Alice S, Australia Travel Blogs

Melanka Backpackers is a HOLE !
Jul 7, 2007 (11 photos)

... . I was impressed with the bush dunny which didn't stink.   Back on the squishy minibus for a 5 hour drive to Alice Springs with a short lunch stop at the Red Sands Café. We arrived in Alice early afternoon and checked into the Melanka Backpackers. ...

Frank, The Tempermental Camel
Oct 7, 2005 (1 photos)

... (if bum-crushing) step: riding a camel! So I signed up for an hour-long ride in the dry Todd River bed outside of Alice at sunset. Camels are not horses. Nor are they llamas. In fact, camels are at least three feet taller than the biggest horse I've ...

One last BLAST !!
Jul 13, 2007 (12 photos)

Woke at 4.30am and dressed in the warmest clothes possible. The bus that was supposed to pick us up at 5am turned up at 5.30 so we could have had an extra half hour of sleep. We drove out of town for about 30kms to meet the other bus carrying the balloon. ...

Why I became a pilot...
Jul 14, 2007 (1 photos)

... did not want to return and work as a travel agent, just to be stuck behind another desk. As I was sitting in Todd Park, Alice Springs contemplating what to do, a helicopter flew overhead. I decided then and there that that was what I wanted to do - become ...

Full circle
Jul 12, 2007 (18 photos)

... the bumpiest 4WD track I have ever known brought us to the stunningly beautiful Palm Valley. It is the only place in Australia where these particular cabbage palms grow. We walked up the valley over the ridge then back along the valley floor. Clark ...

The Legendary Ghan and the Amazing Rock
Feb 16, 2004 (14 photos)

... camels in the outback than anywhere else in the world, and they now export them to the Middle East. We arrived in Alice Springs nearly 23 hours after we were due to leave Adelaide, about 3 1/2 hours late. Thankfully though the seats were pretty ...

Alice Springs
Feb 1, 2006 (3 photos)

We left a beautiful day in Cairns to head to Australian's Famous Outback and Ayers Rock and the main arrival point is Alice Springs. Alice Springs is the largest town in the Northern Territory, and as we drove through it we realized that there just wasn't ...

Alice Springs
May 27, 2007 (1 photos)

Alex: I don't think landing in Alice Springs at 12 pm on a Sunday gave us the opportunity to see Alice at her best as everything was shut or shutting and the town was pretty dead. About all we managed to do was buy the obligatory boomerang, feed ourselves ...

Steve Gumerungi Hodder- special guest this episode
Apr 5, 2008 (45 photos)

... personal photos with my readers. All photoes in this Entry are from his trip to Aurukun (Western Cape York, Queensland, Australia) last April-May where Steve was part of a group of people that ran media education program in the Koolkan ...

My favorite town in Australia! Seriously!
Mar 28, 2008 (9 photos)

A dusty town in the Midle of the Outback, Alice Springs is my favorite Australian city, for I met tones of cool people here... *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! Support my appeal ...

Alice and a Camel
Aug 27, 2004 (8 photos)

... them and it was good to catch up with them again, I had not seen them for 7 or 8 months as they travelled around Australia in their Coaster/Camper van. In the afternoon, I had decided to seek out some of the local tourist attractions. The first being ...

Little Alice
Nov 28, 2006 (4 photos)

... of character which is not really surprising given its low population being the only place with much of anything in the centre of Australia. Making up a good number of those that do live here though are the native Aboriginals many of whom sadly seem to be ...

Middle of Nowhere
Nov 27, 2006 (6 photos)

... we also picked up an unwanted topping on most people's sarnies with a mini sand storm blowing in around us. Finally arriving in Alice Springs and back in civilization I checked into Annie's Place hostel where we all joined up later on for one last meal ...

Aren't deserts supposed to be dry?
May 2, 2004 (5 photos)

... Track (the latter was officially closed due to flooding, but we snuck through)and eventually reached Newman in Western Australia. Phew! Nitty Gritty: Before leaving Alice we did a few things that we hadn't had the chance to do on our last visit, the ...

