...just landed at Alice Springs Airport

Alice Springs to Cloncurry

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October 16th 2008
Our return flight from Darwin to Alice Springs was pleasant...although we had transversed this same trek by train heading north 5 weeks earlier it was amazing to view the ground from the air with all its vastness, beautiful ochre colours and at times the main highway between Alice and Darwin also the train track which we had happily rattled along in The Ghan... We felt a bit like we had come ho ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

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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