Victoria and South Australia roadtrip in a nutshell

A FEW NUMBERS:

• Trip duration: 14 days (excluding flights) - 11 days car rental & 3 days in Melbourne.
• Flight time: 23 hours, London - Melbourne, via Dubai (with same aircraft A380, Qantas Airways).
• Total distance: 4,500 KM (the map below shows the main visited cities).
• Max speed allowed on Oz freeways: 110 Km/h.
• Av. speed of 70-80 km/h drops significantly (to 40-50 perhaps) after 5 pm due to wildlife.
• Weather in September: sunny all day (10), one/two up to a few showers (4 days).
• Max temp: 25 C (Adelaide).
• Min temp: 6 C (850 m Altitude - Boroka Lookout Grampians National Park).
• Average temp: 17-19 C during the day.
• Kangaroos spotted in the wild: 40.
• Kangaroos that jumped in front of our car while driving: 2.
• We spotted a koala in the wild after having spent over an hour in the bush looking for one.

FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALIA

• Surprisingly Australia is the most obese country in the world as of 2012 with a 26 percent obesity rate despite being a sport loving nation.
• The only nation-continent of only 20 million people in the world.
• Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital of Australia.
• Melbourne has been named the world's most liveable city for the fourth year in a row, by the Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability survey of 140 cities.
• Despite having a convict colony history, Australia's homicide rate is 1.2 per 100,000 population compared to the 6.3 per 100,000 in the United States 

BUDGETING A TRIP TO OZ

• Spending budget: main costs excluding accommodation: (1.63 AUD = 1 GBP as at Sept 2014).
• Av. Fuel cost: Unleaded 95 - 1.65 AUD / L.
• Av. budget mealprice: 10-15 AUD
• Flight cost: 950 GBP per pers.
• Car rental price: 500 GBP.
• Speeding fines: 350 GBP two fines - exceeded allowed speed by respectively 7km/h (100 GBP) and 15 km/h (250GBP)
• Av. wildlife park price per pers: 30 AUD.

OUR TRAVEL MAP (-> click to enlarge)

Note : A few day trips are not represented below due to Google maps restriction on the number of destinations.