Alice Springs
Feb 16, 2009 (5 photos)

We were minging after the bus ride from Adelaide to Alice Springs and it was roasting in Alice when we got in. Rang the Alice Lodge where we had booked a room and we were collected by the guy running the Hostel who is from Limerick ...

Alice Spings - Day 210
Sep 18, 2008 (2 photos)

Today has been pretty uneventful, no amazing sights to report on. It was a long drive to Alice Springs this morning which took from sunrise to the early afternoon to complete. Beginning to get a little pissed off now with all the driving, been having some ...

Alice, Alice, Where the flip is Alice!
Feb 16, 2004 (7 photos)

... David and Rachel got a chalet. Simon, Mum and I got acquainted with Vernon. We sorted out our stuff and headed into Alice Springs for a look around. What a place! This was our first encounter with Aborigines and unfortunately wasn't the best. They were all ...

Days 234-236
May 10, 2007 (37 photos)

... handles, gear stick and indicators. That reminds me... The other day I was listening to a classic Australian song called "This is Australia". In it the lyrics go "Out on the patio we sit. And the humidity we breathe. We watch the lightning crack over ...

The Rock
Dec 1, 2006

... decision making although most of us had made up our minds not to climb before we arrived anyway. On the way back to Alice Springs we stopped for a short break during which a road train pulled up beside us which is pretty much like your everyday ordinary ...

Recharing the batteries
Jul 8, 2007 (26 photos)

... ?).   We would have liked to hire a scooter to explore the town for the day but there is no scooter hire in Alice Springs - none at all!! Reduced to using our legs, we wandered around some more shops, spent an hour in an internet café doing emails, ...

Party Shenanigans in The Alice
Oct 7, 2005

Knowing that my time in Australia was coming to an end, and that my few days in Sydney would be quiet and errand-filled, I chose the first night in Alice Springs as my final goodbye to the over-the-top pleasures of the backpacker life. Those among the bus ...

Shaken ... and stirred......
Apr 28, 2004 (13 photos)

... attempt them and learning about tyre pressures. We finally made it to Poepples Corner which is the point where Queensland, South Australia & Northern Territory meet, although they didn't have GPS' when it was marked and G spent some time finding the exact ...

Darwin to Alice Springs
Dec 7, 2005 (12 photos)

... in the sun between two of the marbles. We kept a safe distance whilst taking a photo, just in case it was one of Australia's many venomous varieties. It was a fairly big snake too, around two metres long. We sat back and relaxed for the rest of the day ...

Australia - Alice Springs (via Devils Marbles)
May 11, 2006 (30 photos)

... aborigine. Our favourite bit had to be the nocturnal house, which featured a lot of the cutest and shyest animals that Australia has to offer (PICS), including a dopey Echidna who seemed to spend his entire time plodding around his pen aimlessly looking ...

Stranded in Alice
Apr 8, 2006 (7 photos)

... the Frenchies were crazy and danced the night away until 5am. They only arrived today but have already secured a job and will be staying in Alice for 2 months! It's alright for a few days but I would go stir crazy staying in such a small town for longer.

Day 246-252: Alice Springs/Darwin
May 22, 2005

... into Darwin on time around half 4 and god was it hot when we stepped of the air conditioned train, low 30s, big difference from Alice. B&D were staying at The Cavenagh and said it had got a good rating on a website, as I hadn't made any arrangements I ...

Big Canyons And Dirt Tracks
Apr 6, 2006 (10 photos)

... waiting for a flat tyre. Finally got back to the sealed road with all tyres still intact and finished the remaining 100km's to Alice Springs. Drove to the hostel we had chosen, Toddy's, and it was evident that something was wrong with the car. When we ...

Hot and dusty - most of the time...
Jul 7, 2005 (4 photos)

... to see the border marker between SA and NT fly by. This train travel is really growing on me! Almost dead centre of Australia now. It was surprising to see the extent of plant life abounding in the martian red soil and undulating hills for miles in ...

Uluru - acres rock to me and you!
Dec 19, 2004 (10 photos)

... and developed, they have been on the receiving end of some of the worst racist treatment i've ever heard of. Currently in Australia, there aren't many pure blood Aborigionals left in. Two joined us on our tour and i throughly enjoyed listening to them ...

Alice Springs
May 30, 1982

Mum and Dad