Eastern Australia Trip. Day 6 : Gold Coast

First, Gold Coast famous with amusement park as I mentioned in the earlier post, then the coastal city rich with a long-stretched white-sandy beaches. It also referred to as "the green behind the gold", where the Tamborine Mountain and the Springbook are located. Currumbin and Numinbah Valley are also not-to-skip place for those who love nature. We decided to no-go for the nature, we had much of it on the Blue Mountain, and we would have island vacay on the next day. That will cover on later post. So we opted for outlet shopping and then wandered the Surfers' Paradise in the evening.

The skies started to dark when we were heading to Biggera Waters. It was raining heavily once we reached the Harbour Town Outlet, the Australia's largest shopping outlet, and homed to the 14-screens Reading cinemas. Big-brands such as Coach, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss and Nike as well as iconic Australian brands including Oroton, R.M. Williams and UGG Australia. We had our early lunch at Ispa Kebabs, the taste of Mediterranean in the coastal city... P

Nu'man has been eyeing for Smiggle since at home

50% off! It's really a good bargain...

Big platter of beef, lamb and chicken, just enough for 3 of us

After nearly of 3 hours, that's all that we bought.. P

Not before going back to the hotel, I drove around the town looking for Chemist Warehouse. My cousin suggested that the outlet offers a good fragrance's bargain. Indeed, it was true, but the Coral scent for her liking it's not easily to get. We have been searching for that since we were in Sydney. Luckily, we found the Bvlgari Coral at one of the outlet. Ticking off our shopping-list, we went back to The Shore.

We were searching high and low for Bvlgari Coral fragrance

After dusk, we took the tram from the Surfers Paradise North, 5 minutes walked from our apartment, to the Cavill Avenue. The nightlife started to rolling in as we walk through the avenue. Many things can be done here, from the Timezone Attraction to the fulfilling your appetites with the street foods.  We popped in to The Ripley's Believe it or Not!, located just in forn the Paradise Center. Seeing all the weirdo and crazy things of our interest. Nu'man have it the most. Crazy mirror, shooting guns and the laser room was the most enjoying moment for us!

Getting familiar with the tram's ticketing machine

Yeaaa....keretapi dah sampai!

An obligatory photo shoot

It's not Bumblebee, but it's a Car Robot! Made up of automobiles parts

The World's Greatest Girner, and Nu'man was mimicking 

This is a shark's vertebrate

Errr...

Robert Wadlow is the tallest man ever!

Nooo... it's curved! P

The last will of the Marvel's comic book writer, Mark Gruenwald

Then we walked to the beach, the Surfers Paradise. The festival of 2018 Commonwealth Games was held throughout Gold Coast, and the event was held along the beach. We saw the beach volleyball grandstands on the Coolangatta beachfront, the day we arrived here. It will be held on early April, nearly one month to the event. Apart from the festival promoting the Commonwealth Games, there was also a Sand Safari Arts Festival. Runs on yearly basis, the Sand Sculpting Championships made us amazed with the arts being shown. It was extraordinary experiences!

Taking pictures at the main entrance to the beach

It's ain't the real sand sculpture

The 2019 Commonwealth Games, 41 days to go!

So much dedication has to be put on these efforts...

The 3rd place winner

The winner!

2nd place creativity...

Does this relates to any Malaysian franchise?

Ice-creams and choco churrito's for us!

Yup, I know.. it could be churro plus burrito, so they called it churrito's. We grab for the snacks before we called the day. Tomorrow, we exploring yet another interesting place to be visit at eastern Australia!