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...Experience "the red center" of Outback Australia. Travelling Aussie Locals and European Backpackers see the sunrise at Ayers Rock when you stay at the Ayers Rock Resort Lodge uluru and discover the sights and sounds of The Olgas Kata Tjuta Desert Gardens Ayers Rock sacred stories of the dreamtime Uluru rainbow serpent, then do the Ayers Rock Emu Walk tour of the rock aboriginal art sites to learn the history of the indigenous aboriginal people. Get local weather uluru Australia and Ayers Rock Uluru tourist info for the red center Australia Four Seasons Hotel accommodation in the Desert Hotel Ayers Rock Australia and information for the red center Australia Yalara Sails in the Desert Hotel Voyages Resort Australia and Northern Territory outback holiday flights Uluru accommodation information on the Ayers Rock Australia Hotels and Ayers Rock travel, The Ghan train fares bookings, The Alice Springs Station, Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park tours camping at Ayers Rock and Uluru climbing info plus the Alice Springs events calendar Australia, Kata Tjuta National Park map and more for less at Ayers-Rock-uluru.com The world famous Australian icon Ayers Rock, is a huge sandstone rock formation rising sharply above the desert in central Australia that is also known as "Uluru" its Aboriginal name, and is the ancesteral home of the indigenous "Anangu" people, made up of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara tribes of the region, who are the Traditional landowners.
Further Afield, there are many more interesting Australian landmarks that you may want to check out while traveling around this broad sun burnt country. They are the famous Australian icons, the absolutely magnificent! world heritage listed Great Barrier Reef in North Queensland, and the , truely awsome! and naturaly beautiful! Fraser Island off the Southern Queensland Coast of Australia. Even though the distances are vast, there is always plenty to see and do along the way when traveling out to Ayers Rock Uluru by road, especialy if you are willing to get off the main hiway a bit to discover some of the locals best kept secrets, which they are more than willing to tell you all about, if you take the time to stop into some of the local outback pubs and have a bit of a chat, and of course hang around for a while and spend a little money.
If your planning a bit of sightseeing before heading to the red center in the outback, there's plenty to see on the coast, there's The huge metallic silver structure of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the colourful lights of Sydney Opera House by night and Sydney's bronzed aussie Iron Men of the famous Bondi Beach, or if you are planning to travel further north to Queensland, the home of the Maroon's and the amber ale XXXX, then there's the long golden sandy beaches of the Gold Coast, the multi coloured sands of Rainbow Beach, the clear blue waters of the Whitsunday Islands Whitehaven Beach, the deep dark green rainforests of the Daintree and the many brightly coloured fish and colourful corals of The Great Barrier Reef if you realy want to see all the colours of the rainbow.
Mt Olga, visable from Ayers Rock is another remarkable sandstone rock formation that is the other main natural attraction in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, "Mount Olga" the highest peak, or "The Olgas" as most locals refer to the large multi domed mountain range that is easily accessable just 25 km west of uluru Ayers Rock, and is also known as "Kata Tjuta" its Aboriginal name. There is an entrance fee of $25.00 for a 3 day pass to get into the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park these days! but the good thing for families is that Children under 16 years of age, get free entry to the park.
You may wonder! Why is Ayers Rock Red? Well under the thin brittle red crust of the rock, the natural color of Ayers Rock is actually grey, the red colour is simply rust or oxidation that has formed on the rock, because the uluru rock formation has high levels of iron in its composition. Over time this rusting process turns to a darker red and finally causes peices of the rock to flake away to expose the grey rock underneath to the air and the rock starts to slowly turn red again. Ayers rock also appears to change colour from pink to dark red at sunrise to various shades of red, orange, yellow, and blue through the day and then will turn to a deeper red again for the Uluru sunset, due to the refraction of light as it shines through different thicknesses of atmosphere during the day and because the sun rising and setting at Uluru casts a shadow over the completely flat surrounding landscape, so Ayers Rock will appear to glow in a brilliant deep red because the sunlight is still shining on the rock.
Ayers Rock and The Olgas, both have there own
unique attraction for the tourist and are best viewed at dawn when they
come alive with the changing colours of the Australian outback for an
incredible light show, and then again in about 12 hours at dusk, when
they disapear into the night with a spectacular sunset of orange and red
to crimson then pink to mauve. Make sure that you have plenty of film
for your SLR, or an extra memory card for your digital camera, and pack a
video camera as well, because you just wont be able to get enough
pictures of Uluru-Kata Tjuta to show your family and friends back home
what they have missed out on. In the Red Center of Australia On those rare occasions when you get rainy days at Ayers Rock Uluru, the colours are different again with shades of grey, black and brown, sometimes even violet, but even more rarely if viewed from the right angle, with the refraction of the light, the legendary rainbow serpent can sometimes be seen over the rock. You may also be wondering! Why are sydney's famous blue Mountains blue? Well thats another story and another legend, so why not visit Sydney Australia and find out what the locals have to say!
Perhaps! it can all be sumed up by these wise words from the Anangu Elders. "The world was once a featureless place. None of the places we know existed until creator beings, in the forms of people, plants and animals, traveled widely across the land. Then, in a process of creation and destruction, they formed the landscape as we know it today. Anangu land is still inhabited by the spirits of dozens of these ancestral creator beings which are referred to as Tjukuritja or Waparitja." | |||||||
Ayers Rock Uluru 
Alice Springs
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Regional Map of Australia showing the main connecting hiways.
