Desert

Central Australia

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August 22nd 2016
Days One and Two 5:00 After an early start, we drove down from Toowoomba and enjoyed breakfast in the Brisbane Airport Qantas Lounge...courtesy of our American Express Platinum Card. A nice perk! We flew through a lot of cloud so weren't able to enjoy a lot of the countryside. We arrived at Alice Springs in the rain, caught the shuttle to our hotel, walked across th ... 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