Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park tagged posts

In Australia, Highlight, Traveled places, Oceania On  10/03/2013  No comments

See posts on trip through Australia 2012

• Street art em Melbourne
• Daintree Forest (tours)
• Yarra River, Melbourne
• Great Ocean Road
• Great Barrier Reef dive info
• Great Barrier Reef diving
• Signs: forbidden and allowed
• Cape Tribulation
• Cairns and surroundings
• Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
• Aboriginal Learning with Alison Hunt
• Manly beach yesterday
• Great graffiti art in Melbourne
• Train from Melbourne to Sydney
• Melbourne by night
• Wineries in Victoria
• Sky
• My colorful carnival
• Public bicycles
• My first helicopter flight… over Uluru

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In Australia, Oceania On  20/03/2012  One comment

Uluru is a place in Australia I always wanted to visit. It is my second reason to visit the country, right after the Great Barrier Reef. At the same time, this place wins in fascination, even before I learnt scuba dive, this huge rock fascinated me, when I saw in photos and movies. Deserts in general fascinates me, I believe what attracts me it is the immensity, like the sea, they are a dry version o the sea, it makes us feel small, to respect the nature. Movies as Rabbit-Proof Fence, A Cry in the Dark, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, showed me the Australian Outback, this enigmatic desert.

On my arrival at Yulara I got I little disappointed because there was no village, it was only a resort, and I don’t like big resorts, they are the same everywhere, even airports can have more personality. However, the 4 days there seduced me and I changed my mind.  On my first day I met Star and he invited me to see Allison for a talk on aboriginal’s culture (See Star post on...

In Australia, Oceania On  14/02/2012  No comments

And today it is about 40ºC.

View from the airplane window.