Outback sunset (1 of 2)

Kings Canyon and on to Alice Springs

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June 15th 2007
Ayres Rock-to-Kings Canyon-to-Alice Springs Today we left before sunrise on the tour bus with Ricky and Chris. They drove us in the pre-dawn hours for about 200 kilometers while we slept some more to Kings Canyon, a cut in the Outback plain between Ayres Rock and Alice Springs. We had breakfast at the Kings Canyon Cafe - WAY out in the middle of nowhere - where they advertised the "w ... read more

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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