Day 13 - Uluru Finally, the day we'd all been waiting for had arrived. Today we packed up early and headed to Uluru. From the pictures, it seems like Uluru rises out of a flat open plain with nothing else around for miles and whilst that is true, I had this idea that the whole of the country side would be flat, never-ending open plain. So I was surprised that the countryside is actually very hilly right up to within probably 20 klms of Uluru. I thought that we'd be able to see Uluru from about 150 klms away! In fact, the first monolith you come across is actually Mt Connor, which apparently often gets mistaken for Uluru. Its still quite a long drive to Uluru from the Mt Connor lookout and the broken records in
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