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Ray
Kings Canyon, Kata Tjuta & Uluru

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Posted on August 14, 2008

This place was really something special. We did the three day "Rock Tour" with Mulgas. $275 gave us a guided tour of three uniquely different places. Namely Kings Canyon, Kata Tjuta and Ayers Rock or "Uluru".

Each site is steeped in ancient aboriginal history which adds to their spectacular nature.

Each day we arrived at a new venue in the massive national park and by night we setup camp outback style and slept in our cosy swags around the orange campfire.

The biggest highlight of the tour was of course Uluru. We got the chance to see the sun set ...


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Ray
Darwin

Posted by Ray
Posted on August 14, 2008

We rented the very popular "Wicker Camper" called "Too Much Coffee Man" for our journey from Alice Springs to Darwin. Just short of 1600km, the trip was definitely a memorable one. All of us shared the mainly boring drive up north. The outback rarely changes from straight tarmac roads with the red sand surroundings. Occasionally we would come across some road kill Skippy's which if we hit would cause fairly serious damage to our 14 year old Toyota campervan.

Along the way we stopped at Catherine Gorge, Kakadu and Leichfield national parks. Kakadu by size is close to ...


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Ray
Cairns

Posted by Ray
Posted on August 30, 2008

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