Blogs from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 60

Amazing trip! I had nowhere to live for a week, so I decided to go to Alice Springs and onwards to the Outbacks to see the famous ROCK. Got so much more! 17 people, three days, hiking the area around Uluru. We walked for about 10 km every day, with spectacular views and sleeping under the clear sky, in swags. The first day we left Alice Springs early, early in the morning. We stopped for a small camel ride beofre continuing on towards Uluru. Amazing that it is actually a huge boulder, not a mountain! Took us almost two hours to walk around it. Some of the people climbed the Rock, but I chose to walk the base, since it is a holy place for the Aboriginies. At sunset we gathered for a plastic mug of ... read more

On Thursday, after watching the sun rise onto Spring, we travelled the 800km Donahue-Plenty highway from Boulia to Alice Springs, skirting the top of the Simpson Desert and visiting NO towns on the way. Mid-morning we crossed into the Northern Territory (and set our clocks back 30mins). The highlight of the day (except for the awesome nothingness) was finding a Thorny Devil. The lowlight was meeting the most extreme flies we've even had to suffer poking in our noses, ears and eyes! We arrived late evening for dinner in Alice. The next day we walked into town, climbed Anzac Hill for comprehensive views and then visited some of the historic buildings including taking a tour around the Royal Flying Doctors Service base and marvelled at the completely dry Todd river.... read more

Hello to all my travel fans (a but hungover today will explain more later!) Just finished the best 7 days of my life, seen many things that I will probably never see again and met cool people. This is a very very very long Blog. Photos at LinktoPhotos We'll start with Day Uno (1) - Tues: Was picked up by the tour company at 6.45am from Adelaide. South Aus is the wine capital of the world and we drove through lots of winerys in Clare Valley. It reminded me of Surrey with the green fields and hills. Drove further into the Flinders Ranges and had lunch at a gorge, saw Yellow footed Rock Wallabies, called because they have yellow feel, live on the rocks and are wallabies! Got chatting to the other 8 people on the ... read more

What a nice sleep in! Lazy day in Alice Springs. Cook, eat, sight seeing. It was so nice to be able to sleep in and not have to be ready by 6AM this morning! Especially knowing the next three days I'll have to be ready by 5AM. UGH! But it'll be worth it since Kings Canyon and Uluru will be in the cards. That’ll be two nights of camping out under the stars. We’ll be sleeping in something called a swag. I haven't seen one myself yet but have been told that it is sort of like a self contained sleeping "unit" with inflatable mattress and you insert a sleeping bag and the cover can close up over you. So it'll be nice to be able to sleep under the stars at night. Our guide yesterday ... read more

Well here goes ... We have seen the following (summarising first few as have emailed with before): Perth: visited king park and city. went south to bunbury and pemberton (karri forest). visited freemantle. swann river. Kununurra: 3 day tour Bungles (Pernanlulu National Park), Kelly's Nob, Lake Arglye, Ord River and Crocs!!! Katherine: Gorge(s) on a cruise, Cutta Cutta Caves (v humid), and Katherine Hot Springs (not hot so only dipped a toe) Darwin: History Musuem, Lichfield day tour (waterfalls), Jumping Croc Cruise, Croc Farm (and zoo) and we had a Laksa!!! See if you can find out what that is ... and of course Darwin itself. One of the main highlights was the evening Mindil Beach Market. A real community event that had so many great stalls (food, nic naks etc) Alice Springs: Uluru (ayers rock), ... read more