Alice Springs, Australia Travel Blogs

Alice Springs
Oct 19, 2006 (7 photos)

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 ...

Alice Springs
May 7, 2006 (9 photos)

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Red Centre
Jul 7, 2005

... . We played it the whole time we were there. It was very cold at night & we were looking forward to some warmer weather. On to Alice springs & yes it was warm! But not for long. We awoke to rain this morning & the temp has not gone over 9c all day!! Is it ...

Alice Springs
Apr 19, 2006

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Alice Springs
May 16, 2008 (57 photos)

... cafe to support the cause we were off to Stanley Chasm and Simpson's Gap.  Both are landmarks found outside of Alice springs which are defining landmarks of the area and important to both native and Australian inhabitants.  The views in the Gap ...

red heat
Jan 13, 2006 (13 photos)

... fett wie in Cape Tribulation. Sonnenaufgang im Outback ist gewaltig rot- tolle Farben. Das Land macht schon echt Laune muss ich sagen. Alice ist die Oase in der Wueste. Echt Grosstadt. Schaue mir hier die Flying Doctors an und die School of Air- ist ...

Larapinta Trail Alice Springs
Jul 25, 2005

... to it!! A journey along the Tanami road has it's challenges & is certainly not for the faint hearted. We set off from Alice Springs armed with enthusiasm for the adventure ahead. We stocked our van from the produce stall at the markets in AS The firdt ...

The Outback
Jun 1, 2005 (61 photos)

... view of the outback at 32,000 feet! It's all red with not a soul, road, house or town for hundreds of miles. Alice Springs was a funny place. It's probably one of the most famous places in Australia yet it's smaller than Ware (or Arlesey for you ...

Dining in Australia
Nov 13, 2009

... then go back and wait for your food and drinks to arrive.  This was the case in Perth, Fremantle, Darwin, and now Alice Springs as well.               This method is quite efficient ...

Down Undah! Part1
Jul 1, 2007 (34 photos)

... a great time just strolling around taking it all in. Monday 25th we flew to Alice Springs, right in the centre of Australia. Alice Springs has marketed itself very well as the hub for Uluru (ayers rock). Well, it is only 450km away... Alice Springs was ...

Flying to Darwin via Alice Springs we didn't know!
May 19, 2007

We didn't know it but we paid Alice Springs airport a little visit on the way to Darwin... Thanks Qantas!

Into the heat....
Jan 17, 2005

... , Phuket, Koh Phi Phi, Ko Samui, Koh Phangan and Sydney! - and have stayed in over 25 different places!! Arriving in Alice Springs - the first thing I noticed was how much sweat was dripping from my forehead into my eyebrows, down my nose and into my ...

Red Red and more Red in the Outback
Jun 17, 2007 (15 photos)

... to build one locally since the builders would cost too much out in some of the remote areas. Nothing of note in Alice Springs other than the high number of aboriginals around, they are, from what we saw mostly dispossed spirits hanging around doing ...

Into the heat
Nov 14, 2009 (5 photos)

... ;    So far the tour has been nice and interesting but now we leave and get dropped off at the Alice Springs Desert Park.  I think they should close in the afternoon because I was miserably hot and in danger of getting overheated ...

Alice Springs Desert Park!
Jul 16, 2009

... is cool as, there is a jumping pillow, 3 pools, games room, playgrounds and heaps more AWESOME stuff. We went to the Alice Springs Desert Park. It was a really interesting learning experience about the desert and desert animals. The park was a really fun ...

Has anyone seen my ute?
Nov 13, 2008 (6 photos)

Decided to explore the West McDonells, west of Alice. It's a slightly different landscape to the one you experience driving to Uluru, far more trees, rocky hills and rivers. It was still raining intermittently and we thought nothing of it. Choosing a camp ...

Did I go to another country?
Nov 11, 2005

... I was in South Africa, the aussies (Chris and Jo - there Chris I named you in another entry) told me it reminded them of Australia. I can now definetly see what they mean. I leave tomorrow for an 8 day tour down to Adelaide. We'll visit Uluru, Kings ...

Palm Valley
Jul 23, 2009

While the car was getting fixed Sue leant us there Troppy (4WD). We went to a place that our 2WD couldn't go….Plam Valley! Also because we could not connect the camper trailor the car we took swags to sleep under the star. My (Jacob) swag kept ...

The Trip - Day 8
Jul 8, 2005 (6 photos)

... the battery on our camera went dead. the photos we did get were nice enough though. it was now time to head back towards alice and we arrived ther at about 5.30pm. we all arranged to meet in the saloon bar again and have a farewell dinner and drink with ...

Tour Day 3 - Kings Canyon
Apr 21, 2007 (3 photos)

... perform for us but he wasn't available!! Me, mum and another girl on the tour were then picked up and then taken back to Alice Springs as we were only on the 3-day tour. Everyone else was doing 5-days, which included the East and West Macdonnells. Me and ...

Alice Springs
Jan 10, 2007

... for 5 bucks! We spent most of our time here in the hostel as a) it is too bloody hot to walk any distance. b) Alice Springs is, well, not that interesting.  Also travellers are advised not to wander out after dark. Next stop our Red Centre tour...

Uluru en Olgas
Dec 13, 2005 (61 photos)

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Darwin to Alice
Jul 17, 2007 (27 photos)

... I still hadn't got rid of the bladder infection I'd picked up in Darwin.  I'd been taking tablets and asked the pharmacist in Alice Springs for something to keep me going for the next three days until I got to Perth when I'd have time to see a doctor ...

Alice Springs to Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Nov 16, 2002

Arrived in Alice Springs this evening by motorcoach from Adelaide, 2 hours behind schedule after an emu collided with the bus windscreen earlier in the day!

all things bright and beautiful
Jan 9, 2008 (5 photos)

... uk it relies on public donations to survive despite being such a neccesity for everyone in central australia. next stop just across the road was the alice springs reptile centre where we get some hands on contact with snakes, skinks, lizards and goannas. ...

The Australian Outback
Apr 20, 2006 (4 photos)

Alice Springs is located in the middle of Australia, otherwise known as "The Red Centre"... Aussie have a tendency to shorten everything so the town is simply know as "The Alice".

'Can you feel the legend of the Ghan,,,'
Nov 9, 2008

Caught the 'legendary Ghan', as they call it, up to Alice Springs. Great train ride through South Australia, which is pretty much crop fields for ooh, hours, and then eventually you hit the desert terrain of Central Australia, which is pretty much small ...

Alice Springs
Sep 12, 2006 (8 photos)

... off at the Devils Marbles on the way up which are more big red rocks! We had an afternoon relaxing in the Mataranka Thermal Springs, the water was lovely and warm. Also we spent half a day canoeing in Katherine Gorge with the freshwater crocodiles which ...

Ayers Rock - Alice Springs
Oct 12, 2003

... wines (no longer used to 14.5% alcohol after all that weak beer of Asia - turns your head very quickly)it was time to move on to Alice Springs. A coach picked us up at the Hotel at 5.00am (4 out of five days we have been up before dawn, and I am not a ...

On the road again (Back to Alice Springs)
May 13, 2006 (12 photos)

... on the same standing as the queen of England) thus no petting of the royal dingo J. By this time, we were pretty close to Alice Springs, and we arranged to have dinner and drinks at the hostel's pub. We ended up being such a close group after only two ...