left with a guide for the tour. I learnt lots of interesting things about Buddhism, but my favourite was the Aussie style tour-guidance. It was completely interactive, so the guide asked lots of questions, paralelly joking all around (and having good jokes!) and you do not have to rush around, you have enough time to look around.

We saw 2 big temples, more than 10000 Buddha statues, they were beautiful from inside, I will upload the pictures as soon as I get them. J And now let’s see some interesting 21st century facts that shocked me:

No.1. Pre-packaged “Holy Water”. Made in Melbourne, contains Holy Water. Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures L.

- Air conditioner is installed into the temple to make it cooler
- Plugs in the wall, of course at the worst places
- The fruit sacrifice can be made with fruitjelly filled biscuits and lots of people did that
- Other sacrifices: Nescafe, choco cookies, artifical flowers
- 1 year prayer: 1 person 60 bucks, a lot of person (meaning family) 100 bucks
- Small papers were hanging from the lamps, commemorating the companies who donated for the construction of the temple
- The flowers on the side of the temple are made of plastic and volunteers are putting them on wooden crosses
- in the museum amongst the living stones you could find garden and room mini-falls to create a “real waterfall” effect, a smoke machine provided the fume, plastic flowers were floating in the mini-lakes. In between concrete statues a big golden Bussha was taking the main seat. Next to the entrance, the thick cable-jungle just contributed perfectly to the atmosphere. Well, I think the fact that all objects in the exhibition were replicas would not surprise anyone anymore.

At the end we ringed a huge, ritual gong – set up solely for tourists – to send our best wishes to our family and friends. Hope you received it J

Jutalom #2/ Award #2

Most nyertem 10 dollart a PayPal-lel, mert vettem valamit rajtuk keresztul. Juhuuu :) Remelem meg meccsben vagyok a 10000 dolcsis fodijert is :)

Jah es meg elek, sok erdekes dolgot csinaltam/lattam, majd leirom oket vmelyik nap :)

I just won 10 bucks through Paypal, because I bought some stuff through them. Yupeee :) I hope I am still competing for the 10000 bucks main prize :)

Ohh, and I am still alive I did/saw some interesting stuff, I will update my blog soon :)

Jutalom / Award

Kaptam ma (is) egy "Brownie pointot", ami a mi piros pontunknak felel meg, mert kiszurtam egy eleg nagy hibat a hetfoi globalis marketingkampanyban. Amikor mondtam, h nalunk piros pontokat szoktak osztogatni, mindenki elkezdett rohogni, hogy ez biztos valamilyen komcsi orokseg. Ki tudja, meg az is lehet, hogy igaz :)

Today I got a "brownie point" (again), which is equals to the "red points" in Hungary, because I noticed a quite big mistake in our Monday global marketing campaign. When I told in the office, that we have red points, everybody started to laugh, asking if this is a communist heritage. Frankly speaking I have no idea, probably...

Nevek / Names

A munkam keves szepsegeinek egyike a csodalatos nemzetkozi nevallomany amivel talalkozom. Volt mar Batman V. Superman-unk. A legujabb szemelyek Rhonda Ho es Hulya Kocak. Meg szerencse, h irasban lattam oket, nem eloben.

One of the inspiring parts of my job are the wonderful international names I meet. I had Batman V Superman previously. The newest people are Rhonda Ho (almost as Ugly Snow) and Hulya Kocak (almost as Hulye Kocsog - I think I do not have to translate). I am lucky that I saw them on paper and not live on phone.

Mebourne Kupa / Melbourne Cup

"A verseny, ami megallitja a nemzetet!"

Ez a Melbourne Kupa szlogenje. Na, ki tudja milyen sport ez?? Hmmm? Loverseny!

Sose gondoltam volna, hogy egy egesz orszag ennyire megszallott lehet valami irant. De hat mindig tanul az ember. Meg hat, azert kell nemi ego ahhoz, hogy ilyen szlogent adjunk valaminek. Meg ha ez a legkevesbe sem tulzas.

5 perce lett vege a futamnak, nagy elmeny volt, mar kezdem erteni mi vonzo lehet a loversenyben. Nezed nezed, folyamatosan valtozik az eredmeny, majd az utolso 10 masodpercben az egesz felborul es varod a celfotot. Iden Viewed nyert 1 centimeterrel, 3200m-en...

