Saturday, 9 November 2013

On the Road to Alice Springs


Our next destination was Mataranka. Given the now limited time we had to get to Alice Springs due to Josh’s departure for work on September 14, we planned to get a few kilometres behind us.  We chose Mataranka as a stop, some 500km south and figured the hot springs would be worth a visit after a long drive. A pretty spot to rest our weary bones. 



Then a quick stopover in Tennant Creek for the night and a brief visit to the Devils’ Marbles  before completing a long 3-day drive to Alice. 



We had covered some 1400 km through the desert landscape which was surprisingly vegetated and quite different to what we were expecting. The red sands of the Centre were as vivid as we had imagined, but we had seen some indigenous landscape art from communities around Alice and Uluru which we really didn’t understand until we got there. Arriving in Alice was a relief for all after such a long, hot journey. 

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