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Alice Springs Slideshow
Alice Springs
Travel Blogs from Alice Springs, Australia
Alice Springs
... 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 ...
Darwin to Alice
... 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 ...
Ayers Rock
... we didn't have a 4x4 car. We did however plan the long drive to Ayers Rock in the morning (we were talk between a 4 and 5 hour drive from Alice Springs) and knew we were in for a long day. The day went wel and we made good time, it really is a crazy thing ...
Your Mother and the Standley Chasm
We had made plans with Craig and his friends to check out the Standley Chasm, which we had missed on our previous journey through the West Macdonnells, so Erica was thrilled to get out and do something active. Despite some of us being a little groggy ...
Alice Springs to Uluru (Ayers Rock)
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 ...
Big Rocks and Beanies Beneath the Stars: Oz Part 1
... 's history with Aboriginal Culture. After some exploring we found ourselves inexplicably drawn to the "Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2010" after being assured when confirming our tour for the following day that a ...
Raising the steaks
... I have had to wear plasters in order to stop the fingers from bending and ripping open the cuts further. Plus, the water in Alice Springs has a high calcium content, which further dries the skin. Shower after work? Even drier! My hands are starting to ...
all things bright and beautiful
... 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
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 ...
'Can you feel the legend of the Ghan,,,'
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
... 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
... 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)
... (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 ...
Alice Springs...actually the middle of no where...
... to go to sleep with the birds. Woke up early this morning and cleaned the car...it seriously needed it. Then we headed off to Alice Springs Desert Park. Its pretty much their zoo but because its a desert its not really a zoo at all. I think we saw ...
A town called Alice...........ooaoo yeh-a
Whilst planning our trip around Australia we had promised to treat ourselves once we reached Alice Springs. We figured we would have earnt a few nights in a nice hotel with a balcony, fluffy robes, air con and a pool as we would be covered in red dust and ...
A Town Like Alice
... proudest moment but hey, next stop was a Ellery Creek Big Hole, I'd been there before and it's wicked. It's the closest thing Alice Springs has to a beach, its just a short drive from town and has all kinds of exciting things such as water and sand and ...
Adelaide to Alice Springs via Uluru (Ayre's Rock)
Wow guys, it was totally worth the trip out to the big red rock! I jumped on a tour from Adelaide up to Alice Springs via Ulluru. It was a nice group of us, 18 in total alot of other gappy year backpackers like me from various countries. bah will ...
Back to Civilisation - well almost...
... 25 million square kilometres!) from the centre of Australia. While the operations element of the RFDS now operates from the Alice Springs airport, the original dispatch and monitoring centre operated in the building up until 2008 – and on some ...
Alice Springs
We returned to Alice Springs from our Red Centre tour and all enjoyed a long desired shower. We ended up with our 2 crazy Canadian friends from Halifax, Amy and Angela, and Karl, from Ireland. We all headed down to the bar to meet up with our guide, ...
Alice Springs, Uluru, the Olgas and Kings Canyon
... Harry going missing still raw for both me and Kim it was an emotional flight, but we arrived safe and sound at the HOT alice springs airport. After getting our bags, and jumping on the shuttle bus, we got to our hostel still in good time ...
Back to Alice!
So we went back to Alice Springs to get the car fixed. We stayed at the Heckathorns for 2 days. When we went to pick up the car the mechanic said the car starter motor didn't come and had to wait another 2 days. To find out what we did in those two days ...
More of the Break and Beyond
... touring team. He was the only NT rep and at 17, Brett expects that he will get picked up in the next draft. Alice Springs is a complex and interesting place. Most houses have high fences all around. Flower gardens are so unusual they warrant a photo!. ...
Sapphire Waters of Esperance to The Big Red Centre
... for swimming. Our last stop was Ormiston Gorge where the gorge curls around the enclosed Ormiston Pound. We made our way to Alice Springs and spent 2 nights here. Alice Springs is a very friendly, outback town with 20% Aboriginal population. We spoke to ...
Alice Springs Stopover
... pretty. We checked out the Historic Telegraph Station, one of the repeater stations in the Overland Telegraph Line, the original "Alice Springs", and wandered the township and checked out the shops. I certainly wouldn’t want to be out ...
Heat, rocks and a plague upon this town
... - forget it. It was a four thirty am start from Hobart to Melbourne, and then three hours on a plane to get us to Alice Springs. The wave of heat hit us as we stepped off the plane, causing untold wardrobe malfunctions for the American tourists who'd ...
Alice Springs
... . There are friendly waves to the fellow road users you pass, as they are so few and far between. Alice Springs suddenly appears alongside the Stuart Highway with a handful of hotels and stacks of Aboriginal Art shops. Sadly, the ...
Flipped Off By a Wallabee
... level had reached their limit by the time we rolled into Alice Springs. That is how long the journey from Darwin to Alice Springs took aboard The Ghan and that includes 4 hours in Katherine and then five hours in the middle of the night when ...