Kakadu National Park Tour with Adventure Tours

For visiting the Kakadu NP I booked a guided tour because the famous waterfalls could only be visited with a 4WD vehicle. We were a group of nine backpackers from many different nationalities and Brian - the guide. First we did a rivercruise on the Mary River where we saw about 40 crocodiles. We also visited an Aboriginal art site where Brian explained us a lot about the different decades and meanings of the Aboriginal paintings. We were sleeping in swags which is like a small moskito net one person tent that you only have to fix to something like you can see on the photo. It was really nice to sleep in there because of the "air-condition" and the star sky. On our way back to Darwin Brian explained us the giant termite mounds. He told us about the termite queen who can get over 80 years old. She has heaps of workers, soldiers and alates in her mound. The workers go on building all the time, so that the mound grows about 1 metre per year. The soldiers take care of the mound if there are enemies. If ants come and try to get into the termite mound they go and spit a termite smell on them so that the other ants fight against their own fellows. The termites laugh out loud and take the mickey that the ants are that stupid. The alates are there to offer the queen sexual service and help to let the termite community grow. If a termite queen dies all the workers, soldiers and alates pack their suitcases and move out of the mound ;-).