I will be speaking in more detail in the next section about my previous trip to Uluru (Ayres Rock), and the areas surrounding it. This was my second visit to Kata Tjuta National Park, the home of Uluru, and this time I had a very clear idea up front of exactly what Eloise and I wanted to get out of the experience. We had no intention of following an organised tour as it climbed the rock or of traipsing along after a guide as he explained every little detail of Ul...

We had to be up at a ridiculously early time this morning to prepare for the long day in front of us, so early in fact that I hadn't previously been aware that such a time of the morning existed. On the way out of town on the coach, we passed probably the most optimistic tourist attraction I've ever seen in my life, in terms of initial cost against any possible return - the so-called Min Min encounter. Opened in April 2000, this ultra modern attraction set somebo...