A bar, ahol voltunk dugig megtelt erre az 5 percre, mellettem egy szemre 70 eves neni fogadott eppen es kert meg udvariasan, h ne alljak be a kepbe :D

Amugy ma Melbourne allamaban (Victoria) es a fovarosi teruleteken munkaszuneti nap volt a Kupa miatt, es amugy egy tomott, baromi forgalmas varos (Sydney) kb. zombi volt a futam elott/utan (meg most is az, konkretan 5 ember es 5 auto volt az utcan). Hat igen, ez telleg egy eletforma itt :)

"A verseny, ami megallitja a nemzetet!"

"The race that stops the nation!"

This is the slogan of the melbourne Cup. Who knows which sport is this??? Hmmm??? Turf!

I have never ever thought that a country can be so addictied to something. Well, it is never too late to learn. And you need a certain ego to promote an event like this. Even if it is completely true.

5 minutes ago the race ended, it was a great experience, I started to understand what is so attractive in turf. You are watching it, the situation is changing in every second and then it turns upside down in the last 10 seconds and you are waiting for the photoat the finish. This year Viewed won by 1 cms in 3200m...

The bar where we were was full for that 5 minutes, next to me some 70 zrs old lady was betting on horses and asked politely that I should move further from the TV :D

Besides that today in the state of Melbourne (Victoria) and the capital territory was a national holiday because of the race and an otherwise completely crowded city (Sydney) was nearly empty like a zombie town before/during and after the race )well it is still empty, there were exactly 5 cars and passengers on the street). This is really a lifestyle here!

"The race that stops the nation!"

Kulináris élvezetek / Enjoying food

Tegnap ettem Kenguru husit. Nagyon finom volt, angolosan, spárgával. Kifejezetten izlett. Kovetkezoleg a krokodil hus jon, de azt nem Sydneyben eszek majd, mert itt nem csinaljak jol :)

Yesterday I ate Kangaroo meat. It was extremely good, english style with asparagus. I really liked it. Next time I will try crocodile meat, but not in Sydney because they do not know how to cook it well :)

Kek Hegyseg / Blue Mountains

Az elmult het eleg erdekesen telt. A munkam javult sokat, hogy atvettem jopar feladatot a tobbiektol, szoval a het vegen mar elveztem is. Egyik este egy eloadason voltam az egyik egyetemen. A Nemzetkozi Kormanykozi Klimavaltozasi Tanacs (ENSZ testulet, tavaly ok kaptak a Nobel-dijat) elnoke adott unnepi beszedet es lattam egy eredeti ausztral diplomaoszto unnepseget is. Sajna nem csinaltam kepeket, de a ruhak nem semmik, olyanok mint Angliaban. A fo kulonbseg, hogy itt egy csomo poent elsutottek, szoval eleg laza hangulatu volt. Formalis, de humoros. Jo kombinacio. A beszed maga erdekes volt, de inkabb ilyen bevezeto a temaba. Fo Uzenet: Minel hamarabb kezdunk el valtoztatni az eletstilusunkon egy fenntarthatobb vilag erdekeben (ertsd max 5-8 even belul) es beleolni par szaz milliard dollart fejlesztesekbe (a kov 30 evben) annal kisebb lesz a visszafordithatatlan resze az eghajlatvaltozasnak. Ha nem valtoztatunk, hat, akkor nem biztos, hogy sokaig akarok elni. Az erdekes az volt benne, h nem vilagvege hangulata volt, hanem "Ezek a tenyek/szamok, valtoztassunk mi hetkoznapi emberek" Szimpatikus volt.

Penteken vettem egy turacipot szombatra a kirandulasra, jofajta Columbia akciosan + kaptam egy-ket tippet hol lehet megolcsobban venni dolgokat (azert szep lassan belejovok a dolgokba :D).

