9th of 50 Must See Places - TAJ MAHAL Weston Creek, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By Sol de lune on 20-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3Q0GA

Well, the end has come. It has taken a little longer to get out and collect the caches, but today was the day.

A fun series that a few people managed to find. Number 1, Paris, was found the most - a total of 324 times, while number 38, Prague - was only found 231 times. Bit of a difference.

All caches, along with the attachment system, have been removed, with only one cache not found.

Thanks to all who visited the area and found the caches.....hope you enjoyed your walk/ride.

Ty

9/50. Again, never been to India, but would love to! TFTC

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

#4505 @0738
I learnt, via the Geocaching Canberra Facebook Group, that this series was soon to be archived, and therefore, became my #1 caching goal for this weekend. I parked near the first cache of this series and started out at 0645. I arrived back at the car at 1102 having completed the series, plus the extra one and another nearby cache. As I neared the end the temperatures were getting quite hot, and I welcomed each opportunity to be in the shade for a few seconds before moving on. Overall, well worth the effort as I'm planning on doing the Canberra100Challenge in March (just 50km for me). As I'm new to Canberra it was good to see more of the countryside, and the Australian fauna - just birds and insects today and a few Kangaroos.

I've never been to India. My daughter has just visited there this summer.

My tally of places visited so far is 2/50. TFTC.

Did a suite of caches on the last day of the year along the 50 Must See Places power trail in an attempt to round out a middling year of geocaching - big plans for 2015, but not giving up on 2014 just yet! Met fellow cachers Liz and Bruce en passant and they were a team clearly destined for great things, particularly as they extended some cacher chivalry and dropped us back to our car on this warm Canberra day. Thanks for the set, we'll return one day and finish it off! TFTCs

With the end of the year looming and Brucie not needing too much of an excuse to push hard for our next major milestone the decision was made earlier in the week that if possible we would attempt this series to give us the numbers we needed. The day proved hotter than we expected but the walk was delightful. We did try a shortcut at one stage but ended up thwarted by a high fence. We saw one black snake, plenty of roos from extra large size to medium and lots of crickets. The hides were good and on most occasions we found them without any problem. A couple of the under rocks ones threw us till we read the hint. Happily I can say that many of the wonderful places on the list I have been fortunate enough to have visited in my many years of travel. A great series with a theme particularly close to our hearts [^][^] A few more caches were also found closeby to the series. Near the end of the trail we met up with a couple of Victorian cachers which was a lovely way to finish off. Thanks to Sol de lune for placing this cache.

I decided a while back it would be cool to hit 500 finds before the end of the year, but now just a few days out I found myself about 40 cache finds short. Time for a power trail ! Realistically, I have only two evenings to hit the mark - I'm still working during the break, and NYE is already spoken for. So I headed down to Coppins Crossing to give it my best shot. Luckily this evening was cool and being near the summer solstice, there was plenty of daylight left. I didn't hit the trail until about 1800 and was soon counting off the finds. I spotted a pattern in the way the caches were hidden which made the search a bit quicker - although not always easy. I think I found 25 in this run. I'll be back at it tomorrow - weather and opportunity hopefully permitting completion of this series. Thanks SDL for this series.

I did this entire series with my geomum and geodad. We started around 10 am and it was almost 5:00 pm by the time we got back to our geocar. All the caches were in good condition except for a few that weren’t hanging. When we first arrived at the start of the series we thought that it was not possible to do this series. We were going to turn back when we noticed the recent log entry the day before saying how it was possible to do this, so we decided to give it a go. It ended up being a bit of a disaster. We were forced to jump over one fence and had to turn back and come along the same path back to our geocar. It was not possible to do this as intended as we couldn’t find a trail from the last cache back to our starting point without being blocked by fencing, so we ended up having to cycle all the way back to the starting point. Maybe someone with local knowledge is aware of trails that are not on maps and can lay out a few waypoints to help other cachers.

I am 9 years old and I managed to do this series. So, while it’s possible, it’s a lot harder than it appears on the map due to the construction and the fencing. I think the only reason we were able to complete it is because it was during holidays and no one was working at the site. This trail is now more suited to our geofriends artemidorus1 and midmy7 who are regular cyclists.

Sorry for the cut and paste log. Thank you for placing this fantastic series of caches. Hopefully this series will not be lost to the construction.

