Comienza la aventura!
Trip Start
Jan 14, 2008
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Trip End
Dec 19, 2008
Where I stayed
Flinders Station Backpacker
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Al dia siguiente, al tour. Aqui las distancias son enormes y, para ver cualquier cosa, hay que hacer miles y miles de km por paisajes donde solo hay arena roja y canguros muertos, atropellados por vehiculos durante la noche. Nosotros tuvimos suerte, y pudimos verlos antes vivitos y saltando en nuestra primera parada en carretera (por lo visto aqui en Australia hay unas 48 especies distintas; aqui y en todo el mundo!).
Luego, a poner el culo de nuevo en el bus y a socializarse, camino a King's Canyon. Y amiguitos hicimos, como Yuri, una japonesita de lo mas graciosa, que nos acompaño hasta Kakadu y un grupito de austriacos, que buscaron junto con Phil un Edelweiss por el jardin del Eden
Canguro de cerca
. Despues de un impresionante paseo por el cañon, fuego de campamento y a dormir en el frio desierto en nuestras tiendas.A la manaña, el momento mas esperado... Uluru!! el madrugon merecio la pena para ver el espectaculo. Si si, es como dicen! cambia de color con la luz y es alucinante. Hicimos fotos, caminamos alrededor y admiramos esta roca en medio de las mas absoluta nada, sagrada para los aborigenes, que sobresale tan solo una pequeña parte de su tamano real (es como un iceberg que guarda bajo tierra unos 4 km de profundidad), y que esta pequeña parte, de unos 400 m., esta ya muy erosionada (en su dia tenia la altura de los alpes). Curioso pais...
... y mas aun el famoso centro rojo, arido pero super bonito, con los trenes de carretera (camiones de tres y cuatro vagones) y bares de lo mas curiosos, los Roadhouse, que alojan colecciones curiosas de cosas que va dejando la gente (yo deje tambien mi huella aunque bueno, lo mas probable es que ya no pase nunca mas por alli).
Como guinda, Kata Kjuta (Los Olgas) y de vuelta a Alice Springs... en total en los dos dias, una distancia equivalente a recorrer Europa.
By Pato
We arrived to Alice Springs, to the heat and to start an adventure tiring but exciting
Canguro en accion
. As we spected, the town had nothing special. Only aborigins in a really sad state, poor them, and a cold night.The following day we started the tour. Here the distances are huge and to see something you have to drive for thousands of km. across empty landscapes: only beautiful red sand and dead kangaroos killed by the cars at night. Fortunately we could see them alive and jumping in our first stop in the road (there are 48 different species of them!).
After that, again to the bus and start to socialize with the people while arriving to King's Canyon. And we made friends like Yuri, a very funny japanese girl and a group of austrian who looked with Phil for an Edelweiss in Eden's Garden. After a great walk in the Canyon we went to the camp where we made a nice fire and slept in the freezing cold of the dessert.
In the morning, the most expected moment... Uluru!! we had to wake up quite early but it really worth it. The sunrise on the rock was amazing and it didn't disapointed us. So beautiful, changing colors with the light, we could walk around and admire this rock in the middle of nowhere and that is sacred for the aborigin people.
Sandra y Phil en Kings Canyon
In fact, what we can see is only a little part of it. Actually it is like an iceberg with 4 km depth under the floor! and also it was quite bigger before, high as the Alps but erosionated until its size now (400m). Funny country...... and so it is the famous red centre, dry and beautiful, full of roadtrains (huge trucks) and strange roadhouses full of things that people leave in their way (I did it also!).
As a perfect end of the tour, Kata Kjuta (The Olgas) and then back to Alice Springs. In total, we did in two days a distance which is equivalent to drive through all Europe!
