Australia's Red Center

 

 

08/11/2000: Arrival in Alice Springs - Visit of the city's Desert Park

Alice Springs - view from Anzac Hill

Caro in Alice Springs .... it's freezing (and we were not ready for that after the tropical city of Darwin!!)

Alice Springs' desert park: an interesting encounter with a moloch

... another good looking Australian

Of course: a red kangoroo

Seb - desperatly trying to have a kangoroo taking the right position for the perfect shot.

Here is the perfect shot !!

 

08/12/2000: First day of our Red Center tour ... and first view of the myth - Ayers Rock

Caro - 65 Km from Ayers Rock

In the Kata Tjuta National Park, the "Valley of the winds walk" in the Olgas (amazing mountains in the middle of the flat desert)

The Olgas - definitely one of my favorite spot !

Inside the Olgas: the valley of the winds

amazing shapes

Caro and Seb, in the valley of the winds

Ayers Rock Sunset:

Ayers Rock in Uluru ... nothing to say ... just look !

Sunset on Ayers Rock

Caro in front of Ayers Rock - the sun is coming down behind us (see the shadow of Seb while he's taking the picture)

 

08/13/2000: The amazing climb of Ayers Rock just before the sunrise

The fisrt part of the Ayers Rock climb

Seb and Caro on the steepest part of the climb

Almost at the top ...

The olgas - view from the TOP OF AYERS ROCK !!

Here we are ... 348 meters later ....it's just a little windy up here !!

Caro on the top of Ayers Rock (in front of the Olgas)

 For lunch, a last view of both the Olgas and Ayers Rock

An amazing view: Ayers Rock on the left and the Olgas on the right

 

 

08/14/2000: The sunrise from the top of Kings Canyon

Sunrise on the lost city

Caro - looking down at the stunning Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon

The flat desert all around ...

At the bottom of Kings Canyon: the Garden of Eden

 

08/15/2000: Visit of the Palm Valley ... after a bumpy ride !!

Our 4WD bus .... just hang on !!

The palm valley

Caro in the Palm Valley

Caro and Seb ... don't forget that this is the middle of winter !

Looking down at the palm valley

One of the valley inhabitants

The amphitheatre - looking at 360 degrees

 

08/16/2000: Last day in the red center

View of Gosse Bluff

Last shot in the Western Macdonnell Ranges

 

The team !!

 

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