We arrived in Alice Springs in the campervan, and I never thought I would ever perceive Alice Springs as a place of Civilisation, but for a few minutes I did. We parked the camper outside the Hostel, and the other 2 was happy to sleep in it for one more night, but I wanted my shower and a nice bed for the busy day tomorrow which consisted of us cleaning the big mess and handing the keys back over to the campervan hire company. I had the longest shower of my lif...

We left the free campsite called Curtin Springs at 6am, which rivalled William Creek, in having the worst showers in living memory. Ants, Crickets, Spiders, Mosquitoes, this place had the lot. Having stopped on the way to cook some breakfast in what was soon becoming an uninhabitable cooking area, in the back of our disgusting campervan, we arrived at Kings Canyon at 10am and did the 7km walk around the rim of the Canyon. The first 15 minutes of the walk consis...

Just before I start, there is a few quick things to go through. Uluru is the proper name for Ayers Rock, and the Kata Tjuta are usually known as the Olgas. But most of the tourists seem to refer these famous things in the Uluru Kata Tjuta national park as 'Ayers Rock' and the 'Olgas', but I'll probably just keep using various variations throughout this blog. No doubt by the end Ayers Rock will be referred to as 'That bludy big Rock'. Kata Tjuta is actually pron...