Desert Palms Resort Alice Springs

... get down onto the ground, we were transported in a cage operated by a fork lift truck down to ground level!!! Desert Palms at Alice Springs, where we stayed, was brilliant - idllyic and very hot : perfect place to relax after the excitement of ...

... , jamais eu de plage, jamais eu de restaurant, en un mot, jamais eu de Sheida !! De l'aéroport d'Alice Springs, je rejoins mon hôtel, le Désert Palms Resort, comme j'ai une petite faim, je dois rejoindre le centre ville qui se trouve a 1,5 km, je ...

The first day was a day of leisure, arriving around midday at the Desert Palm resort. From the drive in Alice Springs appears quite spread out and arid. I am glad I am here in winter and not the heat of summer. I spent the afternoon strolling to the city ...

... . Uluru was as fantastic as we imaginged as was Kings Canyon.  The walks were hard work but well worth the effort.  Alice Springs is an odd place, alcohol is a real issue with the Aboriginals and the government have made it hard for them to buy ...

... pakitud ja valmis pikaks bussis loksumiseks. Broneerisime neljap2evase reisi, seega p2iksel oleks viimane aeg end ilmutada hommikuse t6usu ajal. Alice Springs ise on minu meelest k6ige kurvem kyla, kus ma olen kunagi k2inud. T2navad on peaaegu inimtyhjad, ...

... and bought a couple things I needed and to Coles Supermarket and bought some food to stock my refrigerator back at the Desert Palms Resort.  I walked back, fighting the flies again, and returned to my room.  I changed clothes and went to the ...

... our shoes back on and head back to the bus.  We headed back to Alice Springs and the bus dropped me off at the Desert Palms Resort at about 5:30 pm. For dinner, I walked down to a place called "Bojangles Saloon".  It is a bar/restaurant ...

Monday We arrived at Alice Springs to a hot 31 degrees. After a quick change at the airport we caught a taxi to the Desert Palms Resort, our motel style accommodation at the edge of Alice Springs city centre.  It was a busy time here as the Variety ...

Exploration des falaises Nord et Sud. Arrivée à Cairns le soir vers ...

... chatted and ate and watched the rock change colors until the sunset.  Then it was back into the bus for the long ride back to Alice Springs.  We stopped at a roadside café for a break about 10:00 pm.  Then many of us, me included, slept ...

... stop the incessant buzzing or help visibility but it did cut down a lot on the swatting and enable me to do a lot more.  Alice Springs is a very small Aboriginal town in Central Australia--when I say small, I mean it. The center of town is 3 square ...

... (c)    There are NO flies. The flies rise en masse with the sun and do not disappear until sunset We arrived in Alice Springs after a 25 hour train journey from Adelaide. It had two speeds - slow and very slow ( and then stop). It was an ...

... of the canyon. Kings Canyon offers a great array of scenery and was a great way to end our trek. It was then back to Alice Springs. We took a “Short Cut” down a 100km gravel road, but the road was quite corrugated and likely took us longer ...

... early afternoon, found a hostel and did the last shopping for the next days in the outback. Even though Alice Springs lies in the middle of the desert it looks like every other small city, they have supermakets, K-mart and KFC. Only one thing struck ...

... flowing this course for 100 million years. we stopped also at the ochre pits that have the many colors of the desert used in art. back in alice springs, we are finally starting to see lots of aboriginal people. the last group came out of the bush to ...

Look out there I go again with movie references you have to be older than 30 and probably Australian to get that one. Did I tell you about the rain, 450kms of it to get here. well and truly soaked gloves and boots but the good news is that all else was ...

... it, the gorge was beautiful and this section was my favourite of the Lara Pinta. It was then back to Alice and the relative comfort of a resort room. We parted with Di our marvellous Lara Pinta guide who was leaving up to lead another trip the next ...

... the YHA and Shelley said her goodbyes. Of the 20 people in our group it looks like 18 of us are continuing on to Alice Springs. South Australia is a “free” state, meaning that it was first settled by free settlers, and not with convicts. ...