Uluru

Uluru

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June 28th 2006
With a blow on my Digeridoo - here we are at Ayres' rock - or Uluru in the local tongue. Apparently they don't use the Digeridoo in the North - but the rock is pretty amazing! It's a very weird (and a very Red) place. They got orgainised with tourism in 1984 - flattened the old hotels and built a new airport and resort outside the national park. As a result - it's nice, but expensive. T ... 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