Found the ENTIRE series today 1 through to 50 and then the extra one as well

I brought my bike down and started the ride at 9:30 am. I was not confident that I would find every cache in this series as due to the previous logs the nearby construction seems to have proved difficult for some people, and the series was talked about being archived a few months ago.

However to my surprise I did not have much trouble at all and found every cache in the series in about 4 hours

Thanks for this series, alot of work has gone into it. All caches seemed to be in good condition apart from a few that were missing their hooks and are no longer "Hanging" but they are all still at the correct coords.

Have barely been to any of these places as I am still quite young. So sorry I don't have much input Hopefully one day. (sorry for the generic logs)

Tftc! So spectacular!

Tftc!
5:45am already getting hot.

Easy to find and a lot of fun riding around here on a still sunny day! TFTC.

Enjoyed myself walk around the loops - took 6 hours to complete - saw many kangaroos, birds, river - the weather is very nice for me to walk... Signed the log. Thanks SDL.

Went for a caching hike on a nice Sunday afternoon with Gumby Maca. Realised we weren't alone when I noticed a travel bug on the window of a car in the same parking area.

I haven't been to the Taj Mahal (yet).

[green]If I were to pick my 50 Must See Places, I reckon 46 of them world be in Australia [^] Another would be in Japan, but how's that Taj Mahal! Mumtaz Mahal must have been one very special Persian princess Exploring the Lower Molonglo with [blue]Sumbloke[green] provided a great opportunity to ponder other destinations on our planet, whilst appreciating our own locale. [blue]Thanks for the series Sol de lune

Wandered over to this cache after the leaving the bikes on the main path. No problems here. Haven't been to India yet.
Thanks Sol de lune

Found with AnnieG27.

TFTC - Found with HypoHippo3000

Another good one thanks sol

Great idea ready for a day of geoing. Found with bluewattle and snickersallan.

Found with Bluewattle & Fit02, TFTC

Found with Snickersallan and Fit02

Found but no one had been to India!

What to say here....found it:-D

Decided to do this cache trail after the Haunted series the night before. Dug out the trusty MTB again and spent about 2 hours out in the reserve... the afternoon followed a pattern of: memorise landmarks from static maps on the phone, pedal a short distance, stop, get off, find cache, SL, check phone... and repeat over and over

Well what a wonderful series of caches. We did them with our two geokids aged 3 and 1. Caches easy to find and the 3 year old loved finding them before mummy and daddy did! The geoparents loved discussing the places that we had either been to or would like to visit. We felt quite pleased that we have been to 23 out of the 50 already which we felt pleased with. Yep been to this one too!

10 of 78 for the day. Great series of caches. Fun day. Will get there soon. Thanks Sol de lune for this series.

On a chilly winters morning out for quick morning stroll. Didn't bring a pen so will have come back to write it up. Tftc.

Was up for a challenge to do this along this track TFTC.

Found with Swifty on a nice day out.

Combine the Taj Mahal with a trip to the Red Fort for a great day trip.

9/25 found with GeoTerps on saturday 19/4

Found with PNLE on a very pleasant Sunday morning walk. Haven't every made it to the sub-continent...

Thanks for the cache Sol de lune.

Thanks

Thanks

I have not visited the Taj Mahal but would love it. A dodgy gut which hates curry and horror stories from friends who have suffered while visiting India, have prevented me from visiting so far. Thanks Sol de lune.

Construction works means some bush bashing

#2,536

Bikerbuddy & I drove to Canberra today specifically for this series of caches. We hadn't had much time for riding lately, and thought this series would give us both a fairly easy ride & some good caching.

We had a great time, found all of the caches, bikerbuddy had an easy ride & I got very tired.

Thanks Sol de lune

We had been forced off road for the last two caches due to a construction area. We finally got back to a track with this one, albeit rutted with the tyre marks of trucks which made it a bumpy ride up the slope. We found the cache easily enough. Toriaz must have been a little worn out already - in fact she said she was a little tired from the cross country deviation - and she took my bike as we made ready to leave. She even wheeled it a little way without realising what she had done. It wasn't until she tried to get into the seat, which is too high for her, that she realised what she had done. Caching can really take it out of you!

Found on a cycling caching adventure with Liv81 and allrounder.

Thanks for putting all the caches out there Sol de lune, we had fun!

Quick find, second in the series. TFTC !

Fun!

Found @ 12:25pm with Shadow! and Liv81 as we attempted to find all of the "Must See Places" series (including the two extras) on bike in what turned out to be quite warm and muggy conditions. We did them in order so this was 9th of the 52 attempted with 1 DNF, taking 4hrs from start to finish.

