Xavier and his new friend

Day 8 - The Red Centre - Alice Springs

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May 26th 2017
Hello again, today is the first day in Alice Springs. We woke up to a beautiful sunny morning and had a lazy start. By 9.30am we had finished breakfast and headed off to our first touristy destination. We visited the Alice Springs Desert Park. This is an Australian native zoo. We arrived at about 10.30am and had time to see the dingo enclosure (mind you the dingos did not want to see us). At 11am ... 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