We picked up our hire car from the airport and drove to the resort.
We set off directly for the rock, it was an imposing sight amoungst all the flat terraine. Respecting the wishes of the Aboriginal people we did not walk up the rock but instead as we had time before the sunset, we walked around it, a 9.4 km very pleasant walk with many angles and faces of the rock not imagined from the many pictures we had seen before. Nearing the end of the walk we had to pick up the pace as the sun seemed to descend at an alarming speed. The sunset that day was rather a cloudy one and did not give off the great orange glow we had expected so we decided to return another day.
We stayed in the Outback Pioneer Hotel but awoke with arms and shoulders covered with bites, mozzies we thought....oh how wrong we were.
The following day we travelled to Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) which were again an impressive sight on the landscape, here we did the Valley of the Winds walk as well as the Walpa Gorge walk 10km in all, the whole area was very peaceful and very scenic.
we stayed to watch the sunset with our flask of red wine!
On Sunday we decided to get up early for the Sunrise on Uluru and were rewarded with a superb sight. We then travelled to Kings Canyon approx 300km away, the day was warmer but still only 19 degrees C, very pleasant to walk up and around canyons! there were some great drop offs and rock formations created, we did the rim walk 6km with some scambling up rocks required, the views made it well worth the effort.
More photos to come!
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