Alice Springs Motels - Reviews and Rates

We now have my last three days left on my trip and we have made it to Alice Springs with yet another tour guide, he seems a good laugh though! The first day was alot of driving and he took us to see Uluru at sunset which really was amazing to see with sparkling wine and crackers! As the sun was going down it made Uluru look stunning and just as ...

i awoke just after sunrise on day 2 a bit stiff from sleeping without a pillow (though i had tried to use my jacket) but excited for what treasures the day held. today we were bound for the well-known rock formation called The Olgas, or Kata-Tjuta (Kah-tah Joo-dah) in the local Anangu language. after breakfast and packing up the campsite, it was...

Gumerungi Steve, the radio journalist I interviewed in Alice Springs has kindly agreed to share some personal photos with my readers. All photoes in this Entry are from his trip to Aurukun (Western Cape York, Queensland, Australia) last April-May where Steve was part of a group of people that ran media education program in the Koolkan (Aurukun) ...

Alice Springs here I come! This time I made my flight. A better start than before. :) It was facinating watching the land we flew over ger more and more red and baron. I was quite excited to go see Alice Springs. Not so much for the town itself, but to be litterally in the middle of nowhere, and of course to see Uluru (Ayres Rock). I arrived hun...

We arrived at Alice Springs at 8 in the morning or something ridiculous, having travelled all night from Singapore. needless to say we were pretty tired and stepping out of the airport into a wall of heat didn't really help much. The taxi driver confirmed it was over 30 degrees already - help, we're going to fry!!! We got settled into our hostel...

After just over 2 hours of flying over red scrub land we arrived at Alice Springs. Getting off the plane there are two things that hit you as your now a world away from the tropical beaches of Cairns. Firstly the heat is stiffling at 40C it's not unlike being back in India, secondly the place really is very red. It may sound silly but it's much ...

21st to 22nd Nov 2007 On Wednesday, 21st, I had an early rise to catch the shuttle bus to the The Ghan train at Darwin station. The train left Darwin around 1000 and stopped off at Katherine. Got off the train and wandered around the town for 3 hours - very small place and not much to do. Got back on the Ghan and left Katherine at 6pm. Went to t...

Woke at 4.30am and dressed in the warmest clothes possible. The bus that was supposed to pick us up at 5am turned up at 5.30 so we could have had an extra half hour of sleep. We drove out of town for about 30kms to meet the other bus carrying the balloon. They unloaded the basket and set up the burners to inflate the balloon and we all stood aro...

Not much to say on Alice Springs really. The problems between aboriginal people and non-indigenous people seem more evident here than anywhere else! Won't go into it much here but I think it could be a long time before aboriginals are integrated into modern Australian society (if indeed they really want to be!). Just stayed one night before head...

All hail the guy who invented air-conditioning. To save a mutual typing/reading effort we will just go with the fact that everyday is damn hot out here with it apparently being cooler tomorrow - only 42 degrees. Heading out to greet Alice, as she's locally known, the town has quite a lot of character which is not really surprising given its low ...