G'day mates! We flew from Sydney to Ayers Rock. The plane was full. Apparently some 400,000 people a year fly 31/2 hours to see a rock in the middle of nowhere.
Even the plane is specially painted. The whole town is owned by one company. It has 4 hotels and a campground as well as it's own “town center”. It caters to all price ranges – from exorbitant to outrageous – but if you stop to think that everything has come by truck nearly 1000 miles to get here, I suppose it's not too bad. About 1200 people live here to support the tourist business.
All this because people want to see one rock. Actually there's more than one rock. This one, a mere 50 miles away, is Kata Tjuta, the old men. We went there for sunset.
The next morning, we got up at 4:00am to be at Ulurhu for sun rise.
We then walked all around the rock. About 6 miles, but well worth the effort. This morning it rained! It's a semi arid environment but sometimes it doesn't rain for up to 7 years at a time.
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