Blogs from Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 310

sooo sooo long since i last wrote anything! i think i'll split these entries so that they are a little more readable :) oooh, but before i start, all of my entries now have photos in, just so ya know! righty, lets get on then! had the BEST time!!!!!!!!!! it really was the most amazing experience and i came away from it all with lots of lovely new friends which is always nice :) got picked up at 6.00am saturday morning (eep!!) and we headed up to anzac hill, a hill (obviously :)) which overlooks alice springs. from there we watched the sunrise and then headed off on our ickle road trip :) at this point there was only 1/2 of the group - the rest we were picking up from yulara (the resort at uluru). ... 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

When we went to Crocodylus park, there was like, 100 crocodiles, or even more probably. They also had red kangaroos, wallabies, Emus, lions, 2 tigers, Cassowaries, 2 ostriches and lots of little monkeys. By Molly Hello everyone, Today we went to the Crocodylus Park in Darwin. We got there in time for the big saltie’s feeding. We also got to see the crocodiles in the breeding pens get fed some chicken. I got to hold a baby croc and so did Molly. There we lots of other animals at the park apart from the crocodiles - lions, tigers, emus and ostriches just to name a few. I saw my first cassowary and they weren’t as big as I thought they’d be. We saw lots of black kites (birds of prey) above the park. It was a ... read more

Set off at 7am again - pretty cold being the desert but we've had worse - and headed up the Stuart Highway towards Alice. The road directions here were 'go about 600k then take the first left' - hee hee! This took us towarsd Uluru (pronounced Ooolooroo) otherwise known as Ayre's Rock. The scenery here turned more like the red sand with gorgeous blue green and purple scrub that I've seen in pictuers. We got fooled (as I'm assured most people do) by Mount Ebenezer which is a table mountain on the way to Uluru. We stopped off at the Uluru Resort to look at the Visitor centre - about the aborigine people wholive here, the animals and the way that Uluru was formed - it's the end of a big plate of uniform sandstone which ... read more

We're just back from a fantastic 3 days in the outback visiting Australia's most iconic attraction - Uluru, or Ayres Rock as it's commonly known, as well as the Olgas and King's Canyon, and experiencing a bit of outback life, and it was great! We started from Alice Springs very early on Monday morning, as Uluru is a 5 hour drive from Alice. Our first afternoon was spent doing the base walk around the rock; the local Aboriginal tribes discourage people from climbing it as it's a sacred site to them, but plenty of people still do the climb. We decided not to partly out of respect for the locals, and partly because it's bloody steep and we weren't sure that we were feeling that energetic! The base walk was enough exercise for the first day! ... read more