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Alice Springs Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Alice Springs, Australia
A bit o' Didge
This is a top pick! Alice Springs comes as a bit of a shock after so many miles of nothing. It's the town closest to the centre of Australia and is actually surprisingly large and civilised looking. Lots of pretty suburbs to drive through and a town centre that makes you ...
Melanka Backpackers is a HOLE !
This is a top pick! ... . 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 ...
Frank, The Tempermental Camel
This is a top pick! ... legs kneel, too. I scrambled off quickly, gave Frank a tentative pat on the nose, and backed quickly away. Suddenly the adventures of that girl who rode the three camels all the way from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean become even more ...
One last BLAST !!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Full circle
This is a top pick! ... 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 Red Centre
This is a top pick! ... for the road trip ahead. Although we'd booked a regular car and prepared ourselves for travelling the long paved highway from Alice to Uluru, Hertz immediately offered us a free upgrade to a 4x4 that would allow us to take the shorter rougher route ...
Alice Springs
This is a top pick! 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 ...
My favorite town in Australia! Seriously!
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... large perenti, which is a large reptile (upto a couple of metres long). On this occassion Steve was handling the Perenti belonging to Alice Springs Reptile Centre. They advised him not to handle the Perenti as they have a bit of a bite. Steve did not take ...
A Town Called Alice
This is a top pick! ... suggest that Canada has sorted out our own First Nations challenge, but there is something desperately wrong with the current situation in Australia if Alice Springs is any example to go by. One can only hope that the Aussie sense of fair play, and the ...
Why I became a pilot...
This is a top pick! ... 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 - ...
Alice Spings - Day 210
This is a top pick! 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 Springs
This is a top pick! 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, Alice, Where the flip is Alice!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Days 234-236
This is a top pick! ... to be people who haven't been themselves. Like most things in life you have to see for yourself. We had a long drive back to Alice Springs, punctuated by a camel ride that looked fun. I didn't bother with that - I was happy petting the dingo that was ...
The Legendary Ghan and the Amazing Rock
This is a top pick! ... more wild 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 ...
Little Alice
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Recharing the batteries
This is a top pick! ... diet?). 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 ...
The Start Of Our Outback Adventure
This is a top pick! Good 'ay, So from Adelaide we got our flight to Alice Springs, The Red Centre. Here we would base ourselves for the next 4 days until we started our trip to Uluru (Ayers Rock) and other famous Outback sights. What we did notice as soon as we arrived ...
Party Shenanigans in The Alice
This is a top pick! ... bra. Despite (or perhaps because of) this intimidating effort, the other pair won. Our table was heartbroken at my undeserved loss, but we went right back to the partying nonetheless. crazy party night in Alice Springs as a final throwdown to the ...
Shaken ... and stirred......
This is a top pick! ... in need of beer grateful to be across safely but sorry to leave desert, Spend two days driving 'Old Andado Track' Arrive Alice Springs... Nitty Gritty: Larry was stocked up with 190L of Diesel (Two tanks Two Jerrys) and 100L of Water the previous day ...
Darwin to Alice Springs
This is a top pick! ... a fairly big snake too, around two metres long. We sat back and relaxed for the rest of the day, as we cruised down to Alice Springs. This is the Outback's largest settlement, with a shocking 25,000 people. Time to stock up in the Supermarket, jump on ...
Australia - Alice Springs (via Devils Marbles)
This is a top pick! ... of wind (PICS). Leaving the Devils Marbles we drove across the Tropic of Capricorn (PIC) and then completed the journey to Alice Springs (PIC), arriving in the Red Centre's most famous town at mid-afternoon. After driving around the town we visited ...
Day 246-252: Alice Springs/Darwin
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Rock
This is a top pick! ... any 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 ...
Idolising The Rock Stars
This is a top pick! ... still a once-in-a-lifetime sight to behold and well worth travelling every kilometre to get there. On our way back to Alice Springs we took a little(?) diversion (200 miles) to Watarrka National Park for a quick walk through Kings Canyon's sandstone ...
Uluru - acres rock to me and you!
This is a top pick! ... the heat, i couldn't believe how hot it was considering the time of day - factor 8 qas definately required for the walk into Alice Springs town centre at this time of day. Sarah and i made our decision to head to the Northern Terratory when we were in ...
Hot and dusty - most of the time...
This is a top pick! ... seat 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 ...