Have I been to this location: No but I had the opportunity in December '97 to go with the Australian (women's) cricket team (we were in India for the World Cup) - I turned down that chance (I needed a break from the team!) and toured around with the coach of the Pakistan team (Shadow!) instead!

If not, would I like to go to this location: No

Thanks again Sol de lune

This entry was edited by allrounder on Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC.

8 of 52 caches found with allrounder and Shadow!

India not on the list...

TFTC...

An overcast day was ideal for walking this series even if it was a bit humid. Started fairly early and had them all in hand except one by 1pm. The exception was No7 which is now within the bounds of a construction exclusion zone. The cache may in fact be a goner? Thanks for an enjoyable walk. I doubt that any finders of this series will ever be fortunate enough to visit all these locations. I am fortunate enough to have seen several. Haven't been to the Taj. TFTC

I commenced my walk starting at No. 21 heading towards 1. After dropping the car at the recommended parking area, Bill was taking his bike & riding from 50-22. He couldn't get his GPS to work so he walked to meet up with me. At number 7 the gate was open, Bill returned to get the car & we completed the rest of the series in air conditioned comfort.
We enjoyed doing the series, all caches we found were in good condition.
We visited here, I had my photo taken at the same spot Lady Di had .
We thoroughly enjoyed out trip in the Rajastan region of India.
A favourite spot for location
Thanks for placing this series Sol de lune

Found 3:42 pm. TFTC

Found at 13:25 - TftC

TFTC

A bit of a trek up the hill bought us to our next cache, where we also had a small chat about the Taj.
Found with Carrumel and Dan.

* Great for photos, and I would love to visit the Taj, but it's lower on my list as at this stage it's one of the only things I want to see there.

Thanks for the cache!

Nice walk

9!

A couple of hours on Australia Day afternoon was the perfect time for a trip 1/3 of the way around the world. Armed to the teeth with my trusty geo-pencil and geo-iPhone hooked up to a monster 15,600mAh Hyperjuice Plug (battery pack) (golly the GPS usage by the phone sucks the power), I tripped backwards from the 15th Must See Place to the 1st Must See Place. I'm beginning to appreciate the $ investment the COs put in for our enjoyment. TFTCs.

Although I have been to India, I have not been to this famous place. Thanks Sol de lune

Found on a ride around the world with the geokids. TFTC

Attempted this trail as I needed to get some caches as I hadn't been caching for a while. TFTC

Another found to achieve our aim - 100 caches in Australia.

Thanks for the series
ciao, die Limbacher

This year we have a long winter holiday when we are travelling in the Pacific. We are doing sightseeing and geocaching. Now we will spend a six week period in Australia where we will drive from Melbourne to Murray Bridge and then via Grampians to Canberra, Sidney and Brisbane.

Before we left Canberra we wanted to take a walk and at the same time pic some caches. The weather was a bit grey so our choise became this trail. We only did a part of it (1-23, 46-50 and the two extra). It took us 2,5 hours and we walked 8,5 km.

We found all cache on our way, some of them on the ground.

We had visited a lot of the places in the list. For some of them we agree that it is a "Must see place" and for others we do not agree at all.

Taj Mahal is a beautiful building in a very interesting country.

Thanks for the cache. Greetings from Sweden / Geparderna

Thought I'd beef up my cache tally and meaning to do this for some time. Took 4.5 hrs by
bike and that includes all 50 and Ranger range/ All rivers Run/ and the Two extras.
Not sure how long these will last as civilization is quickly incurring on a few of these caches:-(
This series had the lot, Hills, rocks, nasty bugs, quick finds, harder finds, colour coded caches,
one or two with broken lids, one or two fallen off the wire, and for tall or short people.
A pleasant start at 7.15am to get out of the heat and by the end happy to finish:-) Cheers.

A quick find and we are off on our round the world race.

TFTC

2013-12-17 10:45 With a few days here in the ACT to spare I took a look at the map and thought, that looks like a series. Sure enough it was. Set out this morning with the aim of completing all 50. Made it through them in about 4hrs15mins. It was getting quite warm out with a forecast of 30 so once the 50 were complete it was time to get out of the sun. My thanks to Sol de lune for the series.

X-Country baby!!! (Owww) PRICKLES!!!

