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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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Alice Springs and Australia's Invisible People
Blog: 501 Places - 5 September 2009
Alice Springs in mid-summer gets pretty hot. The sun is directly overhead at midday and casts no shadow. It's a busy town and an important one, as you would imagine with no neighbours for hundreds of miles in any direction (and thousands in some).
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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 was about as different from Melbourne as you could get. Alice Springs is nowhere near the [...]
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