http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Northern Territory , Alice Springs en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:34:59 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:34:59 UTC Bueno a ver Dejamos Townsville y pusimos rumbo a Carins donde pasamos las dos ultimas noches en caravana han sido 10 dias y 2200Km desde Brisbane a Cairns yo la verdad la echo de menos es divertido viajar a lo hippybrut. Devolvimos la caravana y nos dirigimos a la ciudad donde pasamos 3 noches mas. Buceamos en el Gran Arrecife de Coral cogimos el Tren y Telecabina que te llevan y traen del pobl http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-350881.html g'day blokes and sheila's So the journey continues. We have left the cosmopolilife of sydney and arrived in the Red Centre otherwise known as the Outback. This is a truely a vast and desolate area. Almost no water or life for thousands of kilometers in all directions from the center. I don't know how much ya'll know about australia...but the super short history lesson is australia was a prison f http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-349769.html 191108 Can we make it to Tennant CreekWoke up early in heat and had toast for breakfast making full use of electricity paid for and toaster bought for van. Did a mini shop at supermarket then set off for first place Camooweal. I was driving and wasn't too bad since had charged MP3 players and could sing along to music to keep entertained. Next stop was Barkly homestead and changed drivers http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-349012.html so ich bin wieder unter zivilisation.....das ist wahnsinn von dem tag an an dem wir in adelaide losgefahren sind hatte ich weder handyempfang noch irgendwo internet oder telefon aber jede menge funmittwoch morgen gings von adelaide nach quorn zu unserem motel fuer die naechsten zwei naechte. das war endlich mal wieder ein richtig gutes bett ....ja und unterwegs waren wir wieder auf divers http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-348317.html 15th November 2008 NAT DEBS AND CHUBBS ON THE ROAD......We got to the campervan shop at around 11.30 and were shown our new best friend for the next 40 days. He was a 'chubby van' so we named him 'Chubbs'. Not so original I know but we thought it suited him. Basically a van.....two seats in the front a table and 2 sofas in the back that convert to a bed a kitchen when you lift the back up. By http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-347140.html D'autres photos. Nous quittons Alice Springs et sa senteur d'eucalyptus. Depart pour Cairns. http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-345199.html Quelques ajouts de photos http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-345155.html Nous revenons d'un trip de 3 jours en camping dans la region du celebre mont Uluru. Nous etions avec un groupe organise. Premiere journee nous avons parcouru 500 km pour arriver au campement. Nous avons randonne autour des Olgas desertiques mais tellement collorees. Nous rencontrons nos premiers lezards genres prehistoriques. On savoure une biere au coucher de soleil sur Uluru. Deuxieme journee http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-345144.html 31108 Monday Day 81After checking out we headed to the bank first to collect our atm cards. Then we hopped on a bus to the airport to get our flight to Alice Springs. We have a tour booked for the next two days to visit the red centre i.e Kings Canyon Ayres Rock etc. The weather here then is savage warm compared to Perth. After getting to our hostel we headed into town to grab something to ea http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-343815.html So we last updated you from Hervey Bay when we were about to leave for Frazer Island the largest sand island in the world. We got together with 8 other random backpackers and hired a 4x4 between us complete with all the camping gear. The Island has no tarmac roads and it didnrsquot matter who was driving we got stuck in the sand and often had to get out and push. That was all part of the fun http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-342159.html Schick mal ein paar Fotos zum testen um die Welt. Damit ihr euch ueberzeugen koennt dass ich noch unveraendert ausseh. Leider ist heut Abreise meines Bruderherz und ich mach mir mal Gedanken wie es bei mir weitergeht bis jetzt ist alles offen. Cairns gefaellt mir ganz gut da werde ich noch paar Tage bleiben. Nach den letzten Tagen straffen Programms werde ich es erstmal ruhiger angehen muss d http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-341806.html We enjoyed our Fish N Chips in Darwin they were quite yummy Really liked Darwin. On the way out of Darwin we had to stop at a department store and buy a fan we cant take this heat anymore and I am too scared to have a door open all night incase of spiders get me inthe night. Its been a life saver well worth 24We left Darwin and went to Litchfield National Park only a short drive there http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-340684.html Back to Alice SpringsOctober 29 2008Goodbye to Uluru and our cozy cabin. We had an uneventful drive back to Alice Springs with the exception of a doozy of a dust storm that lasted about 30 minutes. In Alice we stopped for 15 minutes at our hotel to drop off the luggage and to fix a quick sandwich from the stuff in our ldquoCool Bagrdquo and we were off again. This time we headed 25 miles w http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-340190.html Nach 2 Tagen Fahrt sehr viel Spass und einem Auto was immer noch gehalten hat waren wir dann in Alice angekommen. Haben auf nem Caravanpark in unserem super Zelt mit riesen Luftmatraze danke Timo geschlafen. Fands echt nett da suesse kleine Stadt mit paar zu vielen Aboriginals die in der Fussgaengerzone rumhaengen...lol. Nee war nett da. Waren 3 Tage da und dann haben wir nen Ausflug in die W http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-339811.html Got up early and took a taxi to the airport where I saw the Rolls Royce that was owned by the local airline it was converted to a Ute and was used to drag logs behind it in order to smooth the ground for a runway I understand from the locals that this original pioneer is still alive at 93. I discovered that the taxi driver was called Bob and that he had lived in Alice Springs for 20 years afte http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-339594.html Early start about 0530 phone call quickly packed checked out called Stephen