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Kings Canyon Slideshow
Kings Canyon
Travel Blogs from Kings Canyon, Australia
Red rock & black stumps
... walk (steep old sides on these hills!), then back to Yulara for some shopping. No time to eat – big drive up to Kings Canyon this afternoon. Campervans all over the place!! (& more dead cows!) Another night in the Bush (about 60km south of ...
Breath-taking views from Kings Canyon
We saw our first wild dingo at the Kings Canyon resort (caravan park) where we're staying. Sparky had to stay in the van during the evening in-case it came back. Zelk, Pelle and myself did the Kings Canyon rim walk and Timmy opted for the short walk ...
#17 it's a long way for coffee
... ; and we all had a great time. 3/7/09 HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL SISTER KYLIE, WE MISS AND LOVE YOU!!!! YOU TOO RAMS!!! On leaving Kings Canyon to head back to Alice we take the Ernest Giles Road. This is our first 4WDriving since Lawn Hill, so we all ...
Aug 04, 2011
Awesome
... site. After dinner we ventured out to the campground pub to listen to some aussie bush music. Tuesday we did the 6.2 km Kings Canyon Rim walk,(3.5 hrs) which starts off with a 100metre climb straight up. The views from the top as we ...
The Rim Walk
... and if you're going to Ayres Rock or Alice Springs in the future, you should definitely set aside some time and boot leather for Kings Canyon. See a selection of photos. I took many many more, but I can't bore you with them all and also the ...
Kings Canyon
Packed up early and headed off to Kings Canyon. Arrived around midday and meet up with Glenn and Judith and family and Dave and Lyn and family. Had a swim and had a few drinks watching the sunset. Went to the pub for a concert where the kids ...
West MacDonnell Ranges
Drove out to the West MacDonnell Ranges and camped overnight on banks of Finke River. Great trip. We saw lots of gorges, waterholes, birds etc (I have become somewhat of a birdwatcher now). Went to Palm Valley (a 4WD road, and when they say that ...
Off to Kings Canyon
Left Uluru after our Sunrise trip, a bit of stocking up and another drive.... Camped at the Kings Canyon Cattle Station, a fantastic place, a real working outback cattle station with camping facilities. Lots of backpackers staying / working here, ...
Who Knew the Night Sky could be so Amazing
... in the middle of no where. Only took 1/2 hour to get the new part and install it and we're on the road again. Headed to Kings Canyon to do our hardest and longest hike of the tour. To start off you are hiking almost vertical up the mountain. There was no ...
Australia's Beating Heart - Part 10
... landscape has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, featuring remarkable geological formations that date back 440 million years. Kings Canyon Resort is situated right inside the National Park. The Luritja people have inhabited the land for over ...
Not as grand as the one in the US
... back and forth we went until we got to Glen Hellen Resort. I‘m not sure what you need to have to be deemed a resort in Australia but at least on paper it‘s certainly not as much as in the States. Truth be told though I thought it was the ...
May 14, 2010
Kings Canyon, la gorge sèche
Le tour avec la toute molle continue à Kings Canyon. On arrive sur place au coucher de soleil et on a hâte de pouvoir s'enfoncer dans ces corridors sombres. Après un bon plat aux tendances thais, on passe la nuit toujours en mode western dans nos swags ...
Red Centre vs. Green Centre
... den idealen Einsatzort gefunden. Wir sind nach Alice Springs geflogen, eher langweilige Stadt, und dann mit dem Auto zum Kings Canyon. Dort haben wir die 4-stündige Wanderung in Angriff genommen und haben die grandiose Aussicht genossen. Wir befinden ...
Kings Canyon
... et ældre par 2 japanere der ikke kan specielt meget engelsk og en dame Yay. Efter en laaaang køretur kom vi til kings canyon som er virkelig flot. Sten formationerne er vilde vi havde en 3 timers hike. Igen lige mig fyre nogle kalorier af mens ...
Kings Canyon
... erreichen. Nach einer kurzen Siesta auf dem Campground stehen wir um kurz nach drei am Beginn des Rim Trail des King´s Canyon und der Pfad beginnt gleich mörderisch mit einer 350 m langen Steigerung, die nur über in das Gestein geschlagene Treppen zu ...
The Red Centre
Time to get back on the road, so a quick flight to Alice, booked the tour for the next day, and off I go again for another tour... and what a corker. 19 of us, with 2 guides bombing through the desert camping under the stars, and taking in some more ...
Wow - this is awesome!!
... it had to be that or colder! (We later found out it was actually more like -3 degrees!!!) Today's aim was to get to Kings Canyon and walk the rim. So only a couple of hundred km drive today we got to our destination by lunch time and scaled the awesome ...
Travel to Kings Creek Station - 269.57km
... ; Had a great drive, saw plenty of wildlife. Decided to collect some firewood as Neil and Sharon had been to Kings Creek Station previously and knew that fires were permitted, but fireewood had to be collected outside of the station property. About ...
Seeing red
Red Centre Tour - Day 1 Kings Canyon Sunny and bloody hot! Central Australia is GREAT! I love every bit of it! I was already fascinated with the redness of the outback to start with, but Uluru and Kata Tjuta just blew my mind! Ok, I'm getting ahead ...
Day 22: Kings Canyon Local Area
Back to another early start again (isn't this supposed to be a holiday??) and made my way to Kings Canyon in the dark to undertake the recommended 3 to 4 hour walk around the rim of the canyon. It was still relatively dark by the time I got going but once ...
Climbing Kings Canyon
Monday Today Mum, Dad, James, Kate and I woke up early and went On the walk up and around the Kings Canyon. It was a 6 km walk, and it took around 3 hours. it was really pretty on the top. Mum didn't like us going anywhere near the edge. (it was funny!) ...
Kings Canyon
... laughing was to keep us warm! We braved the cold weather the next day and ventured on a 3 hour walk up, around and down Kings Canyon with our new friends. The kids were unbelievable, as this was a 3 hour walk with lots of steep climbs. ...
Big crack
... canyon (yet still massive), Kings is (strangely) on a more human scale and perhaps easier to take in. I actually think I found Kings Canyon more incredible than Uluru! After a great morning and bbq lunch, we headed back to Alice Springs - more ...
Kings Canyon
... zum Kings Canyon Resort zurueck und relaxen bis etwa 3 Uhr nachdem wir am Campingplatz eingecheckt haben. Dann fahren wir zum Kings Canyon und unternehmen eine Wanderung, die uns erstmal ueber einen steilen Weg an den etwa 100 Meter hoeher gelegenen Rand ...
A Rainy Outback
... . I was fortunate enough however, to get up to Kings Canyon this past morning before the ranger closed the canyon because the rain makes the rocks slippery. Felt very lucky ...
Watarrka (Kings Canyon)
Next stop is an overnight visit to Kings Canyon. Although really beautiful, it is a bit disappointing after Uluru and Kata Tjuta. There is a very easy 1 hour walk through the Canyon which brings you into the centre where you can sit in the shade and relax ...