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Yulara Slideshow
Yulara
Travel Blogs from Yulara, Australia
The Rock
We were met and taken by our tour guide driver, Peter, with 15 others (all of which were 20 - 25 years younger than us!!!) from Alice to Kings Creek on the first day to a campsite near to Kings Canyon. We opted for a small tent to view the stars from, ...
Uluru Park
Next morning was up at the crack of dawn to make it to Uluru National Park in time to do some walks before the heat of the day. First we went to Kata Tjunta which is in the same park about 30km away from Ayers Rock. Kata Tjunta means "many ...
The Rock
... rock is not actually the biggest single rock in the world - it is the second biggest. The largest is Mt Augusta in Western Australia. We visited the cultural centre at Uluru too - lots of stories about the Rock down through the years, and "dreamtime" ...
The Outback!
... group was 13 people (14 including the guide) and we were from 8 different countries! How cool is that!? We represented: Australia (the guides), USA, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Columbia, Japan, and Switzerland! Our guide for the first few days was a ...
The Red Centre
... as the middle of Oz used to have an inland sea, so there are fish fossils etc in the soft sandstone. We then headed over to Yulara, which is the resort for Uluru national park and dumped our things before going to "The Olgas", which was a big cluster of ...
Uluru, Australia
Perth to a minuscule landing strip in the scorching oasis of Yulara! Great view of the forementioned 'mound' on approach in plane! Bizarrely, as the Indigenous people have been 'given back' the area and Ayres Rock (Uluru) as it is highly sacred, the ...
The good, the bad and the ugly
... in turn leased it back to Parks Australia on a 99 year lease. The park is now jointly managed by Parks Australia and the Anangu people. In the 1970s I remember very little visitor control. We were completely unaware that climbing the rock ...
Uluru/Olgas
YULARA RESORT ULURU/OLGA'S (19-21 August 2006) When you think of remote destinations such as Uluru, do you think they have several resorts, restaurants, eateries, kiosk, hairdressers, supermarket, service station, mechanic, caravan resort, ...
An unforgettable experience
The only way to describe today is as unforgettable. We were once again out of bed early and up with the night sky still around us, this time ready to catch the first of a two-part day tour – starting with watching the sun rise and light up Uluru. ...
Oct 8, 05 (Saturday)
We departed at 5:15 to see sunrise at Ayers Rock. It was so cold and I realized after we took off that we should have worn our windbreakers. It was such a change in temperature from the day to night. It must have been in 50 F. The rock changed the color ...
Australia's Red Centre
... be closed off to everyone so, while it now belongs to the Anangnu again, they had to immediately lease it to Environment Australia (the federal govt'snational park's body) for 99 years who now administer it in conjuction with the traditional owners - ...
Oct 8, 05 (Saturday)--Still Continued
Carl, our driver, dropped us off at the Resort Shopping area. I just looked around and took a shuttle bus to our place and we all boarded again to Mt. Olga that has 36 domes and much larger than Ayers Rock. It is also called Pudding ...
Rock Tour
Off I go on my 3 day/2 night tour to Uluru, Kings Canyon and Olga tour - it started out well as I got on well with everyone in the 'family', which is a good mix of 5 Brits, 1 French, 3 Italians, 2 German, 2 Swiss, 1 Japanese and 2 Fins. We visited Kings ...
Oct 8, 05 (Saturday)--Continued
We went back to see if the rock was open. Students were so excited to see that climbers were already climbing. Everybody except a few girls decided not to climb. It is a dangerous climb and very steep and slippery. Marvin and 4 girls walked around the ...
Wayoutback - Uluru and Olgas
Day 2 (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) After watching the sunrise over Uluru and Kata Tjuta from a lookout close to our campsite, it's breakfast and off to Kata Tjuta for a 7km hike through the magnificent "Valley of the Winds". After a leisurely lunch and a ...
Not so desolate in the desert
... much out here, considering we’re in the middle of one of the most inhabitable, barren, harsh landscapes in the whole of Australia. Sure, we’re at a resort, but I wasn’t expecting all the comforts we were greeted with: post office, bank, ...
Safari in Style - Tag 1
... und einer Rinderzucht. Ansonsten fuhren wir stundenlang durch Wüstengebiet, Outback pur. Kata Tjuta Nach Ankunft in der nähe von Yulara haben wir unser Camp bezogen und waren sehr überrascht, das ist schon eher Nobel-Camping mit Zelthütte, Bett und ...
At the centre of spirituality
On Thursday we intended to get up and see the sunrise at Uluru. Getting up was not the issue, since we had been waking up at sunrise for 3 days now. But we could not sleep anywhere close to Uluru without paying, so we had to drive about 40 ...
To climb or not to climb
... it's leaves as they fall. We saw a few signs of wildlife. We passed a camel farm, apparently, although not native to Australia, there are now so many ferral in the centre of Austalia that they actually export them to the Far East! They were originally ...
Uluru
Our first view of Uluru was certainly spellbinding as we jostled for the first glimpse of the 'big rock' as the plane landed at Ayers Rock airport. The surrounding area to the horizon stretches into a nothingness of red ...