Outback Adventure 2019

Day 10

Uluru - Kata Tjuta - Field of Light

Everything starts early in the Centre! The National Park opens at 5.30am. The “peak hour” is between 5.30 and 6.30am and it applies to everything from roads to toilet blocks!
We woke at 5.45 am to go watch the sunrise at Uluru. The light had already started and so we hurriedly got our stuff in the Disco and hit the road. We had decided that we would watch the sunrise from the same location as we watched it set the night before. That way we would actually get to see the sunrise rather than just colours. We made it in time to set up our go-pro time lapse cameras and settle in for the show. It didn’t disappoint! Was a spectacular sunrise and was a great start to our day!

We weren’t heading back to the van either after the sky show. We left the lookout at 7.30 to head out to Kata Tjuta to walk the Valley of the Winds walk. It’s a 7.4km round trip that will close in high temps and high winds. Given the forecast was for another beautiful 35 degree day......we wanted to get our walk done well before we got anywhere near that temperature!

The Valley of the Winds walk is a Grade 4 hike. 7.4kms of mostly loose rocks and beautiful vistas of towering rock formations, big blue skies (although some fluffy clouds early on) and more bloody flies! The walk should take you 4 hours all up. We did it in just over 2 hours!

Some of the rocks are so tall- over 200m higher than Uluru is. Some look like rocky road pieces, some like peanut brittle. All quite spectacular!

Returning to the Disco, we headed back towards Yulara and stopped in at the Kata Tjuta sunrise/sunset spot for a look at the whole and continued.

On our way we called in at the Cultural Centre so that Cayla could pick up her freshly painted artwork that she bought. The artist is an Anangu lady that Cayla watched paint the picture she wanted. Quite special.

We then headed back to the van for some down time, lunch and a rest - it was a busy morning.

Tonight we experienced The Field Of Lights. We were bussed out to the ‘secret location ‘ to watch the sunset looking over Uluru and surrounds with a few drinks and nibbles. Once the sun clocked off for the day, the field below us was transformed into a field of light from 50,000 hand blown glass lights .
Leaving our drinks behind (sadly) we were then free to wander the paths in and amongst all the lights for a lovely end to the day.

Tomorrow we plan another sunrise at Uluru from the actual sunrise lookout vantage point.