Great Gifts smallest continent

Australia - one of the most developed countries, but also an ideal place for new and vivid impressions. Australia is considered the largest island and smallest continent. This is - a country of paradoxes, attracting people from all over the world.

On the territory of which the square is approximately equal to Europe, is home to only 18 million people. Most of them are concentrated in the cities at the coast. The balance of the area occupied by a variety of landscapes: from the rainforests to the mountains and, of course, deserts. If you are tired of the hustle and rhythm of big cities, you are free to go to one of five hundred and forty national parks and found there a secluded spot, put up a tent and a lot of days to see no one. Not without reason, Australia is still considered one of the least populated places on earth.
Thanks to films and books with the word "Australia" imagination paints an amazing and mysterious image of the Aboriginal and ritual dances around the fire. Therefore not surprising that the most popular souvenirs are imported from Australia - this is their crafts. One popular gift is the didgeridoo. Didgeridoo - it's an ethnic musical wind instrument. It is believed that he belongs among the oldest musical instruments in the world, along with the jew's harp and tambourine. These Australian didgeridoo have a length of 50 centimeters to two meters. They are made from eucalyptus branches, which in times of drought termites consumed the core. However, there are also a didgeridoo, made from bamboo. Incidentally, the word didgeridoo has no relation to the language of the natives. This name came up with the colonists, as it resembles the sounds, which publishes the tool. Themselves as Aboriginal people often refer to it as yedaki. Didgeridoo sacred instrument and is used during festivals and sacred mysteries. Didgeridoo come in many different forms, depending on the shape of the branches and trunks, from which it is made. You never see two identical "votes" didgeridoo, each has its own particular tone and beauty. Many tools are decorated paintings and drawings of animals totems. Didgeridoo serve as a wonderful gift and a symbol of Australia.
Another musical instrument, which is found everywhere in Australia, is a drum. The drums are different: those that emit more than smaller "high" sounds, other sound more "deeply". But you will not necessarily drag with a "hefty fool" in the floor of human growth. Would be enough for a small drum, which can be clamped between the knees. Very original and colorful gift that can convey the spirit of Aboriginal Australia.
Well-known and popular subject, which is famous natives, is a boomerang. It is believed that Australia is their homeland. Since time immemorial, in Australia, the boomerang was used as a fighting and hunting weapons. At present, throwing the boomerang is one of the most popular sports and leisure activities among residents of Australia. Entire industry engaged in the production of sporting, toy and decorative boomerangs. They are made of fiberglass, plastic, molded plywood. But the best boomerangs - it made home-natives. The main material are twisted roots and branches. They are treated in a special way, and then begin to paint. This painting of a boomerang has its unique features, meets certain quality and plays a role. In Australia there are special centers (Tyapukay, for example), where you can teach yourself to paint a boomerang and throw it. So you have a unique chance to bring their friends as a gift this boomerang Australian aborigines, to establish that you also had a hand. Moreover, you can teach them to correctly use it.
Original gift may be churinga. Churinga a plate or stone with a picture or inscription. This is not just a nice trinket. Previously churinga been the subject of the sacred and taboo. They played a very important role in the lives of Australians. According to the beliefs of people from Australia, churingi belonged to the far-distant ancestors from the mythical age of Dreams. In ancient times they were with him, and when the body dies, the spirit remained churinge. At the spot where it happened, arose sign, tree or rock is unusual bizarre. It is believed that in such places ancestors are still waiting for his reincarnation. Aborigines believed that churinga like people experiencing feelings that can soothe, if stroke churingu hand. If you decide to present as a gift churingu, then you present something like an amulet, which will be for your friends mascot-keeper.
Popular are the huge ostrich egg. The size of these eggs with about a half-liter jar. These eggs are painted in various patterns, sometimes making them the whole picture, the benefit of large size can make it without any problems. You yourself can do it, buying a "naked" egg. If you do decide to bring a gift, then no harm will arrange a special stand, and convenient packaging that after the trip instead of eggs were not found in his baggage just a colored shell.
Not be ruled out that your friends are collectors or simply a lover of ethnic motives. Then, most likely, they will be very happy to vases, plates, podstavochkam and similar items made in the national Australian style. Its distinguishing feature is the color scheme: a combination of red, white, black and yellow colors. But if you look good, then there are items in the blue-green tones.
Generally, these days the art of Australian Aborigines has been in vogue. The world's leading banks, corporations and organizations often decorate their offices in this style. Although Australian artists and experience the considerable influence of Western culture and art, their music still retains its own identity. Usually in such paintings depicted something in the traditional style. Each such image - this is a true story, a narrative that fully understood only by those who will be able to understand the worldview of Aboriginal people. Apparently this is the secret of these paintings - as if they are full of invisible spiritual energy. They are hard to look away. This kind of gift undoubtedly enhance any interior and will continue to be stylish and fashionable.
In Australia it is very hot and almost all the time blazing sun is shining. Therefore, Australians are among the few who really knows what's what in the manufacture of hats. They are made of suede, cotton, fur or buffalo leather. In general, the production uses a very wide range of skin: boar, pig, lamb or sheep, buffalo, kangaroo and even the skin toads. Hats made of leather often decorated with crocodile teeth. Australian hat is very elegant, you can be sure that will not go unnoticed. In addition, they are reliable (for example, the famous hat company «BC Leather hats» are made of specially dressed leather, and serve as the host throughout its life, often passing through inheritance) and comfortable so that, with his hat on, you instantly forget about its existence.
As you may have noticed, major attractions and "flavor" of Australia are mainly associated with the aborigines and their culture. It should be remembered that the export of Australian things, is a natural or historic values, is strictly prohibited. Arriving in this amazing country, you will not feel a lack of exoticism, and you can find for your friends great gifts.