Uluru and Trees

So It Looks Like We're Not Climbing The Rock Then

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August 7th 2006
After a night in the resort, it was another early start to view the sunrise from the sunrise viewing area. The Yulara Resort has now all been bought up by a single company and is hence now a complete monopoly. As a result it is now very expensive. We were amazed that that was allowed to happen. It was then finally off to Uluru itself. At this point we had a number of options that we could do, i ... 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