6:15 Start of the tour! Drove out to Kata Tjuta - the Olga's as they were known by the Europeans, walked around there, pretty impressing - it's about the same height as Uluru (Ayer's Rock) but way bigger, but less well known I guess. Beautiful place to be though! After that drove out to see the sunset at Uluru, which was pretty neat as well, guess everyone has about 300 similar pictures of the Rock now though.
So the next morning we wake up at 4:15, to get everyone ready to be at sunrise in time. Man, incredible how bloody busy it was. Reckon if you're small you would've missed the huge rock because of all the people standing in front of you looking at it! After sunrise did the 'base-walk' which gives you a lot of different views of Uluru besides from the 'regular' postcard look. Had an aboriginal guided tour as well, interesting explanation about special cultural events taking place at Uluru, giving more understanding as to why it's special to them.
On to Kings Canyon! Raced Sam (yet another crazy frenchman) up "heart attack hill" - the first 50 steps at least...then we were both done for :P another good walk, with beautiful views out into the valley, and with remnants of the old inland sea visible in the rock (you could see the waves, seriously) and visited the Garden of Eden...doesn't look anything like I'd expected it to. ;) After that a long drive to Marla, allowing us to play a nice little game of "Guess the Movie Soundtrack" - got in third...I hate losing, still...
Had an awesome couple of nights in swags (rainproof-australian-sleeping bags) sleeping under the stars, waking up by an annoying light sometimes (yes, it was the moon). One of the tourguides (when staying with other group in the same place) brought a guitar, so I got to play a moonlight serenade, with a huge group of listeners whose faces I never saw. Pretty fun. Met some of them the next day; "See that guy - he was the one playing the guitar". Lol
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