Seven days ago we spent a long weekend on the famous Fraser Island. The island is made from sand and is indeed the biggest isle of this kind. We booked a guided tour with 34 other tourists from all over the world (one Swedish family, a talkative Italian guy, who is living in Australia for about two years, a couple from Mexico and one from South Korea, two independent travellers (UK man & Japanese woman) and two large groups from South Korea and China). The level of understanding was very differing, the UK man was able to understand any detail from the guide and mostly of the Asians didn’t catch a word – I guess. Anyhow, the tour was very exciting, and we discover all the main attractions of this beautiful part of the world. But, what is so spectacular on Fraser Island?

As I explained before, Fraser consists only of sand, no stones or something similar. Of course, there is some organic material that are being produced by the various and numerous trees. Besides the large forest, there are some lovely and clear water lakes and endless and quite superb beaches. These beaches are definitely not suitable to take a bath (to the dangerous causes of sharks, sharp stones and poisonous jellyfishes). They are more ideal replacement for the missing streets on the island. If you want to visit this sandy place, you will use a four wheels drive vehicle. Even then, you could bog down in the sand. But, which were the main appeals of this tour?

First at all we visited a very Maggi Place. The rainbow beach got his name from the different colours of the sand. The sand cliffs is made of yellow, red, white and brown kinds of sand. The name “Rainbow beach” is furthermore the name for a little village next to this beach and close to the ferry bridge to the Fraser Island. The transfer from the mainland to the isle is unexpected simple, a small ferry and two natural, sandy shores. That’s it.

After a four hours drive in the coach, we needed an active break. How about walking through a fairy-tale wood and taking a bath in a lovely lake? That was less a question than a fixed event in the guided tour. However, I enjoyed the barefoot stroll to the little pond in the middle of a moving sand dune. Without a doubt, sand dunes are shifting from one place to an other and during this walk they bury the forest without any hesitation. No matter what, we took pleasure in spending some time at this wonderful place.

The next day, after a very entertaining evening with our roommates (a swedish doctor and the independent UK traveller), we did some sightseeing on the island (visit an old shipwreck, take a bath in a Champaign baths and a very refreshing river) we were offered the opportunity to take an island flight. Ok, 75 $ / person is a bit pricy for 20 Minute flight. But, firstly we haven’t known the length and secondly the airplane was starting and landing at the beach. How awesome is that! Regrettably, we only were flying about 20 Minutes, but it was quite magnificent.

The sum up, like in an advanced writing, the whole trip was imposing.