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Uluru

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February 3rd 2017
Today we traveled by bus 550 km on our way from Alice Springs to Uluru. We passed endless Eucalyptus and Acacias which was a grassland desert, not the barren land I expected. Along the way, we experienced: Stuart’s Well, a rest stop which included a camel farm and my chance to ride one as my father did while in Egypt in WWII; Isolated Billabongs, water holes in the middle of the desert ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru

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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