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How to See the Best of Alice Springs in 24 Hours
Blog: Landlopers - 4 January 2012
Alice Springs Travel Tips Many people know Alice Springs, Australia as the gateway to the Red Centre. From Alice thousands of travelers launch exhaustive tours of Kings Canyon, Glen Helen and of course Uluru, otherwise known as Ayers Rock. Many people just pass through...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Four Thoughts on Australia
Blog: Landlopers - 8 December 2011
In August we traveled to Australia as a result of a Twitter contest I won through the Northern Territory. We decided to extend the trip into a vacation and spent almost two weeks exploring as much of Australia as we could. Given the grotesque size...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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42 Things I Love About Australia’s Northern Territory
Blog: Landlopers - 24 November 2011
I originally was going to write about the 42 things I love about Australia, but even in list form the country is just too big. The more I thought about my time in Australia, the more I realized that many of my favorite activities, as...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Tracking the History of the Ghan Train in Alice Springs
Blog: Landlopers - 1 November 2011
“Well, there’s the Old Timers Museum, School of the Air, and the Old Ghan Museum isn’t too far away,” our cab driver kindly suggested as we drove to pick up our campervan and begin our exploration of Australia’s Outback. Another travel hiccup had occurred, and...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Bilbies and Bettongs – The Alice Springs Desert Park Nocturnal Experience
Blog: Landlopers - 24 October 2011
We weren’t supposed to spend the night in Alice Springs. My Grand Plan for the Outback in Australia clearly had us picking up the Britz campervan and driving to Glen Helen for a night of “roughing it.” The day before though we learned that there...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Part II – Off-Roading in Australia – My Campervan Road Trip Through the Red Centre
Blog: Landlopers - 21 September 2011
Continued from yesterday Part II It wasn’t just the lack of paved roads that scared me, it was the uncertainty of the condition of the roads on which I knew we would have to drive for several hundred kilometers before we reaching the Kings Canyon...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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Off-Roading in Australia – My Campervan Road Trip Through the Red Centre
Blog: Landlopers - 20 September 2011
Part of the condition of my trip to Australia’s Red Centre was that we travel around in a Britz Campervan. The idea was to replicate the trip Andrew Evans, the world famous travel writer and digital nomad, took around the Northern Territory. Since I won...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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A Festival Like Alice 2
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 19 September 2011
As I mentioned in the previous post, I'm currently in Alice Springs for the annual Alice Desert Festival. I'd already done some dot painting and taken in an outdoor premiere of a new play; now here's what happened the next day.Music in the gorge
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A Festival Like Alice 1
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 18 September 2011
I'm on my very first visit to the Northern Territory, and I've gone right to the centre of Australia - Alice Springs. In a few hours on Thursday morning I was transported from a chilly tram stop on Bourke Street, Melbourne, to the hot dry red-dust environment of Alice Springs. And all without producing a passport.
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Exploring Australia – The Itinerary
Blog: Landlopers - 19 August 2011
Earlier this year the Northern Territory of Australia, in conjunction with the amazing National Geographic travel writer Andrew Evans, hosted a contest asking people to name the reason why the Northern Territory is the place they would most like to visit in Australia. Entries were...Copyright LandLopers All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
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10 Things to Know before Driving Outback Australia
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 12 January 2011
1: Farmers Don’t Like Pulling Your Camper Out of Their Road Outback Australia is a great place to drive a 4WD. If you know how to do it. When a...
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The Weekly Photo: A Cut through Time
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 7 August 2010
Sheer walls at Australia’s King’s Canyon [...]
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Riding the Sun to the East Coast
Blog: Wanderlust - 9 June 2010
Stanley and Us Less than 200 km north of Alice Springs, we reached the Tropic of Capricorn, which meant warmer weather ahead. The road from Central Australia to the East Coast was full of long days driving hundreds of kilometers through a deep haze passing through small towns that had nothing more to offer than [...]
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The Great Ocean Road to Adelaide
Blog: Wanderlust - 19 May 2010
The 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road Surprise surprise, I’m posting less than a week since my previous post. I’ve spent more time at McDonald’s in the past three days than my entire life. More on that later. I left Melbourne a day earlier than I had planned when the two French guys I [...]
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Some Places In My Travels
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 9 October 2009
Haven't really had the time to post here for a while, but here are a few of the places I've been to. I've been to placesI've travelled aroundTo Darwin and Tassie
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Alice Springs, Australia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 27 September 2009
They don't call it the Red Center for nothing. The three hour flight from Melbourne took us to the desert town of Alice Springs--literally in the middle of nowhere. Everything was covered in red dust and the river through town was a dry bed. Alice isn't much to speak of itself, but it's the launch point for excursions around the Outback including the largest rock in the world: Ayer's Rock, or by the original Aboriginal name (sort of), Uluru. We booked a three day, two night camping trip with The Rock tour company to see more.
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The Red Earthed Land
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 18 July 2009
Out in the far far way we wentAlong the dusty tracksTo where the sun beat down by dayAnd the sun slew back by nightOf an ancient land with clay red earth that white men never cameUntil the time of sailing ships that change the face of this great landA face that tweren't the same.But out there in the dusty red earth desert of the wildA dark man roamed with childer three and wife and familyThe tribe for that is what they wereLived freely off the landAnd tended it with care and loveAnd doused it with their pains
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Alice Springs - Camel Safari
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 8 July 2009
Saturday 17 September:After arriving in the Alice around noon, I did something that was on my "to do" list - went camel riding. Pyndan Camels had the best prices - so that decided me. I chose the Twilight Safari. Well not exactly chose - the other times were fully booked! As it turned out, the Twilight one was best because after the Safari was over, the camels had to be fed and we all took part.
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Alice Springs September 2005
Blog: The Travelling Teapot - 6 July 2009
Saturday 17th June 2005Above: Welcome to Alice
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Fibreglass Sheep
Blog: Trail of Ants - 7 June 2009
Left a bit, left a bit. This t-junction? No. Down a bit. A bit more. This old gold-rush town? Warmer! Down a bit. These big round, red rocks? Getting warmer. Down a bit more. Hmmm. Ah! The little green aliens – that’s it, right? No. Warmer though. Alice Springs – yeah? [...]
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Mereenie we roll along
Blog: round the world - the other way - 25 April 2009
Australia is a vast country and after spending five months here we were painfully aware how little of it we had seen. So it was time to say bye-bye to Melbourne and get back on the road. Our first destination … Continue reading →
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