Sunset on Uluru

Uluru - Day 30 & 31

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April 6th 2007
We took off early from Melbourne and flew to Uluru (aka - Ayers Rock). The flight was about 3 hours and it took us from a nice temperate cosmopolitan city to a deserted red landscape in the middle of the country. The outback is known to the Aussies as the "Red Center". We deplaned and picked up our rental car for the next three days, and headed for our campsite at the Yalara Resort. Once we set u ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more