Szombat, hajnal 5:30 keles, el kell csipni a 6:26-os vonatot. Zuhi, pakolas, reggeli, szendvicskeszites majd egy olimpiai sprint es meg pont el is ertem a vonatot. Termeszetesen, hogy egy nap se teljen el 'kozlekedesi erdekessegek' nekul, hetvegen vagayfelujitas es zar volt az en vonalamon, szoval eltelt par perc 2 megallonal mire ki/megtalaltam, hogy akkor most nekem merre is kell majd mennem. De szerencsesen megerkeztem a kulvarosba, alig 10 perc kesessel :). Ott megismerkedtem par uj emberrel: egy spanyol csajszi (1 hete erkezett), 1 mexikoi srac (o itt van mar 3 eve), 1 ausztral srac (eleg ritkak manapsag Sydneyben :D) meg Marcin es en, igy mentunk el Katoomba-ba, ami a hegyseg hozzank kozelebb eso vegenel fekvo kis, aranyos hegyi telepules. Elso allomas az Echo Point (`Visszhang Pont`), hat a taj lenyugozo. Minden elenkzold a kornyeken, kicsit tavolabb pedig a para es a napsutes miatt mar turkizkeknek tunik, innen is jon a neve.

Bameszkodas, 5 perc tanakodas, h melyik osvenyen induljunk el, majd elindultunk. Sok minden erdekes tapasztalatra tettem szert ekozben...

- Tavolsag, uresseg: mi egy forgalmasabb utat valasztottunk; ertsd: a bejaratnal es a kijaratnal ugy 10-20 emberrel osszefutottunk. Kozte eltelt 6-7 oraban senki. Nincs terero sehol.

- Termeszet tisztelete. `Itt a ne nyulj semmihez!` alapszabaly, ha nem akarsz a/ baromi nagy fajdalmat atelni; b/ a+meghalni. Itt is el egy csomo halalos pok, kigyo stb, amik altalaban elkerulik azt a fel meteres savot/lepcsoket, amit itt turistautaknak hivnak (ld. kepek), de ha veletlenul osszefutsz veluk, akkor jobb beken hagyni oket. Erre kedvesen figyelmeztet is partiz tabla :)

Az elso 30 percben minden egyes poktol majd beszartam, aztan rajottem, hogy vagy megszokom oket, vagy ne menjek tovabb; ketto legalabb ingyen kurat kapok a pokiszonyom ellen. Hat egy oraval kesobb mar nem volt semmi gond, de azert nem simogatnek meg pokot.

Maga a tura kb 5000-6000 lepcso megmaszasabol allt, le es fel, megspekelve egy lenyugozoen gyonyoru, majdnem erintetlen tajjal, rengeteg vizesessel, fakkal, madarakkal (papagajok, kakaduk+egyeb kisebb-nagyobb, altalam ismeretlen szarnyas), kristalytiszta levegovel, nezzetek meg a kepeket, en minden masodik kanyarnal, mini-kilatonal megalltam bameszkodni, annyira szep volt. El is dontottem, hogy ide meg legalabb egyszer visszamegyek egy masik utonalat is megnezni.

Delutan, meg megneztuk a turistaverziojat is a hegysegnek, ertsd: minden szepen kiepitve, kerekesszekkel is meg lehet nezni (!), 3 fajta vasut (kabel, egi meg, meredek), szuvenirbolt, etterem, ami kell. Hat mi is megneztuk az egi vasutat: 3 perces ut a vizeses felett, uvegpadlos kabinban, szep volt, de semmi extra. Utana vissza is setaltunk a kocsihoz, majd irany haza. Masnap reggel kellemes izomlazzal ebredtem, ami meg ma is tart. :)

Last week was quite interesting. The job improved a lot that I took over some duties from my colleagues, so I very much enjoyed it by the end of the week.

One fo the evenings I was at a lecture at one of the universities here. The President of the Intergovernmental Climate Change Council (UN body, last year were awarded with the Nobel-prize) had a ceremonial speech and I saw a traditional australian degree ceremony as well. Unfortunately I did not make any pictures, however these were the funkiest clothes ever, same as in England. The main difference is that they were joking all the time, so it was quite cool. Formal, but funny. Good combination. The speech itself was interesting, but quite introductorz. Main message: The earlier we start changing our lifestyles for a sustainable world (meaning within max 5-8 yrs) and start investing some hundreds of billions of dollars (in the next 30 yrs), the lesser irreversabile effects will the climate change cause. If we won't change, then well, I am not too sure I wanna have a very long life. The most interesting in the lecture was, that it did not have an "end of the world" feeling, rather a "these are the facts and figures, ordinary people like us should start to do something about it". It was very symphatetic.

