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Today I have to get up early for the travel to Ayers Rock Resort. A 500 km travel by coach, first southwards on the Stuart Highway then to the west. For the benefit of who is hungry or needs to go to the toilet the coach halts in a few places, e.g. a camel farm where one can also spend AUD5 for a five minute ride. There was also a stop just for taking pictures of the Mt. Connor.
While you won't see any live kangaroos along the street because they are active in the evening and night when it is cooler, you will see quite a lot of dead ones run over by the trucks. The land is owned by kettle farmers. They are large and yet host few kettle (e.g. 4500 km² for 2600 kettle) because they need such a vast space to find enough food in this semi-arid region.
An hour after having checked in at the hotel in the Ayers Rock Resort the coach for the tour to Kata Tjuta/The Olgas arrives. First stop is a platform from which one has a good overview.
Next is a walk in between the rounded hills (Kata Tjuta means "many heads"). Though only 2.6km (1.3 km into the Walpa Gorge and the same on the way back) long, it was not easy under the hot sun - there was few shadow even within the hills - to do it quickly. These hills were formed by ... at a time alot of water flowed into central Australia. Most of it eroded away but these hills remained.
Those four young ladies blockig the access to the platform at the end of the walk, waiting for a picture to be taken tempted me to take a picture of them too.
This was followed by a stop at another place from which one has a good over, and thus foto opportunity. Furthermore this places seems to be used to have a dinner while watching the sunset at Kata Tjuta/The Olgas. Wine- and champagnerglasses were already there while some food - all covered so I could not see what kind of food - was brought in by waiters just when my coach drove away.
Food and drink at sunset was part of my tour too, but it was at Uluru/Ayers Rock and it was no dinner but just (literally) peanuts and there was no chapagne, just wine and lemonade. Each tour offered their guest something similar and there were a lot of tours with a lot of tourists.
The thing to do was to watch and take pictures of how Uluru/Ayers Rock changes color while the sun goes down and so I did take a lot of pictures too of which you can see a few here.