had breakfast and then caught the AAT Kings bus out of Alice Springs along the Stuart Highway. Within an hour in the middle of nowhere we passed the federal prison where the murderer of Peter Falconio is currently being held. The incident occured along this main highway basically the outbacks M1.Soon we arrived at ou http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-339051.html A Town Called Alice Day 25October 26 2008We havenrsquot seen that movie or read the book ldquoA Town Called Alicerdquo but now that wersquove been to Alice Springs we surely will. The Ghan uncharacteristically arrived 30 minutes early so we had our rental car and were checked into our room at the Desert Palms near the casino and golf course by noon. Seeing all that nothingness on http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-338897.html Just got back from an Outback Barbeque and boy was it goodAfter our lunch break this afternoon we drove out to the old Telegraph Station. Alice Springs was a repeater station for the telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin back in colonial days. The Telegraph master was big man on campus apparently. We saw 3 kangaroos just hanging around the buildings of the station. Next we drove to the Anzac Memo http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-338262.html Had a bad night sleeping thanks to my cold and not being able to breathe. Up at 600 breakfast and then left hotel at 815. We got to the airport and couldn't get in the staff hadn't gotten there yet. But we didn't have too long to wait and once again group checkin went quickly. And once again H got tagged by security for random explosives check. Flight from Uluru to Alice Springs was on http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-338148.html 0530 saw a lovely outback sunrise all red and violet the colours were spectacular.We have not entered the red centre where the soil has changed from teracotta to bright red. There is alot of low scrub land with clumps of trees it seems that where the water holes are the trees are bigger and more dense the further away the tree is the smaller it gets almost to the size of clumps but they are st http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-337693.html The tour was leaving at 6am so again an early rise. We had a new tour guide Natalie and most of the people on the previous tour was on this one as well so I knew it would be a very fun tour as well. Early that afternoon we made it to Kata Tjuta or the Olgas as they are most famously known named after a Spanish queen by the explorer that discovered this place. We did a 23 hrs trekking throu http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-337244.html 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 home a http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-334806.html Some pictures from the road trip from Adelaide to Alice Springs via Coober Pedy Uluru Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon.We left Adelaide at 630am in our Groovy Grape bus. We spend the first day driving and watching the scenery change from urban sprawl as we left Adelaide behind to the bush. We stopped in Port Augusta for lunch and then it was back on the road. Our first ovenight stop was at Coober Pe http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-332723.html Wersquore feeling hot hot hot It is at least 38oc and we are slip slap slopping with our factor 45 and when feeling brave we use our factor 30 sunscreen.The aboriginal culture is brought to life and meaning in this visit. Known as the A7753angu people in this region their indigenous culture is brought to life in their Aboriginal land of the Outback. The lands hold a special place in http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-331236.html Day TwelveLeft Alice behind today with a collective sigh of relief. Wersquore all ready to move on and it felt good to be on the road again. Last night we went to a lsquostar talkrsquo an organised event at the caravan park. At 7pm we trundled up the hill and listened to a bloke who takes his stars very seriously. He told us about planets vs stars that Alpha Century is in fact two star http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-327673.html Hi Y'all. Turning country up here. Even listening to the country hour on ABC Alice Springs. Can you hear the fiddles Ran out of power last night sorry. To finish off the storm calmed but the dust turned the sky an eery orange colour. It was much quieter at this caravan park last night and we all slept well.This morning we left for a day out after Bron had finished fighting with a washing http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-326584.html Hi all love your messages keep em coming. Hey Craig everyone else can see our fab photos. I thought u were a technical wizard like Doc perhaps i was wrong Today started at the Alice Springs Desert Park. It's like a big garden divided into seperate desert areas river sand and woodlands. We saw an amazing bird show with millenium falcons magpies a boo book owl and black kites. Fab. Amazi http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-326302.html Day 1 in Alice SpringsAs our tour to Ayers Rock or Uluru as it is now officially called had been brought forward by 1 day we decided to explore Alice Springs. We needed to catch up on some sleep from the Kakadu trip so we stumbled out of bed late morning and went to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre. We saw a variety of snakes and lizards before getting to the important part of holding them. I http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-326215.html Its hot very hot. 30 every day.once again this a brief post. Will be making with the extensive writing next week when we have some free time on the coast. so far we have travelled 4000km. from darwin to ayres rock and back up to Alice Springs. I have soooo many amazing photos using up alot of memory cards. Briefly we have been to Darwin Kakadu national park Kathernine Tennant Creek Alice Sp http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-325442.html So here we are in a town called Alice....The weather is ridiculously hot here and the ground is very red Coming from Queensland the difference in landscape is overwhelming the luscious green rain forest and now the dry red desert.We were to commence our tour on the 21st September which i'm sure everyone knows is a very special day unfortunately it did mean getting up 6am for a 6.30 pickup http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-325185.html