Friday I bought a new pair of boots for the trekking on Saturday, good Columbia with a discount, plus I got some more tips where can I buy stuff even cheaper )sooner or later I discover everything :)

I woke up at 5:30AM on Saturday, I had to catch by train at 6:26. Shower, breakfast. making sandwiches and an olympic run and I managed to catch the train. To further enrich my experience with the transportation here, there were road works and lane closures on the weekend, of course on my line, so it took some time at 2 stations while I managed to figure out where to go next. But I arrived to the suburbs safely, only with a 10 min delay :) There I met some new guys: a spanish girl (arrived a week ago), a mexican guy (arrived 3 yrs ago) and an australian guy (pretty rare in Sydney nowadays), plus Marcin and Me. This was the group who left for Katoomba, which is a pleasent village on the closer side of the mountains. First station was Echo Point, well the view was absolutely amazing. Everything is bright green, but looking from a bit further because of the humidity and the sunlight it looks blue, there we go, that's why it is called the Blue Mountains.

Wondering around, 5 minutes discussion on which path to go, then we left. I managed to gain valuable experiences meanwhile...

- Distance, emptiness: we chose a more frequently used path, meaning: at the entrance at the exit we met around 20 people. During the 6-7 hours in between nobody. And no network either.

- Respect for nature: Here the main rule is "Don't touch anything!", if you do not want to be a/ live a wonderfully hurting pain b/ a+die. There numerous deadly spiders here etc. which are usually not seen on that 50cm wide path/stairs which are called the tourist tracks (see pics), but if you accidentally meet them, well, you rather should leave them alone. There are some nice warning signs as well :)

In the first 30 minutes I was almost shitting in my pants by all spiders, then I realized that either I learn to live with it and stop here, plus I got a free therapy against my arachnophobia. Well, an hour later I did not have any problem anymore, however I would still not pet a spider.

The tour itself was about climbing app. 5000-6000 stairs, up and down, including a spectacular view, almost untouched nature, plenty of waterfalls, trees, birds (parrots, kakadus + some more smaller-bigger, unknown birds, at least for me), crystal clear air, check the pictures, I stopped at almost every second look out point and corner, just to look around and enjoy the view. I decided that I wanna go back there at least once more to see a different track as well.

In the afternoon we checked the tourist version of the mountain as well, meaning: everything is nicely paved, wheelchair accesible(!), 3 types of railway (cable, sky and steep), souvenir shop, restaurant, everything you want. Well, we took a ride on the skyrail as well: 3 minutes trip over a waterfall, glass-floored cabin, very nice, but nothing amazingly special. Then we walked back to the car and went home. A day after I woke up with a pain in my muscles that lasted for some days :)

Elmenyek a napokban / Experiences over the last days

Csak nehany erdekesebb:

1. Lattam csotanyt. Nagyot. Az allatkertben. Olyan 6-7 centi hosszu, 2-3 centi szeles. Hetfon azt hittem mozog a mobiltoltom. Hat nem az volt. 2-szer megtapostuk, kidobtuk az ablakon, majd elszaladt. Lakotarsak azt mondtak nem tul gyakori, de elofordul nyaranta 1-2. Hat en meg fel...

2. Jelentkeztem bankkartya #2-ert, amivel lehet neten vasarolni, de nem hitelkartya meg. 30 perc adminisztracio, majd kiderul, hogy ilyet csak helyi lakosoknak lehet meg tartozkodasi engedellyel. Ok. Akkor lehet-e hitelkartyat igenyelni ugy, h csak 1 honapja vagyok itt? Persze, azt lehet! Szoval a sajat penzemet nem kolthetem, de a banket azt igen. Mar ertem miert van hitelvalsag... (megjegyzes: 2 munkanap alatt a bank is rajott, h ez igy talan nem okes, es oltari nagy marhasagot csinalnak, szoval ma felhivtak, hogy megkaphatom a netes bankkartyat is. Hurra. persze ettol meg mehet melle a hitelkartya is, ha minden rendben lesz. Majd kiderul.)


Some interesting things:

1. I saw a cockroach. A HUGE one. In the Wildlife Park. App. 6-7 cm long, 2-3 cm wide. On Monday I thought my mobile charger is moving. Well it was not the charger. We stepped on it twice. Then threw it out on the window, we saw it running away. Flatmates said it is quite rare, but not unusual, last year they had 1-2 as well. Well, I would rather skip it.

