So I threw up last night from excessive beer consumption, as we all no, my stomach of steel only allows this sort of behaviour once every two or so years. Sad to have missed dear public bar yet again I think caroline and i made up for a couple of weeks last night.
Two days ago we got up at 4 30 am to make a 5am bus. We did a one night tour to kings canyon (amaaaaaazing) uluru and kata tjuta. There were fourteen of us on the bus plus our guide with dreadlocks. We drove through the town at the center of australia which was a strange feeling, being that far away from any ocean.
We went to kings canyon first and climbed heart attack hill, a freaking million rocky steps. we loved it, saaa beautiful. This is cazz preparing for the daunting climb ahead..
The few from the top was breathtaking, honestly did not want to leave. the colours were so so vivid. the reds and the blue sky and the green thanks to recent rain. This photo really doesn't do it justice but uploading is painfully slow so i cant handle uploading a larger one.
After Kings Canyon we drove to our campsite, which thankfully had an outdoor kitchen and proper bathrooms with warmish showers. There were permanent tents and there was a fire place. We also went to a lookout the see the sunset and uluru.. we were pretty far away and the sun was setting behind us when we looked at uluru so we went back to the campsite because caroline was eager to start the fire. We had a feast of kangaroo meat and camel sausages... turns out there is something like a million wild camels in central australia. they were yummy. We went to bed early because we were getting up at 5.30 to see sunrise at uluru. There was the option of sleeping in a swag under the stars or sleeping in the tents. Stringer, our guide suggested the swags would actually be warmer so we decided to do that. It was bloody freezing!!! Although lovely sleeping under the stars. The sleeping bags were awful and apparently theyre summer sleeping bags. it was 0 degreesish so it was hell. i didnt fall asleep until stringer got up (about half an hour before we were meant to get up) to prepare stuff for us. Hahah this is cazz in her swag.
So uluru is out of control. Like out of control massive. we'd both seen billions of photos of it but it doesnt capture the magnitude of this massive rock chilling out in a flat desert. its something like 9.4 kilometers around the base of uluru and we had two hours to walk it. no one in our group decided to climb it. which i was glad about.
Those are two of the girls on our bus, German Lisa and Danish Louise.
after uluru we went to kata tjuta, where the sacred men's business takes place.We're allowed to walk through the middle though. you feel so so small and insignificant as the natural environment is so overwhelming.The whole time caroline and i kept saying to each other, every australian should come here. and see this. it's so frustrating how small these photos make it seem.
On the way home (roughly 500km) we drove past the underwear tree which was the highlights of the bus ride. Apparently it had started a couple of weeks ago with a pair or two and was not covered in peoples dirty knickers, so of course caroline and i had to leave ours there. The cars that drove past beeped at us and congratulated our efforts.
We got back just after 6 last night. then went out with the younger people from the group and our guide for $5 dinner at another backpackers and drank far too much beer. Cazz and i ended up staying at the trashed tour guide mansion (used to be a brothel apparently, lots of small rooms) this morning has been an epic struggle. in the supermarket i had to rest in the pasta isle, everyone should try using pasta as a pillow, very effective. so we're back at our hostel (a different one from the first few nights as this one is free with the tour we did...) there are some lovely irish and english boys in our dorm, one shaved his head while we were resting in my bunk... we watched from above being creepy as per usual. but they dont seem scared of us...yet. i was being a paparazzo and caroline told me it was inproper however, here they are.
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