Uluru

Uluru - Alice Springs

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October 25th 2008
The early morning call that I had booked hand me springing out of bed at 04:00. This was they day that I had been waiting for since I booked the trip. I checked out of the hotel at 04:50 and waited in the darkness with my fellow passengers for the bus to arrive. We were picked up at 05:00 and headed for 40 minutes towards Uluru (Ayres Rock) as the bus drove on the rock loomed in the distance, i ... 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