Ayers Rock

... vicariously in Australia" list... Ella and I will be visiting Sydney, Adelaide and Perth together and then I'll be off into the outback (Alice Springs, Ayers Rock) for a desert safari.... me, Dundee, wild dingos, roos, and poisonous snakes..

... all the people gasp and cheer for the sun.  It was yet another spectacular Aussie sunset.  About 40km west if Ayers Rock are "The Olgas", another outcropping of rocks, although these are less famous but just as spectacular.  We did the ...

... had very little to do with its "spiritual significance"... it was just too bloody hot! After a couple of days camping at Ayers Rock Resort, we were transformed from stingey backpackers to real "tourists". If we hadn't loosened the purse strings, so ...

... we arrived on our first day there, so we stayed fairly close to the campgrounds and found a lookout to watch the sunset over Ayers Rock. It was beautiful. There were a lot of clouds around to change colour with the setting sun and the rock really did ...

... are lots more pics to put on the site which she features in. It's just not the same without you Cheese!!! We spent 2 days in Ayers Rock resort, which we have now found was ample enough time to see most things. We flew to Ayers Rock airport which is ...

We flew Cairns to Ayers Rock yesterday and checked into an AC cabin in Ayers Rock Campground.  Last night we went to "Sounds of Silence" dinner out in the desert where we first viewed the Rock as the sun was setting.  Then had  an outdoor ...

... is still the same – very good.  Several new accommodations have been built.  The name has reverted from Yulara to Ayers Rock Resort, and the caravan park is now managed privately.  The prices are pretty much as they were 8 years ago, ...

... at Desert Gardens Hotel (part of the Voyages resort.) I am glad I picked this hotel. We got a great room with a view of Uluru (Ayers Rock.) Our room has the best view since the hotel is like and inverted V and we are at the point looking to U. I can even ...

... we went on to Kata tjuta which another rock formation about 25 miles from Uluru. In a way it was even more dramatic than Ayers Rock, it's definitely higher. We hiked up into Walpa Gorge. Well, maybe not hiked in the hiking sense of the word. A giveaway ...