◆    Lovely
Stuffed toys is made of bysheep pelt and wool or kangaroo hair, the shape is you favorite animal. These items will arouse from your memory and missing the happy time of touching or feeding kangaroo koala at times.

◆    Delicious gifts
In the end of itinerary,you may take some natural fruit, honey and tea by the manual system preserves home. Maybe you have not tasted Vegemite (a smear of jam bread), but it is the representative of Australia, Australia friends will be happy for sending their a jam jar.

◆    Natural beauty
David Jones department store is a good place for shopping, in which cosmetic is very popular, not only they are inexpensive, but the product also add a variety of vitamins, beeswax and lanolin. evaluation of Jurlique and Red Earth is also good, especially with the environmental awareness of customers, the advertised natural and be not tested on animals would be the most attractive products.

◆    Fashion of Australian teacher
Tend towards Popular and handsome, yet casual and comfortable ,which reflects the Australian way of life. more well-known brands such as Country Road, Covers, Robert Burton, Carla Zampatti, Jag and Adele Palmer. In addition, designed by Australian designer sweater is also well-known, wore a RM Williams, Purl Harbour, Coogi, or Ken Done Knitwear sweaters, will enable you to become a work of art.

◆    Crowded market
Fresh food markets, flower markets and crafts fairs, are popular. noisy market, it is a good place to bargain. At this point, your can’t be so difficult to find some hand decorations, furniture, handicrafts and unique souvenirs. A new generation of shoppers can also find some products and crystal jewelry tribal colors. Weekend market is a cluster of multi-cultural cuisine, arts and crafts; street artists performing, in order to bring about the entertainment scene and a vivid and lively atmosphere.

◆    Jewelry
Opal is one of Australia’s specialty, there are all kinds of style, the rough stone, or cut into various shapes, everything can been find here. Many people know the opal, but few people know the world’s largest diamond mineral is in Australia. Famous pink diamond and the Arab-Israeli diamond is located in the Kimberley, trading volume is also considerable. In addition, Australia is also the largest pearl manufacturing and exporting countries in the world.

1. Precious commodities should be bought in Regular department store or specialized shops.though the price is a little dear, but there is no need to worry about fakes.
2. Tobacco, alcohol and perfume and other goods must be bought in “DUTY FREE SHOP”, These are duty-free shops to remove customs duties and excise duties. In Australia there is another duty-free shops, which name is the “TAX FREE”, this store only can exempte from excise duty, so when you are making purchases, you must recognize signs of shop signs.In the duty-free shopping, it is necessary to produce a passport and air tickets for international flights.
3. Mast card,Visa card can been used commonly in the majority of stores in Australia, when you are shopping at a flea market,which is better paid by the Australian dollar. it is necessary to produce the original passport when you are using traveler’s checks.
4. there are commonly not accustomed to bargain in big stores ,but in a flea market or the Chinese shops, you can bargain.

To pay, in principle, you can use local currency and some stores may be paid in U.S. dollars, but the change is still the local currency. (RMB, NT, Hong Kong dollars can been used in the stores which is managed by Chinese people).

Climate
Australia’s climate,there is no extreme temperature difference, but just with the Northern Hemisphere season the contrary, now is the winter.

Clothing
its temperature is from warm to hot during Summer(December to February), people should wear light clothing deduring the day , but should carry a sweater or jacket, to prevent the cooler evening;winter (June to August) should be wearing a sweater, jacket, light jacket or warm clothing.In the area to enjoy the Great Barrier Reef coral fish may be prepared by shading hat, sunglasses and suntan lotion, beach shoes also must be prepared to protect the foot.

Currency
Australian currency is decimal, for the most basic unit in dollars (100 cents is equivalent to one Austalian dollar). Notes there is $ 100, $ 50, $ 20, $ 10, $ 5 in five denominations and there is 5 Australian cents, 10 Australian cents, 20 Australian cents, 50 Australian cents, 1 Austalian dollar and 2 Austalian dollar in six denominations of coin, such as .

Time Zones
Three different time zones cross Australia:
Eastern (GMT + 10) for New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Tasmania and Queensland.
Central (GMT + 9:30) for the Northern Territory and South Australia.
Western time (GMT+8) in Western Australia.

Cashomat
As long as the ATM card holders have applied for international, will be able to use at automatic teller machines in Australia and the majority of retail outlets. For the use of cash or other services, cardholders must enter a personal password before accessing to individual accounts,you can ask the bank for the scope of application of ATM cards and service charge.

Traveler’s Check
Checks should be converted in a bank or large hotels, as it may be difficult to exchange in other places. Notes: there are some banks will need charged by exchanging travelers’ traveler’s check.

◆The Australian Flag

The flag is based on the Blue Ensign of the United Kingdom, is twice as long as it is wide, and consists of a dark blue field that can be notionally divided into four quadrants.

The present Australian flag consists of three main elements：

﹡ The Union Jack in the upper hoist quadrant or first quarter.

﹡ The Southern Cross in the second quarter and fourth quarter. It consists of five stars in a more or less kite-like pattern. The constellation of the Southern Cross stands for “the southern continent”. It means that the country is in the southern hemisphere.

﹡The Commonwealth Star or Star of Federation, central in the third quarter or lower hoist, has seven points to denote the six states and the combined territories of the Commonwealth.

◆The Australian Emblem

The supporters of Australian Emblem are native Australian fauna: a kangaroo on the left and an emu on the right.In the center is a shield，behind it are six designs . They stand for six states.

The red cross stands for New South Wales; the Southern Cross under the crown stands for Victoria ; blue Maltese Cross and crown for Queensland ; a Piping Shrike or Magpie for South Australia ; the Black Swan for Western Australia and a Lion for Tasmania.The seven points star on the top represents the Commonwealth. The tree is wattle. On the bottom is the ribbon with “Australia” on .

◆The National Flower

Wattle is the name generally used for the Australian.

Wattles have greygreen foliage in a variety of shapes and sizes, and cream to golden flowers. These flowers consist of a spherical or tubular bundle of stamens, with a minute centre.

Golden wattles stand for Australian people fond of green shade and gold-like colours. She was officially nominated as national flower in 1988.

Wattle is the name generally used for the Australian.

Wattles have greygreen foliage in a variety of shapes and sizes, and cream to golden flowers. These flowers consist of a spherical or tubular bundle of stamens, with a minute centre.

Golden wattles stand for Australian people fond of green shade and gold-like colours. She was officially nominated as national flower in 1988.

◆The National Bird  — Emu

The Emu is a large, flightless bird, similar to the ostrich but with three-toed feet and grey or brown plumage. It is the second-biggest bird in Australia and the third-biggest bird in the world (only the ostrich and cassowary are bigger). The emu is also very fast; it can run up to 30 mph (50kph). Emus also swim very well.

This huge bird lives in groups in grasslands, savannas (grasslands with some trees), and the Australian bush.The emu’s life span is 10-20 years. Emus grow to about 6 feet(185cm) tall and weigh about 110 pounds(50kg). This is bigger than many adult humans.