Alice Springs Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

After stopping overnight in Darwin airport we set off on flight number 2 to Perth via Alice Springs. As soon as we took off from Darwin we were sruck by the views of the Australian bush. It took around two hours to get to Alice Springs, the best bit of the journey being the last 20 minutes or so due to the spectacular rock formations as we came...

And so we arrive in Alice Springs after 3 days solid driving from the North West corner to dead center of this massive country. 1000 of our 1700 kms were on dirt road across the Tanami Desert. A road once famed as a severely challenging four wheel drive track, but now somewhat moderated (and improved) by the demands of the some of the world's la...

Australia's 'Red Centre' has lived up to all my expectations: the incongruous red rocky masses of Uluru and Kata Tjuta breaking up the vast flat expanses of red earth and contrasted with vivid blue skies really do warrant the hype. As the country's main tourist attraction, I was prepared for Angkor-style crowds at the sunset viewing spot when I...

Our outback adventure started in Alice Springs! We got up at 4:30 am and got picked up by Adventure Tours bus. We went to the valley of the winds and did a little hike. The girls and I got quite hot as it was about 40 celcius so we returned before the end and waited. Next we went to Uluru (Aires Rock) in time for sun set. It was great. Back to s...

We landed at Alice Springs airport and were taken by minibus to our hotel. The town of Alice Springs straddles the usually dry Todd River on the northern side of MacDonnell Ranges. The region where Alice Springs is located is known as Central Australia, or the Red Centre, and is an arid environment consisting of several different deserts. We wer...

The drive to Alice Springs was only 500 km with a couple of interesting stops on the way down. The first, about 90 km south of Tennants Creek is the 'Devils Marbles' A scattering of huge rounded boulders thought by the local Warumungu Aborigines to be the eggs of the Rainbow Serpent. They were good and looked like you could just push a few over....

27/10 after not getting to bed til 1/2ish had to get up at 5am to get picked up for the tour. It took til 1 to finally get to the camp near uluru. Did the base wall which is just over 9 km but it was fab it's not how you think it will look. On the way to the sunset look out point saw a rainbow over uluru-amazing. Saw sunset over the rock then we...

FINKE REST AREA (23 August 2006) We arrive at our rest stop on the highway, on route to Alice Springs called Finke River Rest Area. Of course there is no water in the river, they are currently in a dry spell. After cleaning all the mess and pumping air in all our tyres Ashley, Leanne and kids arrive all relaxed having a cold ale that they purcha...

Can you leave Australia before you have seen what is beyond the line of civilization along the coast? I guess not, so a trip to outback Australia is the last thing to do before going home. From Alice Springs, I depart on a 5-day tour to what is called the Red Centre. We head off to the MacDonnell Ranges with its spectacular gorges and Palm Valle...

First impressions of Alice Springs were mixed. Firstly it wasn't raining, which after the washout of Cairns was a huge bonus, and its got a nice little pedestrian parade and some ok shops that gave it an air of charm. However, the streets are full of Aborigines that smell to high heaven and are really abusive, so its not a nice place to walk aro...