Alice Springs

A Town Like Alice

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October 27th 2008
A Town Like Alice- Day 25 October 26, 2008 We haven’t seen that movie or read the book, “A Town Like Alice” but now that we’ve 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 the train for hou ... 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