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Alice Springs Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Alice Springs, Australia
Now for the real Australia
To me the experiences I had here in Alice Springs were the true Australia! I only came here for 4 nights as it was part of an organized trip for backpackers to travel the outback and visit Ayres Rock, Kings Canyon and The Olgas. The whole trip in ...
Only the enlightened go way outback!
... see kangaroos and emus, old cars that had broken down and been left behund and skeletons from dead animals. We arrived in Alice Springs early afternoon, found a hostel and did the last shopping for the next days in the outback. Even though Alice Springs ...
One night in Alice
OUR BACK IN ALICE SPRINGS BLOG We had a really good nights sleep on the train, mainly thanks to our seat arrangement and the fact that somebody turned down the air conditioning or turned it up! It was certainly a lot warmer last night. Awake at about ...
The Red Centre to Darwin
... move on again. With a flight of two and half hours and a 1/2 hour time difference I arrived in Alice Springs, slap bang in the middle of Australia with nothing around for miles. I was lucky enough to get an emergency exit seat with super leg room and ...
Life in Alice Springs
Tirsdag. Efter Devils Marbles havde vi god tid til at koere de 500 km til Alice Springs. Vi slog os ned i Alice paa et godt hostel - Toddies. Det vrimler med aboriginals her. Der var en del i Cairns, men her er de overalt. Stadig er de et noget ...
Adventures in the Outback: Part I
... i was settled in my room i walked the 10 minutes to town and poked my head around. Alice Springs is known as the Aboriginal Art Capital of Australia and everywhere you go there are many aboriginals that appear to be just "hanging around," and ...
My Canyon Climb
March 10, 2005 Today we left Ayers Rock and drove to Kings Canyon. I decided that I was going to do the nice 6km uphill hike. Once we all got up to the top of the Canyon, you were able to see a fantastic view as well as a place called the Garden of ...
Week 12 - A long ride on The Ghan
... time to begin my adventure 'up the middle'. This epic train journey began at 12.20pm on Sunday and took a whole 25 hours to reach Alice Springs; that's barely half way up! At $300 a ticket (!) I was restricted to the (rather more budget) 'Red Coach' with ...
Alice Springs (Bella)
... places? Anyway, sorry for my ranting on about what's right and wrong, just letting off steam. The most depressing thing about Alice Springs is how unbelievably racist the most white people seem to be towards the Aborigines. Nobody seems to see it or ...
Rocky sunsets
Blog by Fiona Thursday After our dawn camel ride we packed up and left Uluru for the 4 hour plus trip to Rainbow Valley. We had a short break at Mt Ebenezer for refreshments and then hit the Stuart Hwy heading north- destination Rainbow Valley ...
the outback
... the Red Centre. Upon close inspection it looked conspicuously like a certain red planet in our solar system. And the people of Alice Springs, well they could certainly be mistaken for Martians for no rational earthling would ever choose to live in such a ...
A town called Alice
... . For as far as the eye could see it was desert, no towns and just one road that links the north to central Australia. Alice Springs is a small town literally miles and miles from anywhere. The population is made up of Aborigines and lots of other ...
Who the Chuff is Alice?
... of course more kangaroos. After lunch we got dropped off at the old telegraph station where the oldest building in central Australia is and where Alice Springs started. After a slight mishap with the bus (we missed it but it came back) we ...
Big Things #26
The Big Man is at the top of a hill in Aileron, Northern Territory. Fuck only knows how I missed this one on the way down, its not like he's the diminutive type is ...
Offroading through the Outback
... driving. After a quick lunch, we decided to stop into the Tourist Information Center for advice before spending the day exploring Alice Springs. On the recently formed agenda were visits to the Flying Doctors Hospital (Philip grew up with the TV show; I ...
Ayers Rock
I was determined to make it to Ayers Rock and now I have! Only took us 5 days of driving and about 3500kms! However, we weren't prepared for the freezing cold and stupidly decided to sleep in the van rather than fork out for a ...
Excitement
Well- if we thought nothing happens here we were wrong! Just serving dinner last night when a blackout struck! - This shouldn't happen as the gas generator should cut in automatically. No lights we could live with, but no air con ..... I don't ...
Oct 4, 05 (Tuesday)--Still Continued
... at a time, so once again you have to open another entry. After a wonderful buffet dinner we went to a show in the downtown Alice Springs. Here we saw many Aboriginis, a few begged for money. It is sad to see how these native people turned out like ...
yet another race to catch up!
right so where are we? well, currently we're back in alice springs after a hectic week, leaving coober pedy in south australia, only to break down on the stuart highway and have to get towed into the northern territories, followed by a couple of days ...
A long long way to see a rock (Apr 16 - 19)
(BUT TOTALLY WORTH IT!) 16th April, 2007 - This is Australia. Annie's hostel, post office, cinema, outside mall, early early night 17th April, 2007 - 4:30 am, time to start the tour.... Introductions on the Mic, DJing, Kings Canyon, Uluru ...
Australia - What we've been up to - PART 1
... ;quite beautiful. They have enormous and wonderful parks to wander through, though we were quickly introduced to some of Australia's famed creatures. There are enormous black spiders everywhere, the size of the palm of my hand. It seems ...
Alice Springs
Die Busfahrt nach Alice Springs hat 20 Stunden gedauert, am Anfang sassen wir zu viert in einem Riesenbus und ueber Nacht haben wir ein Kaenguru ueberfahren- wir haben das allerdings nur am naeschten Tag aufgrund der gesplitterten Windschutzscheibe ...
Spiewajacy pies
Pozwolilismy sobie na spokojne sniadanie rano- nie trzeba bylo pedzic poniewaz mielismy zarezerwowany kemping w Alice Springs. Rano na sasiednim drzewie spotkalismy jastrzebia przygladajacego nam sie z ciekawoscia, niestety bylismy juz po sniadanku wiec ...
On the move north for warmer weather
... nights. We were looking forward to wearing shorts again. It was minus 4 again this morning. These have been the coldest mornings Alice Springs have seen for in the past decade. Driving through "Three ways" where the road turn to Queensland or heads North ...
Sounds of Starlight
We left Ayers today and arrived back at Alice. We went and watch the show 'Sounds of Starlight'. It was awesome... the show is excellent. The main guy 'Andrew' plays the didg (well he actually plays loads of different didg's - all shapes and ...
Alice Springs
Czech - Z Kathrin jsme meli dlouho cestu -1200km ,do mestecka uprostred pouste jmenem Alice Springs. Zde jsme pobyli tyden, jelikoz jsme na par dnu zustali u nasich znamych Mark a Erin, ktery nam umoznili si konecne odpocinout po dlouhem rizeni.Navsteva ...
Desert Storm - the Sequel
Alice Springs has an average annual rainfall of 280mm. The variation from one year to another can be very large, but we have had more than 180mm since we arrived and 120 of that in the last week and it is still raining. This rainband that we are sharing ...