So this is what the red planet looks like. It's actually much more verdant than we imagined but you can still tell you're in the desert by the dry air, brilliant blue sky and heat. Oh and the annoying flies. Unlike those on Fraser Island though, these buzz but don't bite which is something. It's only actually mid-twenties but we've been drinkin...

Weer een vroege start vandaag. De eerste wekkers in de dorm liepen af om 4u30 en dan was iedereen wakker natuurlijk. Om 6u10 komt ons busje ons halen. We reden tot aan een camel farm. Natuurlijk hebben we hier een ritje op een kameel gemaakt. Eigenlijk een dromedaris, maar kom. Best wel grappig en heel hobbelig. Onze kameel Blackie luisterde eig...

After the quite hearty breakfast from the balloon ride our group was joined by the rest of the party. We left on the big bus with Dave as our driver after me and a few others changed our clothes because of the dust and sand we picked up from packing the balloon away. Dave straight away went into his occasionally hilarious commentary about the la...

The day began at a by now manageable 35c and we motored on with Nick at the helm. Kerry had been injected with 20cc's of Mogadon to loosen her up for the journey and stop her chomping on the curtains and whaling. No, seriously we were all in good spirits and could almost smell victory. The aboriginals had been burning large areas of land in the ...

Today I had an early start (6am wake up) for my flight to Alice Springs. Fortunatly I had door to door pick up for the airport so there was minimal faffing around! The flight was uneventful - unfortunately I didn't have a window seat - but saw enough as we approached Alice to see that I really am in the middle of nowhere. The temperature change ...

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 Australie nesmi chybet bez navstevi Ayres Rock, coz je ohromny pahorek vycnivajici ze zeme up...

Insgesamt waren wir 12 Personen und hatten zwei Guides. Es war die letzte Tour des einen (Matthew) und die erste des andern (Joe). Ich wusste nur, dass wir Kings Canyon und den Uluru angucken wuerden. Was ich NICHT wusste, war, dass wir in diesen 2 Tagen ungefaehr 20 km unter die Turnschuhsohlen packen wuerden. Das Maedel im Hostel hat naemlich ...

Sorry about not posting a blog while i was there, but Alice Springs is hellishly expensive, so I am writing this from Darwin. While in Alice Springs, I decided to do as many tours as possible, thus allowing me to spend less time in the city itself. I took a tour to Ayers Rock with a company called Emu Tours, which is an awesome company, and I th...

Outside the land is baking. We are in air conditioned comfort in a 22-passenger coach. The red desert soil is dotted with green tufts and pencil thin desert oaks with thin green leaves, well adapted to this arid land. It was once a great shallow inland sea, and before that a mountain range as high as the Himalayas, but 1.8 billion years does ten...

Day 4 We got up just early enough to drive to Uluru and see the sunrise. It wasn't as impressive as sunset, possibly because it was similar. We went back for a quick dip in the pool and to stock up on food and then hit the road for Alice Springs. It was a pretty long drive, about 450 km and then a few more kilometers out to the Desert Park which...