This is the road leading up to Uluru. This shot gives you an idea of the sheer size of this thing… it’s huge!!!

We took a tour of Kata Tjuta with Eco Tours. It wasn’t a bad tour and the guy who led us knew a lot about area.
We enjoyed some wine and dukah while watching the sun… It’s similar to Uluru as the colour of the rocks change as the sun sets.

Water collects between the rocks in the Olgas. The water feeds a variety of native of Australian native plants.

This is the entrance to Kata Tjuta – otherwise known as the Olgas. The ground is like an old cobblestone path that you’d find in a medieval town.
In summer it’s too hot to walk up these rocks. The large rocks on either side of the walkway act like an oven making passage impassable.

This is me patting a camel… it wasn’t wombat (the camel that carried us)… he seemed a little anti-social.

The camels are pretty funny… they all made noises before we got on them to try and scare us off riding them. They then walked pretty slowly on the trip out to the lookout but once it came to the return trip home they picked up speed.

The cameleer that took us out told us that on average a camel can drink 210L of water in 10 minutes and that they drink every chance they get. They’ve can smell water from a distance and have been known to rip open people’s air conditioners because they can smell the moisture.

Yep… another shot of Uluru in the middle of the day. It had been overcast for the past 2 days which made the rock look really dull. Well the clouds are all gone and the rock is back to it’s bright red best.
It’s one of those things that you sort of can’t believe… every time you look at it you want to take another photo because it’s so much larger than life…

We rode the camels from the station at Yulara and did a loop around part of Ayers Rock Resort. We stopped at one of the lookouts on the outskirts of the resort and to watch the sunrise.

Kimmy Patting A Camel

This is a part of Uluru that has been weathered away at the base of the rock. Rocks coming out of the wall look like faces.
The story goes that a rival tribe called the Mulgas cast a spell and sent a devil dog to attack the Mala tribe. Many of the Mala tribe fleed the rock however five men stayed behind to protect the Mala escape. It’s said that these five rocks are those five men and that they stay there to keep watch over the Mala people.

This is another shot of a camel.