And so we come to journey’s end in Alice Springs. Amazing that while the actual trip was only a fortnight long, it took me twice as long to blog about it all!

But all good things must end, so next time I’ll be taking you somewhere much closer to home.

Our last stop before heading into civilisation, was Kings Canyon, where we did the Rim Walk on a cold, foggy morning. There were lots of interesting rock formations though, albeit on a smaller scale, and lots of glorious red sandstone.

Actually, much of it looks to me like a mini version of the Bungle Bungles in Western Australia, except this one is much more accessible.

In the Territory there are a lot of stretches of long, straight road. This one at least goes somewhere (ie. to Uluru).

Not a lot of people know that there’s a third much forgotten monolith after Uluru and Kata Tjuta – Mount Conner. Our tour guide nicknamed it Fooluru since tourists often mistaken it for the other rock – at least from a distance.

Funnily enough, the local Aboriginals tend to give this rock a bit of a miss, too. It’s a place of bad vibes, apparently. It’s also on private land so there’s nary a tourist facility in sight aside from a roadside lookout.

What does the Australian desert look like? Something like this:

Dried up lake, spinifex, mulga, and red, red earth.