The Red Center

We drove out of Chambers Pillar on the way to Uluru, free camped a couple of nights on some roadside stays and ended up getting to Yulara yesterday via the Lasseter Highway. Yulara is basically a resort town next to Uluru with the whole place set up like a resort, a few hotels, cabins, camp grounds and a caravan park, that's is where we are. There are luxury tents here with a view of the rock for $3800 for the two nights!!!!
We headed out to the rock this arvo to take the quintessential sunset shots of the place. The experience of the differing colours as the sun goes down is amazing and took a heap of photos. A great night. The next day we went to the rock again to do the base walk, a track that circumnavigates Uluru and is about 10k in length. An excellent walk that included a few detours into small gorges ( see link here on YouTube ). We wanted to climb up the rock but it was closed due to high winds up top. Most of the base walk is pretty, pity you can't take photo's. The aboriginals have signs up for about two thirds of the walk telling you not to take photos due to the place you are at being a sacred men's or women's site!! Wish they showed me the same respect when they stole gear out of my sacred site, the car! We had an excellent day today and are off to the Olgas tomorrow to do it all again :-) until then .............