Alice Springs
09.08-12.08
In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by a sea of red sand, lies a town called Alice. Yeah, exactly.. who the f*** is Alice? :) Alice Springs, known to the world as the most famous outback town in Australia used to be a simple telegraph station on the Overland Telegraph Line only 125 years ago. Its main attractions are a mainly dry Todd River, or crystal clear Todd river as there’s no water at all most of the year, that hosts a famous Henley-on-Todd Regatta. Holding a series of boat races on the dry river bed – they say that if you see the river flow three times, you’re a local – is a typically Australian light-hearted denial of reality. The boats are all bottomless: the crew’s legs stick through and they simply run down the course. The event is cancelled if there’s any water in the river :) The other thing worth to see in Alice Springs is the Anzac Hill and its Lion Walk. A simple little hill that seems nothing but a hump as you look up on the hillside, but unfolds an amazing view from the top over the whole city nestled between the MacDonnell ranges and endless deserts. But Alice has one more important attraction – a certain rock about 400 km southwest of the town. The Ghan arrives here twice a week from Darwin and Adelaide and brings a trainload of tourists heading down to Uluru for their outback experience of a lifetime, and Alice is the gateway.
But before we do the same and hop on one of the many tour buses driving that way every day, we take a day off and relax in Alice. I can still feel the rickety-rockety train moving along its termite proof tracks and my bottom is probably still in the shape of a Daynighter seat. A little shake up is more than welcome, and I’ll give you a prize if you come up with a better idea than we did – an outback camel ride, together on the back of a one-hump camel. I told you, the train just wasn’t hard enough :D These big desert animals are absolutely gorgeous. Living in a farm just off the MacDonnell Ranges, they take you on a beautiful one-hour ride at the sunset. Slowly but surely, as the sun sets behind the hillside, they move through the red desert landscape with wild kangaroos hopping around in pairs stopping for a tick once after every few leaps to look back at the camel train. Great adventure! Plus did you know: Australia is the country with most camels in the world!?
In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by a sea of red sand, lies a town called Alice. Yeah, exactly.. who the f*** is Alice? :) Alice Springs, known to the world as the most famous outback town in Australia used to be a simple telegraph station on the Overland Telegraph Line only 125 years ago. Its main attractions are a mainly dry Todd River, or crystal clear Todd river as there’s no water at all most of the year, that hosts a famous Henley-on-Todd Regatta. Holding a series of boat races on the dry river bed – they say that if you see the river flow three times, you’re a local – is a typically Australian light-hearted denial of reality. The boats are all bottomless: the crew’s legs stick through and they simply run down the course. The event is cancelled if there’s any water in the river :) The other thing worth to see in Alice Springs is the Anzac Hill and its Lion Walk. A simple little hill that seems nothing but a hump as you look up on the hillside, but unfolds an amazing view from the top over the whole city nestled between the MacDonnell ranges and endless deserts. But Alice has one more important attraction – a certain rock about 400 km southwest of the town. The Ghan arrives here twice a week from Darwin and Adelaide and brings a trainload of tourists heading down to Uluru for their outback experience of a lifetime, and Alice is the gateway.
But before we do the same and hop on one of the many tour buses driving that way every day, we take a day off and relax in Alice. I can still feel the rickety-rockety train moving along its termite proof tracks and my bottom is probably still in the shape of a Daynighter seat. A little shake up is more than welcome, and I’ll give you a prize if you come up with a better idea than we did – an outback camel ride, together on the back of a one-hump camel. I told you, the train just wasn’t hard enough :D These big desert animals are absolutely gorgeous. Living in a farm just off the MacDonnell Ranges, they take you on a beautiful one-hour ride at the sunset. Slowly but surely, as the sun sets behind the hillside, they move through the red desert landscape with wild kangaroos hopping around in pairs stopping for a tick once after every few leaps to look back at the camel train. Great adventure! Plus did you know: Australia is the country with most camels in the world!?
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