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Yulara Slideshow
Yulara
Travel Blogs from Yulara, Australia
Day 20: Ayers Rock & Olgas
Got up for sunrise at Ayers Rock this morning however I was a bit disappointed; it wasn't as dramatic as sunset which I personally thought was better. I undertook the 9.4km walk around the 'rock' and it was good to get some form of exercise in as well. ...
Time for a Rest
We are chilling out in our hotel room again. In a few hours we'll be getting ready for the Sounds of Silence dinner. Thought I would recap so I have less to write about later. Not much really to tell, though! We have been pretty lazy. We got up around 8 ...
That's one big rock bien sur
Day 124 – 24 January 2011 Today would be the day that we would reach the big rock and all our prayers be answered by its mystical powers... or so I wished. After attempting a toasty night's sleep and after saying goodbye to the swimming pool, our ...
uluru, kata tjuta
This is a real australian must-see. I was afraid it would be a tourist resort with all these tourist problems, but this is really more. Uluru is beautiful, there is really something in the air. The rock is amazing, amazing. The same is true for the near ...
Mala Walk and Yulara "resort"
This morning we got up early and got to the rock to the spot where they climb from by 8am so that we could do the Ranger Guided Mala Walk. We got there at 7.50 and there was a ranger closing the climb as there had been 2 drops of rain (even ...
The Red Centre
... hours long and, besides how red the ground was, I was also struck by the amount of vegetation. The center of Australia is a desert so I was expecting little to no vegetation. However, there are quite a few different plants that have adapted ...
what an awesome God
Well....what a start to the day today with a bowl of porridge under my belt we headed out to Uluru to see the famous rock. I have always thought of going here has as "oh well it's just a rock" BUT when you drive around that corner and see it ...
This is no Devils Marble, this is a Very Big Rock
We have spent the last two days in Kings Canyon which in my opinion is definately in my top 5 places I have visited this holiday. The first day we arrived we took the kids down to the canyon and did a relatively easy walk to a lookout of Kings ...
traveling
... There was even an O.P.P. badge on the wall. Got our first view of the Flinders Range, now that we are in South Australia, almost a circle of golden brown hills. People tried ranching here in the mid 1800's but life was pretty tough. Met an ...
disrespect
... those on the trip have English as a second language and his frustrations are expressed openly. The tour i was with was Adventure Tours Australia - and sadly they seem to have the monopoly for tours in this area. Anyway - the three days remained tense. I ...
Outback Bound
Day 110 At 7am my friend Priyanka and I grabbed a cab to the airport to start our adventure to the heart of Australia; the outback!! More specifically, to Ayers rock or as it's known to the Aboriginals; Uluru. We met up with our friend from Bondi; Jess ...
John Butcher und sein 1000 PS - Monster
In aller Frühe stehen Mae und Willi wieder am Trailbeginn. Die beiden erkunden die ersten 1,5 km vom Gilles-Track. In der frühen Morgensonne präsentieren sich ihnen die markanten Felsdome besonders eindrucksvoll. Beide sind der Meinung, dass sich ...
Ayers Rock & The Olgas
... was plenty for us and so to find a bar which we had been told about by another traveler...Bojangles is a wild west meets outback Australia themed pub in Todd Street. You swing open the saloon style doors to be greeted by boots nailed to the ceiling, ...
Kata Tjuta; Uluru what a spiritual place
... mail. At present it is school holidays, Grey Nomads (well the sensible ones) have headed north. Kiddies everywhere, caravan park in Yulara is full and only overflow camping is available. At our freebie there are no loos yet there are folk in all manner ...
Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock
Stayed in the beautiful Kings Canyon and went on an amazing walk up Ayers ...
3 Tage Outback
Nachdem ich Perth hinter mir gelassen hatte, ging es ins Red Centre. Beim spiralförmigen Landeanflug konnte man besonders gut die weiten des Outbacks begutachten. Kaum war ich aus dem Flugzeug raus, war ich im Sommer angekommen. Bei 30°C und der ...
Ayers Rock - the rock of many moods
Well, the thing that will stand out most about my time at Ayers Rock was that it was so DAM COLD and WET!!!!! We arrived, sorted out a rental car for the following day and wandered around the resort and watched sunset from the lookout... then it ...
Camping in the Outback
After a reasonable sleep in our rather noisy hostel we were up bright and early (again!) our pick up was at 6am so still rubbing the sleep from our eyes we climbed onto the minibus to find 14 other people, all looking just as tired! Our guide, Ash (an ...
Ayers Rock
... centre is still the same – very good. Several new accommodations have been built. The name has reverted from Yulara to Ayers Rock Resort, and the caravan park is now managed privately. The prices are pretty much as they were 8 ...
Awsome
Well we made it to the famous rock. What an awsome sight . Arrived here this morning set up camp explored the resort what a place its so big you get lost just trying to find your way round . The weather is perfect 21 deg and not even cold to night. We ...
Bendita lluvia!!!
Una noche mas, una manana mas sobre el rojo absoluto, con nuestra guardiana amiga Uluru descansando a nuestro lado. Del otro el fueguito, tambien companero de emociones. El mate listo para ser preparado por la manana. Es una noche especial. En el cielo ...
arrive at ayers rock
Arrived Ayers Rock there was a storm coming in and our Sounds of silence dinner was canceled so we arranged to get up at 4.00am to see the sun rise over Ayers rock but again because of the storm (that did not really develop) it was not that good but ...
Can things get worse?
... now hooked on books, leaving their ipods untouched for days at a time. Just so you know, we have dubbed our holiday the 'Greening Australia Tour' because we feel like we are taking rain to every town we go through. We've also heard that we left lots ...
Day 10
... factory – the sheer raw beauty and eerie magic of Uluru and Kata Tjuta makes up for it!!! You can easily understand why it is such a spirituel place for the aborigines. Goodnight Australia…..and big ancient rocks! Road kills: ...
Ayres Rock Arrival (Yulura)
... ;t even have to lift my head off the pillow to gaze upon the rock considered by some to be the spiritual center of Australia! (Does America have a spiritual center? Would it be Kansas City?) I decided against the lengthy, expensive Sounds of ...
Uluru
Uluru, Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th October We flew to Ayers Rock, the local airport for Uluru and as we came in to land we got our first views of the rock. We were staying at the Ayers Rock Resort which only exists because of that large, iconic lump of ...