Uluru at sunset

Alice Springs and the amazing Uluru tour!

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March 3rd 2011
This has to be one of the highlights of my trip! I booked on the Rock Tour, which was a 3 day / 2 night camping tour of Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga) and Kings Canyon (Australia's answer to the Grand Canyon). Absolutely amazing! The group of people I was with were lovely and really made the trip. We all got on really well and our tour leader was great fun too. It was his birthday on ... 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