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Wanted to do this loop and had thought to do it Tuesday 26 November but a quick check of weather changed my mind and am so glad as it was quite warm enough this afternoon. Thought I may have to break it into two parts but am pleased to have completed it in one go. A great chance to try to get to know Little Red Riding Hood (my new GPS) a bit better and I did but the clouds this afternoon set her off a little, but by then I was well on course to understand Sol de lune's methods. At first I wondered about the indicator for the hanging mechanism on some, but soon realised its importance when trying to replace the caches. Was actually taking more time to open, sign log and to replace it, than to walk from one cache to the next. (Well a little exaggeration maybe - but I managed to improve that eventually.) If I didn't find the caches quickly I realised that I had presumed that I knew where they were and soon rechecked and discovered I was at the wrong spot. Not surprising that some tracks are starting to show as people try to avoid the blackberries. I think it is going to take more time to complete this logging process than it was to walk the circuit as I try to strain the brain for comments on each location that we are fortunate enough to have visited. Many, many thanks for this wonderful circuit Sol de lune.

Loved the little car and was already wishing I had one to travel these tracks. Will the feet hold up?

Taj Mahal: On the "To Visit" list - looks incredible.

The focus of today was the 50 Must See Places series. I had seen it on a map of Canberra and thought that I might do it in my holidays, on the way back from Port Macquarie. So today was the day. It was an excellent day for it to, with mainly sunny skies but not too hot and a cool breeze.

Amazing looking place. Would love to go some day.

My thanks to Sol de lune for the cache.

If we happened to be in the area we would visit this Indian icon. It is such a majestic building and the gardens appear fascinating however Mr y’stassie is more interested in the cricket and Mrs y’stassie in the textiles. We would however visit this icon if we found ourselves in this part of the world.
Another quick find.

Set off around one PM after a late start to the day. Good walk! Remember to take sunscreen with you, the meeples are a bit pink after three hours wandering around in the sun.

Haven't been to Tah Mahal

I set off with the intent of finding all 52 caches in this series. My aim was to complete this mission in under 5 hours. I wanted to find 10 per hour, or there abouts. A bike mount for my GPS had arrived in the mail just the day before, so I had to test it out. My bike hadn’t seen daylight for ages, but it should be OK. The weather wasn’t looking too good after the snap cold that had just set in, but I was ready to take a chance. I grabbed my beany instead of my helmet. The sky was dark with grey clouds, and at 8.28am I set off. Finding some of these caches reminded me of hanging picture frames on my wall, not sure why. Anyway, after cache #9 I sheltered from some rain under a tree for 9 minutes. Between cache #16 & #17 the brakes on my bike needed adjusting, luckily I had some basic tools. Then it was the bike seat, it became loose. Had to tighten it. At cache #22 more brake problems. This repair delayed me another 8 minutes. Cache #34 took me the longest to find: 15 minutes, but most caches were found within afew minutes. At cache #48 my GPS ran out of juice. Lucky I had a spare set. Cache #52 was logged after 4 hours and 15 minutes. Total distance according to my GPS was 14.4 kms. I enjoyed every second of too. Except for the thorns. And the uphills. Oh yeah, top 50. I won’t log each cache individually, but if you need a place to stay in Christchurch, New Zealand, Airport Birches Motel in Russley is the place. I stayed there in 2005 and the service and location are the best you’ll ever find. Thanks again Sol de lune for this series. Now I just have to jump back on my bike and do this another 51 times…

Done

We came at this one the wrong way doing a bit of cross country trekking but cache was quickly found.
I don't know how many times I have driven past here and have never noticed this structure.
TFTC

Broom broom

Up we go...but not to the Taj.

Nice cache TFTC

#445

2nd cache for the day,
to anyone who wants to find this series I recommend doing it sooner rather than later, as this fire trail will be a road and the trees will be bulldozed.
Anyway a cool cache series Sol, thanks.

I have been to the Taj Mahal, and it's definitely worth the trek. An early morning train ride from Delhi to Agra, then not far from the station to the Taj. On a sweltering hot day, the marble is still very cool and refreshing.

And the craftsmanship of the inlay work is just incredible.

Did you know the four minarets that surround the Taj Mahal were deliberately built leaning slightly away, so that should an earthquake hit, they'd fall away from the main structure and not onto it!

