Uluru
Trip Start
Nov 10, 2003
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Trip End
Jun 30, 2004
Ayers Rock, Australia
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Our first sighting of Ularu from the plane was magical, it also looked enormous and first doubts about climbing popped into my head.
Once on the ground we went to our accomodation and jumped straight into the pool. Feeling the effects of the previous nights activities we decided that we would just be lazy for the rest of the day and have an early night. We managed it and at 4.45 am the following day we got up, had coffee, got on bus, woke up and headed off for the Sunrise tour. Once we were at the viewing area we watched the sunrise and the rock turned lots of different colours from grey to brown, purple, orange then red. Spectacular. Now, we had planned to climb as I mentioned earlier. We had been told numerous times that it's not the done thing anymore as it goes against the abo's wishes but we thought we would give it a go. Well, I got about 50 meters, sh*t myself (sorry dad) and went back down. J got a bit further than I did but the bad spirits made him turn back. So instead we took a nice long base walk which was very good. We took loads of pics and I nearly trod on the worlds 2nd most deadly snake. We hopped on a bus back to the resort at about 10am and jumped on our flight back to Sydney shortly after. We loved Ayers Rock, and were very glad that we managed to fit it in to our last week in Australia.
