From Cairns to Alice Springs there is the beauty of ... In 2500 km 2500 km run from the car window you see all types of landscapes : the lush rainforests of north Queensland, interrupted here and there with endless stretches of banana trees, as soon as you leave the coast to plunge inward turn into a savanna with bushes and shrubs giallissimi burnt by the sun ... and then the landscape becomes increasingly red
... We came all this way in 6 days ... stopping in remote villages in the rest of the world ignores the existence (with the exception of Mt Isa), hundreds of miles distant from each other, but each with its own history ... Then as you move inland, the villages also become rare, and those on the map you seem to be towns are really just Roadhouse with a pub, a petrol station and a camping
Well ... ... after all this way Alice Springs you really appears like an oasis in the desert ...
But if you think you've finally reached the goal you're wrong ... because the beauty of Australia's outback require additional effort of about 500 km ... and maybe that's what makes you appreciate even more .... Apart from the huge distances to be added also the totally unexpected bitter cold nights of the outback! In Alice Springs I spent the coldest night in a tent in my life (among other things, a cat who tended to ambush us ...) ...
After that night we left the tent idea and we went to sleep in three in the car!
Anyway ... we are survivors ... and the next day we went to the West McDonnell Range ... a series of gorges, canyons, sheer cliffs and spectacular waterholes!
... We came all this way in 6 days ... stopping in remote villages in the rest of the world ignores the existence (with the exception of Mt Isa), hundreds of miles distant from each other, but each with its own history ... Then as you move inland, the villages also become rare, and those on the map you seem to be towns are really just Roadhouse with a pub, a petrol station and a camping
Well ... ... after all this way Alice Springs you really appears like an oasis in the desert ...
But if you think you've finally reached the goal you're wrong ... because the beauty of Australia's outback require additional effort of about 500 km ... and maybe that's what makes you appreciate even more .... Apart from the huge distances to be added also the totally unexpected bitter cold nights of the outback! In Alice Springs I spent the coldest night in a tent in my life (among other things, a cat who tended to ambush us ...) ...
After that night we left the tent idea and we went to sleep in three in the car!
Anyway ... we are survivors ... and the next day we went to the West McDonnell Range ... a series of gorges, canyons, sheer cliffs and spectacular waterholes!
In the afternoon we drove to Erldunda forgiven (the roadhouse, which marks the junction to the Ayers Rock and Kings Canyon) and I drove with a spectacular sunset and the column sound of "Shine on you crazy diamond" by Pink Floyd experience ... creepy ...
Kings Canyon did not know quite as expected and are sincere, I really impressed! I did not think the world could exist
a place like this ... We did a walk of 7 km and after a good initial steep climb along the entire canyon, passing through a gigantic fire-red rocks that make you feel small child ... But the most impressive thing is the vegetation that grows in the middle of the canyon walls ... call it the Garden of Eden ... and perhaps it is really ... I would not surprised to see a dinosaur appear from behind a rock ... =)
And finally we
... No matter how many times you've seen in postcards or picture ... when you find him, illuminated by sunlight, so in the midst of a huge expanse of flat, you can not be prepared ... It 's simply amazing ...
And when you understand why you are there for Aboriginal Uluru is a sacred place ...
is not simply a rock has something ... mystical about that it is impossible to explain ...
... No matter how many times you've seen in postcards or picture ... when you find him, illuminated by sunlight, so in the midst of a huge expanse of flat, you can not be prepared ... It 's simply amazing ...
And when you understand why you are there for Aboriginal Uluru is a sacred place ...
is not simply a rock has something ... mystical about that it is impossible to explain ...
The next day we dedicated to Kata Tjuta, or Mt Olgas ... 36 panettone red rock sticking out in the middle of nowhere ... The site is for most inaccessible because it is held sacred by the aborigines, but you can make a really beautiful walk in the Valley The Winds in the midst of these giant domes.
Reluctantly we left this magical place and we put back in the street ... (not without a last set of photos to Uluru with a clear sky!) The stretch of the Stuart Highway south of Alice Springs is still what I enjoy most ... It 's amazing to observe the contrast of colors between the red earth, interrupted here and there by a tree or bush and expanses of yellow and blue of the sky ... spinnifex
The landscape changes completely when you get near Coober Pedy. From the red plate begin to sprout cones that seem to clear land but in reality many giant ant 'the diggings of the opal mines. The people 'arrived years ago from all over the world in search of fortune and began to dig holes ... Coober Pedy
and 'absolutely fascinating' cause the majority of buildings (including the hostel where we stayed!) Are underground, built into the ruins of the mines ... And so 'you're facing this city' gray and dusty but 'underground has a whole world to discover! In this way they have solved the problem of the stifling heat of summer and cold winter nights: it seems that there are underground constant 25 degrees!
After this last taste of the outback, we put back into the car to our destination: South Australia!
Yesterday, after exactly 5,277 kilometers, we finally arrived in Port Augusta ... with a terrible anxiety of having come all this way and find new problems ...
Luckily everything 'went smoothly and in less than ten minutes we had already' register for our car!! Mission accomplished!
the evening we were already 'stuck in traffic in Adelaide ... already 'I miss the outback!
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