Day 9: Warakurna - Yulara

We are finally at Yulara, 6km from Uluru in the Northern Territory.

Once again our drive was pretty good. We had been warned that once we were passed Docker River the road surface would be terrible. It was bad but bearable. It tended to be worse through aboriginal land.

During our 1200km drive across the outback we saw very few kangaroos, avoided killing half a dozen lizards, saw around 10 moving vehicles, 100 wrecked cars and perhaps 50 camels. The camels nearly always were standing in the middle of the road, they would gallop off, then stop and have a look round to make sure you weren't chasing them.

As we approached The Olgas, Ol and I went quiet, overwhelmed. They are beautiful, majestic rock formations of granite, basalt and mud stone. Over the next few days we will come back and explore.

As we passed The Olgas we turned onto real road... I never thought I would be so please to see bitumen. We drove past Uluru on the way to Yulara where the only accomodation is for visiting the National Park that hosts the rocks. The camp site here is pretty good and there are plenty amenities, restaurants, shops and a hotel.

We were going to do the sunrise walk tomorrow and then climb Uluru but it is now 2AM, we will go at sunset instead and have a lazy day as we really do deserve it. Our treat when we arrived here was to share a pint of banana milk, it tasted like nectar, it was so good.

Em

Miles: 332
Time: 7 hours
Location: Click me!
Temp: 42c
Music:
Simon & Garfunkel - Definitive
Audio book - The Life of Pi, Yann Martel