2. I applied for my second card, namely a debit. With that you can shop online, but it is not a credit. After 30 minutes administration it turns out that only residents and citizens can have it. Smart. Then can I have a credit card please, although I am here for only a month? Of course! So I cannot spend my own money, but the banks... Now I understtand why we have the financial crisis (comment: in 2 days the bank realised as well that it is a bit stupid, and it they are complete idiots, so today they called me, that I can get the debit card. Yuppee. But just in case they will continue processing my credit card application as well and they will decide soon. We will see.)

Kiallitas / Sea Exhibition

Most szombaton a tengerparton voltam, megneztem a hires Bondi Beach-et (en sose hallottam rola elotte, de allitolag Sydney leghiresebb strandja). Kellemes 25-27 fok volt, enyhe szello, szoval egy 2 orat voltunk ott napozni - nagyon szep hely (kepek fenn). Mivel itt egymast erik a strandok, Sydney keleti oldalan van egy un. Coastal Walk (kb. "Tengerparti setaut"), ahol szepen vegig lehet setalni. Na itt voltak a tenger ihlette szobrok ugy 120 darab. Hat lenyugozo volt. Nemcsak a szobrok, hanem maga a taj is, sziklak, alga, novenyzet, tenger... Lattunk balnakat is, mert a tenger tele volt planktonnal, szoval jottek enni, olyan 2 km-re lehetett 6-8 egyed, spricceltek a vizet, ugrottak, meg igy a tavolbol is nagyon szep volt es eleg ritka jelenseg. Szoval megsporoltam a balna nezo turat :) Este meg elmentem az itteni IMAX moziba, a Batman filmet megnezni (harmadszorra). Allitolag ez a legnagyobb a vilagon. Hat bakker, ez nem volt semmi (gondoltam Agi am rad elotte). A "vaszon" 5 emelet magas, egesz pontosan 29,42m*35,73-es, ami azt jelenti hogy olyan 10m-rol nezve konkretan az egesz latoteret betolti, hat ez is lenne a lenyege. Tueles kep, bele lehet szabalyosan szedulni a latvanyba (plane a helikopteres jeleneteknel, olyan mintha beleesnel a filmbe), szoval iszonyatosan megerte, allitolag az uj Harry Potternek is lesz IMAX verzioja, tuti elmegyek megnezem majd. Remelem otthon is bemutatjak majd ezeket. Vasarnap csak mostam, takaritottam, aludtam (penteken meg csaptunk egy hazibulit, szoval ramfert), meg talalkoztam az elso magyar szarmazasuval, konkretan egy isteni pizzeria tulaja kb 5 perc setara tolunk :) Szoval ehen sem fogok halni mar :)

Megvan a karacsonyi programom is vegre, megvettem a jegyeket Uj-Zelandra, 12 nap a deli szigeten, jo lesz, jo lesz :) Ha valakinek van otlete mit erdemes megnezni, szoljon, cserebe csinalok rola kepet :D Jo uzlet, nem?

Most hetvegen meg a Kek Hegysegbe megyunk valszeg, bar meg ki tudja... Majd jelentkezem.


This Saturday I was at the beach, I checked the famous Bondi Beach (I have never heard of it before, but people say here this is the most famous beach in Sydney). It was a pleasant 25-27 degrees, soft breeze, so we were taking sunbath for around 2 hours - very great place (pics uploaded). Because there are lots of beaches here (surprising for an Island...), there is a path called Coastal Walk on the eastern part of Sydney. Well, the Sea Sculptures were here, around 120 pieces. This was amazing. Not only the sculptures, but the landscape itself, with the rock formations, algae, flowers, sea... I saw whales as well, because the sea was full with planctons, so they came to eat, we saw around 6-8 of them at a distance of 2kms. They sprayed water, jumped and it was quite interesting even from this distance as it is quite rare. So I saved the money of the whale watching trip :) During the evening i went to the local IMAX, to watch the Batman movie (for the 3rd time). Supposedly this is the largest IMAX in the world. Guys, this is something!!! The screen was 5 floor big, 29,42m*35,73 to be exact. So it means that watching it from around 10 metres it covers all your sight, well this would be the point too. Crystal clear picture and you can get dizzy watching it, especially at the helicopter scenes, when you are watching it from above, it seems you are falling into the movie), so it bloody worth it. I have heard that thenew Harry Potter movie will have IMAX version as well, I will go watch it for sure. I hope they will show it at home as well. On Sunday I was only cleaning, washing, sleeping (we had a home party on Friday, so I needed it). Also I met with the first person with Hungarian origins here, she owns a cool pizza place 5 min walk from us. So for sure I will not die of famine :)
I have my christmas programme as well, I bought the tickets to New Zealand, we will spend 12 days on the southern island, it will be fun :) If you have any good idea where to go, what to see, just drop me a line. In exchange I will make some pictures for you :) It is a good bargain, isn`t it? :D
This weekend we will probably go to the Blue Mountains, but it might change as well, who knows... Will keep you posted.

