We left Alice and began the long drive towards Kings Canyon, despite looking so close on the map its actually about a 5 hour drive there! We left Alice quite late in the morning so we free camped at a roadhouse called Mt Ebeneezer. While we were settling in an Aboriginal man walked into the camping area and a white bloke who was in his caravan shot out and started shouting at him like he was a dog to get out! We were a bit shocked by this, and while we have been travelling through Oz we have noticed a big divide between the aboriginal people and the white people.

The next day we were supposed to get up early but we slept in and then drove for ages towards Kings Canyon, about 20kms out we had a pee stop and noticed a van having difficulty starting so we went over to see if the people were ok, it was 2 german blokes and their van was overheating every time they started up the engine, luckily we were able to tow them to the Kings Canyon resort so they could get help there. We got to Kings Canyon and it was pretty hot, we decided against doing the top walk and went on a pretty walk throughout the canyon instead, it was really nice and we saw this lizard with the longest tail ever!!

Time was getting on and we left to find a free camp about 70kms outside Kings Canyon and settled there for the night. The next day we had to set off super early to get to Ulluru, it was about a 4 hour drive. As we were driving we could see this big rock sticking out the ground, we were convinced in was Ulluru but a quick glance in the lonely planet told us it was Mount Connor which is a table top mountain on the way to Ulluru, we took a pic anyway and then continued to Ulluru. It wasnt long before we could see the real Ulluru looming ahead, it looked quite magnificent and red just sticking out of the nothingness around it. In the distance we could see the Olgas which are another red rock formation about 40kms from Ulluru. We were quite surprised to see a full on resort at Ulluru complete with big supermarket! We had to pay $25 each to get into Ulluru National Park. We drove to the Olgas first for some pics and then went back to the Ulluru visitors centre which was really interesting, it said about the Anunga people who own the land the rock is on and the history. Everywhere we looked there were messages urging people not to climb the rock as it is disrespectful to the Anunga people and not only that..it is really dangerous aswell, a few people have died! There was a 'sorry' book in the centre too which people who had taken a bit of the rock as a souvineer had returned it as they felt it had given them bad luck!!

So we then went to Ulluru itself and decided we would do the 9.5km walk around the base, it was quite hot but we were determined to do it. We walked pass the place where people were climbing up Ulluru, we thought not many people would do it but there were loads of people srabbling up and down it! The walk was lovely all around the rock there were lots of holes and it was really interesting, we couldnt take alot of pics because there were alot of sacred sights for the Anunga people and they dont like people taking pics of them. The walk only took 2 hours and we were quite pleased with ourselves when we were finished! We were really sweaty and although we had originally planned to free camp we went to the campsite on the resort instead which was quite expensive! But the shower was very much appreciated!!!! We didnt have long til the sunset so after our showers we went straight back into Ulluru and parked up to watch the sunset and Ulluru change to a bright red colour, it was really good!

The next day we got up at 4.45am and went back to Ulluru to watch the sunrise, it was dark as we got there and you could see the shape of the rock against the starlit sky it was lovely. Soon more and more people turned up and it began to get light. There was a really funny Japenese woman who was having a go at people when they got in the way of her pics! We watched the sun change Ulluru again and then set off!!!