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My week in the hot hot outback

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January 8th 2009
HOT is the best word to describe my last 5 days. I started with two full days of driving in a tour bus of 24 people from Adelaide to Alice Springs. I rode as co-pilot with our aussie guide Trevor, who had recently just finished working for two years in the mines in the middle of the aus outback. He had SO many stories that I rarely slept though the drive. We stopped the first night in Coober Pedy, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

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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