Sydney Akvárium / Sydney Aquarium

Mult vasárnap még elmentem a Sydney Akváriumba. Ez az egyik képen rajta is van, amit még az irodából csináltam. Elég nagy volt, rengeteg akvárium, 2 nagy medence és hatalmas választék. A kacsacsőrű emlőstől kezdve a cápán át a bohóchalig (Nemo nyomában) minden volt, csináltam pár képet, de ezt látni kell. A fél centistől az 5 méteresig minden méretű állat volt itt. Nézzétek meg a képeket. A kedvenceim:
1. Kacsacsőrű emlős. Hogy egy klasszikust idézzek "Istennek van humorérzéke" (gy.k. Gyalog-galopp) Szerintem tök aranyos, 30 centis jószág kb. mintha a kacsa és a hód keveréke lenne.
2. Polip. Be van téve pár kütyü az akváriumába, mert állítólag kíváncsi állat, szeret felfedezni dolgokat. ÉS ezt rendszeresen cserélik is neki.
3. Mini-pingvin. A világ legkisebb pingvine, nagyon aranyos, de ugyanolyan "Dögölj meg azonnal!" tekintete van, mint a koalának. Apropó: egy halon látszik mit eszik. Ha nagy kerek bamba szemei vannak, tuti növényevő. Ha kis/nagy, de sunyi, akkor tuti ragadozó. B opció: dugd be a kezed :)
4. Fókák, teknősök. Szimplán aranyosak :)
5. 70 centis rák. A világ legnagyobb rákja/homárja, filmekben szokott lenni, ami egy egész tányért foglal. Na ezt is láttam.

Mondom még ezer fajta cucc volt itt, ezek ragadtak meg, de nagyon megérte elmenni, lehet visszamegyek majd még máskor is.

Utána meg - mivel csomagban meg lehet nézni a mellette lévő "World Wildlife Park" nevű helyet is (kb egy fedett vadaspark), hát oda is elmentem. Itt is több ezer állat, nem részletezném. A főbb élmények:

1. Van koalás fényképem :) Szerintem a GDP 1%-át az teszi ki, hogy ezekkel fényképezkednek a turisták. Jah, és rotáció van, pár óránként más koalával fényképezkedik az ember/simogat meg, mert alapból elég mogorva kis jószágok, nem szeretik, ha tapizzák őket meg stresszesek is lesznek tőle (a gondozó mondta), néha karmolnak is (engem nem szerencsére), de nagyon finom puha a bundájuk. Szerintem akoalák csak a szemmel-verés képessége miatt vannak még életben, egy ragadozó rájuk néz "kicsi, szőrős, lassú de úgy néz, h mindjárt meghalok, biztos vmi nem kerek vele" azt elmegy a ragadozó. Vagy mint a durcás kisunoka, akire rászabadítanak 500 nagymamát egy nap, h megtapizza, ölelgesse stb. Tuti én is bestresszelnék.
2. Láttam pókokat. NAGY pókokat, a legtöbbje a világ legmérgesebbje/legnagyobbja (pl. fekete özvegyek, vmi ásópók stb). Azt a részt annyira nem élveztem.
3. Az egyik képen van egy struccszerű, fekete testű madár. Na, ez a madár, ha kihalna, akkor az ausztrál esőerdők jó 80%-nak befellegzett, ugyanis a madár kakija az egyetlen dolog, amiben a magjaikat be tudják porozni. Nem egy életbiztosítás. (Európában/Amerikában kb. a méh ugyanez)
4. Volt egy csomó papagáj, pillangó stb. szép színesek.
5. Lehetett simogatni kígyót (ezt kihagytam), meg abból is itt volt a világ 10 legveszélyesebbje, szerencsére nagyobb esélyed van egy villámcsapásra, mint hogy ezekkel összefuss/megharapjanak vagy kolosszális hülye vagy és direkt hergeled őket.
6. Ausztraliaban több az éjjel aktív állat, mint a nappali!
7. Egy hangya itt akár 2 centis is lehet (és atengerparton is vígan összefuthatsz velük, nem csak az állatkertben)

