Alice Springs Villas - Reviews and Rates

Arrived in Alice on a blisteringly hot day. Flies everywhere. It's a nice pretty modern town but they have social problems here with the indiginous local population. If you want to buy drink from the offy you have to have photo ID and your purchases are recorded and monitored to prevent you selling it on to the locals. So its off to bed cos were...

On Saturday I flew from Cairns to Alice Springs, which is in the middle of no where. No really....it's in the middle of the outback. While in Cairns I booked a 3 day camping/ hiking trip to see Uluru and other aboriginal sacred sites and parks. I got picked up from the airport by the hostel and as the driver dropped us off, I'm thinking, "what t...

After a long drive from Darwin, with overnight stops at Mataranka, Banka Banka and Prowses Gap, we finally reached Alice Springs- yipee!

So we are finally in Alice Springs! We are staying in the MacDonnell Range Tourist Park. It is cool as, there is a jumping pillow, 3 pools, games room, playgrounds and heaps more AWESOME stuff. We went to the Alice Springs Desert Park. It was a really interesting learning experience about the desert and desert animals. The park was a really fun ...

Alice Springs. Amazing timing to arive back here for an amaszing desert bands music festival. We have seen a great Melbourne band called Symbyosis and there have been great Dub, rock, jaz and regae bands - its been a blast and the time flew bye here. We ate a camel steak and a kangaroo steak - kangaroo is just like beef and camel is just like to...

We got up early again. Last night was a bit warmer and we added more blankets. So sleep was better. Another day of mostly driving through the outback. It is surprising how much variation there is in the outback. We have been taking pictures on the hour when we drive to try and campture some of changes. Arrived in Alice Springs around 2:30 and de...

So this is what we did. We flew a looooong way to Alice Springs where we hired to troopies and packed in 22 poeple and food and equipment for 8 days in the outback. Our plan was to drive 1500 kms and tour some of Australia's famous and not so famous natural wonders. On day one we drove to the Finke river (one of the oldest in Australia) and camp...

With Ayer's Rock receding in our rear view mirror, we stopped to take pictures of Mount Conner, another big large red lump of rock in the middle of nowhere. A car full of Australians had just arrived, whose conversation we overheard. "Wow, it's stunning!" "Yeah, pretty impressive huh?" "I've been waiting my whole life to visit Ayer's Rock and fi...

A day out from the Alice took us to the west macdonnel ranges.No big macs in site and we're luvvin it! Lots of swimholes, gorges and scenery plus the incredible variations of colour in the aboriginal ochre pits made this a fabulous day. We saw and took pictures of little black footed rock wallabies that looked exactly like bazil brush and we als...

Woken again at 6am by Scott and we pack up straight away before driving back to the sunset point to have breakfast. There is also a sunrise spot but Scott assures us we will only get the same views as last night but in reverse. In the car park we unload the breakfast things and I have some jam sandwiches thanks to a little pot of jam I bought at...