Uluru and Kata Tjuta

This morning we rise very early (again). Being picked up at 5:20 for sunrise at Uluru.  It’s already very warm out however it seems the flies don’t get up until the sun does.

Beautiful!

It really is a magnificent site.  Uluru or Ayers Rock.  

We drive around the circumference of the Rock...it’s approximately 12 kms so walking it in this heat with the flies is almost impossible.  There is a side to the Rock that is very sacred and tells so many stories however you are not permitted to take pictures.  It was so interesting and I wish I could have taken pictures but you have to respect the people and their community.  After hearing all the stories and seeing it up close I’ll never look at it in the same way.

That afternoon we are picked up again and we enter the National Park once more to view Kata Tjuta.

Kata Tjuta. There is so much more to these rocks...how they were formed and what they mean to the Anangu people.  These land masses were formed over 500 million years ago but in very different circumstances which you can see when you’re up close. 





That night we watch the sunset and then have a barbecue under the stars.  After wonderful food including kangaroo and unlimited delicious Australian wine, we are told about the constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.  Beautiful night as they pour us back on the bus and back to the lodge.  Thank heaven we can sleep in tomorrow.




Uluru was covered by the ocean again after it erupted from the plates coming together.  When the ocean receded the land mass had been pressed together under the weight of the ocean to create a solid type rock.  Kata Tjuta was formed later and was never covered by the ocean therefore the Rock formation is not as solid and looks like many rocks glued together.

Here  we are with our lovely fly nets on.

Marlene and I had a wonderful lunch at the restaurant in Sails In The Desert Hotel before leaving for the airport for the short flight to Adelaide.