Hát innen ezek ragadtak meg, ez nem tetszett annyira mint az akvárium, ettől függetlenül ez is nagyon király volt, majd elmegyek egy állatkertbe is valamikor, hogy még több érdekes állatot lássak (abból van itt elég)

Last Sunday I went to the Aquarium in Sydney. You can see it from on one of the pictures that I took from the office. It was pretty big, lots of aquariums, 2 big pools and a great variety of species. Starting from platypus, including sharks, ending with clownfishes (Finding Nemo) they had everything, I made some pics, but you have to see this. They had animals from 5 mm to 5ms, all size. Check the pictures. My favourites:

1. Platypus. To quote a classical “God has a sense of humour” (for less educated people: Monty Python and the Holy Grail J) I think it is a quite, 30 cm long puppy, looks like a duck mixed with a beaver.
2. Octopus. There are some colorful stuff in the aquarium, because they are quite curious and like to discover new things. And of course these stuff is changed regularly.
3. Mini-penguin. The smallest penguin in the world, very cute, and it has the same “Die instantly!” looks as the koala. By the way: on a fish you can see what it eats. If it has big, booby, rounded eyes, it is obvious it is eating plants. If it has small/big, sneaky eyes, than it is a carnivore. Plan B: put your finger in the water and wait 5 seconds to decide :D
4. Seals, turtles. They are just simply nice J
5. 70 cm lobster. This is the biggest lobster of the world, it is usually on movies, cooked and filling a whole plate. Well I saw this as well.

As I told you, there were another thousand type of stuff there, I remember these, but it did very much worth to go there, I might go back later as well.

Later on I went to the Sydney World Wildlife Park as well (which is a covered small zoo) – because you can visit the 2 in a package. There were thousands of animals here too, I would not go into details. The best experiences:

1. I have a pic with a koala J I assume at least 1% of the AUS GDP is coming from the price of pics tourists are making with koalas. Ohh and there is a rotation, after a few hours they change the photo/pet-koalas, because by default they are quite groomy, they do not like if they are touched or petted and they become stressful too (the zookeeper told me this). Sometimes they scratch (luckily not me) and they have a very nice, soft fur. I am convinved that they are alive solely because of the fact that they can almost kill with their sights, so when a predator looks at them thinks “ohh, slow, nice and furry, but it stares at me that I am almost dieing, it has nuts, so I am leaving”. Or like a peevish grandchild whos threatened by 500 grandma`s who wanna touch and play with him. Surely I would be stressed as well.

2. I saw spiders, BIG spiders, most of them are the most poisonous/biggest in the world (eg. Several types of black widows, digging spiders). I did not enjoy this part that much.

3. On one of the pics you can see a big black bird, almost like an ostrich. Well, if theis bird would extinct, than a good 80% of aussie rainforest would go with him as the poo of this bird is the only material which helps the trees to spread their seeds. Not a good life-insurance. (In Europe/America the honeybee is almost the same)

4. There were lots of butterflies and parrots, nice coloured ones.
5. You had the chance to pet a snake as well (I skipped it) and of course they showed the 10 most dangerous on the world , luckily you have a bigger chance to get caught by a lightning then to meet them/got bitten by them or you are a colossal idiot and you purposely making them angry

6. In Australia there are more animals who are active during the night then during the day.

7. Here an ant can be 2 cms long (and you can meet them not only in the zoo, but at the beach as well)

Well, these are my most important memories, I did not like it as much as the aquarium, but besides this it was awesome, I will go to the big zoo as well sometimes to see more interesting animals (they have plenty)