Novotel Outback Alice Springs

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And the best thing about the Outback is that this is the first time besides the summit of Kilimanjaro where I have ever been in air so clean that I feel as if my body is being detoxed. Seriously, the air is pure that I feel it inside me when I breathe. I found one of the most amazing places I have been right here in the center of Australia. This place just keeps getting better and better and I have only scratched the surface.

... rant could easily spill out but I will spare you my opinion, other than the comment that if people have been managing for 60,000 years in a harsh environment they must have been doing a lot right..

Spent another day in the city with my friend visiting two very different suburbs – Cabramatta and Newtown, The former is a mainly Vietnamese area which we were visiting to buy fabric (not for me – never did hand in my first year sewing project) – better ...

... mit eigener Zeiteinteilung. Zurueck in Alice besuchten wir das Hauptquartier der "Fliegenden Doktoren" und wir hatten Zeit einige Einkaeufe zu erledigen. Den freien Abend verbrachten die meisten mit einem gemeinsamen Abendessen im Overlander Restaurant und dann ging es zum Absacker in den Saloon.

... house (mainly coz its air-conned, but also coz it has my favourite critters in there).
I've learnt a lot more about typical Aussie animals, like the lazy Kangaroo and various types of bird, but I've also taken a liking to the little Thorny Devil lizard, who is indicative of this desert area because he camouflages so well to the orange dusty soil and the prickly dry grasses ...

... to shop.

Mum and Jacob had a special day spent at the Alice Springs Desert Park which is a combined desert botanic garden and wildlife park. It is a must see for anyone visiting the area and has the best nocturnal house I have come across yet. We got to see a beautiful little bilby going about his nightly business as well as a quoll, two animals I have never seen in real life. The flowering displays were fantastic and we ...

... from where we are sat that we cant see any of what the poor girl is preparing. She has a piece of opal (im guessing) in her hand that she puts up to various moving objects / into various things and/rubs against something - lordy knows. She has an amazing disinterest in all that she does and at the end of each new process she holds up the invisable object...see.....yep and then we do this.....some distant hand movement...see........then this..something ...

... visual. What a sight! We got our campsite organised and although it was late in the day, we drove out to the rock so we could walk up to it & check it out. M was keen as to climb it, but I wasn't so sure. The boys & he did a pretty good attempt that very day. I couldn't watch. I got to chicken rock and felt a bit scared but the 3 lads kept going right up. I thought it was lucky it was getting dark as maybe M ...

... creek crossings and we roared through the Drysdale River crossing but very gently eased our way through the King Edward River as only a day before one guy had torn his sump off on a submerged rock!



We camped in Mitchell River National Park and walked about 5kms down to the cascading Mitchell Falls, spent the afternoon swimming in the pools and then had a helicopter flight over the Falls area and back to camp ...

... were – impressively- doing their laps.





We took a trip inland to Bowral, a little though now very popular and too busy town, where my godfather used to live. It is on the Southern Highlands and the roads to and from it through Kangaroo Valley are very steep and windy – there is no way we would have wanted to take the van along them as there were lots of ...

... on taskukohased, kohati isegi v2ga odavad (hetkel ka AUD madala kursi t6ttu). 6htul k2isime 6lut ja siidrit libistamas ja kohalikku neljap2eva6htust 88elu uurimas. See oli suurlinnale kohaselt vilgas. N2dalavahetuse saabudes pidavat kleidid veel lyhemaks ja kontsad veel k6rgemaks muutuma. Transpordisysteem on ka meeldivalt lihtne ning saime 88hakul isegi rongiga koju. Restoranide kylastamisel tuleb esmalt paika panna, millist k88ki proovida ...