Found

#956 - 07:55; The ninth in the series completed after an early start in the hunt for find number 1000. Having been abandoned by my fellow cachers mastahdemoli and Canberrachick and with Rapidlywild and specimenX running rampant in the Riverina I was doing it solo. It was a beautiful morning and just me, the roos and the birds while I headed around to see what I could see! This was one of the stopovers on a 'trip of a lifetime' offer (Just $25k per head) on a chartered Qantas jumbo I received an offer for recently. Gee it was tempting. TFTC Sol de Lune

Sry haven't visited India.

A great day to go riding the some of the tracks of Stromlo. Plan is to find all fifty in this series plus any other nearby whilst enroute. Thanks Sol de lune.

TFTC

Geocache #546.
Found on Sunday, 8th September 2013 at 6:49 AM.
Conditions: clear.
Current streak #39 days.
Today's finds 10 of 82.

My 445th find for The Great Scouts Australia Geocaching Competition 2013. With just over a week of the competition remaining, I had some leave owing and decided to take it for a geo-adventure in the Australian Capital Territory and Canberra. What a way to celebrate Canberra's centenary, as well as the Federal election!

Officially day one of my trip and the night before I made the plan to tackle the 50 Must See Places power trail to begin with. I set off from my hotel at about 5:45 AM and left the car at the suggested parking site to start at number one. Once at GZ, it was a quick find and I soon had the CIH and log signed. TFTC Sol de lune.

"JordsAU

An early morning start for us and Delta Response Team and with four of us on bikes we had a great day riding around. It's a pity that this area will no longer be available caches like this but I am sure other will replace them.

Unfortunately the nearby technology was no help, but we didn't need it anyway - TFTC

Cache # 9 for today,

A Plan was hatched with JuSoJaRa and Diamantina Stars to go out for a day of Power trail blitzing. Thins included the 50 Places and NRL series. A 6.30 pick up meant we had a nice early start.

A quick find then abit of a bumpy ride to the next one going cross country

TFTC

Strangely it was just a small box hanging off a pine tree. How odd.

Found with ucanfindmojo and pirry after lego expo

Found this after the lego expo 2013

Found with Mandi and Pirry

Nice day to do this kind of trek. Thanks for the adventure

With Mandi and UCanFindMojo

TFTC

This entry was edited by pirry on Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 12:11:58 UTC.

Found and logged at 9:15
One of 55 cache for a day of caching while completing the Must See Places
I have forgotten how cold and windy can get
Thanks Sol de lune
Lgoody

GSAGC #617. I was in Canberra for an International Team meeting so planned to tackle the 50 Must See Places series of caches on Friday 2nd August. Had hoped to finish all 50 in one day but started out a bit late so decided to go in reverse order to give myself a Uriarra Road bailout option.

I began with #1 & #2 then jumped across to Another Extra, An Extra, followed by #50 to #17 - 38 in total and a new daily record Had to call it a day at this point but I returned for an hour to complete the series before my Sunday evening flight home to Perth. I thoroughly enjoyed this series and was most impressed that all the co-ords (with just 1 exception) were absolutely spot on. The containers were also of a good size and easily found. Whilst the scenery was somewhat bland, I enjoyed the invigorating walk through the rolling hills of the Molonglo Nature Reserve.

I've visited the Taj Mahal twice already with my Geoson - next time I'll be taking the Geospouse with me I've also rewarded this series with a FAV point and Scout Pathtag 01 at the 50th of 50 Must See Places - Zanzibar. Bravo Sol de lune for the great effort that you have put in to this very entertaining series of caches. However, I suggest that you subtitle this series "Scrambles through the Brambles"

Maybe one day will see it. TFTC

Our 6943rd overall find.

My usual partners in crime had already completed this series so with a work trip on Friday, I decided to stay an extra night and complete it before heading home. The weather forecast all week didn't really have me too excited and as I woke this morning to the sound of rain I stayed in bed a little longer.

I kicked off the day at 8:20, the sun was shining I could see blue sky and best of all there was no rain. As the day went on I had rain and a bit more rain. The best bit is that only one cache was a bit damp and it didn't take me too long to get the feel for the hides.

The saddest thing was that I realised how many places I still need to visit!

Thanks Sol de lune for the cache and the series.

Majestic cache thxSDL

This was a nice and quick find by Geoson. Really enjoying the series.
TFTC Sol de lune

fantastic very well hidden!
tftc!

SL TFTC

Found

TFTC

Took the 4 grand-kids today for half a dozen of caches. They loved it and didn't even complain about the cold wind. I had to make sure they would find at least one each... The serie is very good for that. Thanks a lot Sol de lune