The Red Center

Day 7 Alice Springs

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December 17th 2012
Ok I really didn't mean to sleep till gone 11 but I did. Fortunately last night the hotel left me a birthday card and a big plate of fruit. Our breakfast! We booked an afternoon tour and we got a taxi into town to have a walkabout before getting the bus. The town is very small and very poor. We bought a couple of things of Aboriginal design and a thimble, and of course the book "A Town like ... 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