A Wallaby's World: Australian Outback!

The last of the trips around Australia had me in the middle of nowhere. I had six days in the Northern Territory, which I spent four of those exploring the outback and two days in Alice Springs. In the NT, aborigines are everywhere, since this area was more known as where many aboriginal people settled. The first days of exploring took me to the West Macdonnell Ranges. These were a good precursor to Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon. The three days after that were spent at Uluru, Kata-Tjuta, and Kings Canyon National Parks. These parks has impressive features, such as impressive colors of Uluru (Ayers Rock), domes as tall as 580 meters (Kata-Tjuta), and dynamic scenery and landscape (Kings Canyon). We spent our two nights camping and sleeping in swags, which are canvas sacks with a mattress and sleeping bag on the inside. It was surprisingly warm, which was good because nights dipped into upper 30s and lower 40s at night. On the last day, the opportunity to ride a camel came up, and I did not pass it up! Australia actually has the largest wild camel population in the world! It was a short ride, but still a fun one at that. My time in Alice Springs was spent at the Reptile Centre and on Anzac Hill, which is a hill devoted to war veterans. This hill overlooks Alice Springs. It was an ideal trip to get away from the hustle and bustle of exams back in Melbourne.