Today is not a driving day. I booked an extra day for the campervan so I could explore the red center of Australia. However, nothing is just next to each other here so I still had to do some driving :D
I started with sun rise at Mt Uluru (Ayers Rock) and then drove the the Kata Tjuta rock formations. Both lay in the same national park. There, I chose a 4h walk though the valley of the winds. There were very few tourists here (I guess “4 hours; one way, difficult climbing” description scared most of them. Good for me.
The whole area is very sacred to the local aborigine tribes. There is no denial that this place is magical. The smooth polished rock fingers rising from the red sand are very majestic. Not to forget that “Valley of the Winds” is a very well chosen name. I came here to a very unique time. There was a huge hailstorm just 2 days ago. So you see burned tree trunks from all the bushfires in a blooming desert from all the rare abundance of water. The earth around you is all read from dark orange to deep blood. Stones, soil, gravel, to fine desert sand, everything glows in different shades of red, amazing atmosphere.
After this awesome walk, got back to driving an made my way 300km north west to the Kings Canyon National Park. You really have to pay heaps for petrol here. About 2$/L instead of 1.2/L. But I guess that Outback surcharge. I stayed in a very nice resort there and met a German couple from Munich in their honeymoons. It was a great evening speaking my mother tongue again.
I also tried one local specialty here: A Camel burger. The Afghan workers who build the telegraph lines more than a hundred years ago, brought their camels with them. No they are living wild in the Outback and I can confirm that they taste delicious.:D
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