Kata-Tjuta

The Red Center: Uluru, King's Canyon, and Alice Springs

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May 1st 2012
The journey here continues through Australia from Adelaide to Alice Springs on The Ghan. The Ghan is a cross country train that travels straight up through the center of the continent. It only makes a few select stops, mostly because there isn't much between Adelaide and Darwin. It takes two days to get to Alice Springs on the train and then another two days to get to Darwin from Alice Springs ... 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