25 unexpected discoveries that awaited tourists in Australia (28 photos)

Oh, Australia ... That glorious place where absolutely everything including the weather, sooner or later will try to kill you. Only will survive the most prepared, and the best way to prepare is to listen to those who has been through it. In this case, Reddit users, who answered the question "What was the most unexpected thing you saw in Australia?"





1. “I used to think that the best days of my life would be associated with marriage, children, maybe career success. And then, visiting his brother in Perth, I saw a pelican in flight hit a baby right on head. game over".



2. "The fact that the Australians started a war with emus in the 30s and lost."





3. "I'm an arachnophobe, spent 2 weeks in Australia and didn't see a single spider."



4. “Penguins. Who would have thought that there were little Australian penguins running around? It struck me."



5. “Absolutely everyone I met was happy. I came from Glasgow, Scotland and it was a huge cultural experience for me shock".



6. “How incredibly loud the birds sing in the morning (cockatoo and magpies, your angry cries in the end I still fell in love). And also fearlessness of parrots. Their bright colors and apparent lack of the instinct to "hit or run" made me think: these parrots, apparently, do not have predators. Rosellas (in Canberra) and rainbow lorikeets (in Sydney) are just landed next to me and ate from my hand. It was magical".



7. “Colorful flocks of birds. I fell off my bike for the first time when a flock of roselles flew past me.



8. “Ice cream called Golden Gay Time. I was 13 and couldn't help but send the photo to all my friends."



9. “Coffee houses. God, I was pleasantly surprised. I lived in Sydney for one semester, and wow, your coffee shops are seriously awesome. Everywhere had great drinks and delicious food. Coffee shops like you have in every block, I can hardly find in the whole city.



10. “Beets in burgers. For what?"

Answer: "I'm pretty sure it's written in our Constitution. Besides, this is the only way to make sure that we let's eat it."



11. “Pankid. Australians are surprisingly witty and possess great sense of humor. In addition, they usually have a dark, cheeky taste in jokes. Ironically, Australian comedians far less funny than the people you meet on the street."



12. “I remember getting off the plane and noticing that all the colors were different. Like the sun got brighter and the sky bluer (perhaps because we left Germany in the winter and arrived in the summer), but also silver-green eucalyptus - we don't have that color."



13. “Something that you can get badly burned in the sun in winter. I am a Canadian living in Australia."



14. “Before I came to Western Australia, I knew that it will be huge and hot. However, I was not ready for her will be so HUGE and so HOT. Another surprise was frogs in the toilet, and an increase in the number of frogs when flushing - more big surprise. You couldn't even see the water because of the frogs."



15. “I'm an astronomer - the moon is here backwards! In the northern hemisphere, when the moon grows, it fills from right to left, and when it decreases, it moves in the samedirection. But in Australia, growing the crescent starts on the left. It took me another second to understand what exactly I see, and I was just delighted when I realized why does it happen like this?



16. “No kangaroos. I was convinced that the kangaroos here just roam the streets.”

Answer: "You obviously haven't been to Canberra..."



17. “Cakes. Everywhere. And it's not a complaint."



18. “I visited Australia for the first time last year (I am from New Zealand) on Soundwave (music festival, if anyone doesn't know). When it began to get dark, around as if nothing had happened, they began to soar the bats. It seemed so strange to me, because in the New In Zealand, you can only see seagulls and pigeons. Bats have a place in zoos/caves/jungles/forests, not in cities. Damn you Australia, you're creepy."



19. “What an INCREDIBLE wine you have!”



20. “The fact that almost the entire population lives off the coast. The center of [Australia] is huge and deadly. I don't know why, but my brain explodes when I see a photo with these signs that they warn, they say, the next gas station is f***ing how far away, so be ready or die."

Answer: “We have to live on the edge, because there is no water anywhere else. No rain, nothing."



21. “Tall Poppy Syndrome. You need to take care of yourself ... Here egalitarian society, so if you come from a society that celebrates success and brags about it, you will usually be treated with dislike."



22. “My friend recently moved there from Texas and says, what shocked her most was how strongly Australian millennials love the Simpsons."



23. “For me (a German), the most amazing thing upon arrival turned out to be how frivolously the Australians behave with the local wild nature. A bunch of little jellyfish in the water near Sydney Harbour? Boy enters the water, takes one with both hands and comes up to us: “Guys, I I haven’t seen these before, does anyone know what kind of jellyfish this is?



24. “I moved to Australia from New Zealand at 14 and I remember most of all how I was struck by how huge it seemed the sky, because compared to where I came from, the earth was incredibly flat and wide. The horizon stretched out infinity!".



23. “In the first days after my arrival, I went to buy more suitable shoes and was sure that the saleswoman was flirting with me. Bought something else in another store and flirting again. Another store and the same most. Turns out they don't flirt. They are just very friendly. Smiled and showed interest in me just because it's the way it's supposed to be here. I ended up getting a job where I had to walk door to door selling things, and I was struck by how rarely people sent."



24. "Shop of liquor with a cash desk for servicing motorists."



25. "Australian surfers ... My God, my eyes have never seen anything better in my life."