Places We See

Here's a list and a bit of info on the places we see whilst on our tours.

Uluru

Kata Tjuta National Park: 280 miles (450km) southwest of Alice Springs. Ayers Rock/ Uluru, the world's second largest monolith and an Aboriginal sacred site is Australia's most famous natural landmark. Its fascinating with the Uluru people and its importance in dreamtime legend.

Kata Tjuta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olgas/ Kata Tjuta, a dramatic series of 36 dome-like rock formations which stand up to 1,701ft (546m) high and cover an area of 35km and like Uluru, produce an incredible light show at sunset, with crimsons turning to rusts, and pinks to mauve's.

Kings Canyon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kings Canyon is situated within the Watarrka National Park, and is a huge sandstone canyon 270m high.
Watarrka National Park is an important conservation area with rock holes and gorges providing refuge for over 600 species of plants and many native animals. The sheer red rock face of Kings Canyon soars over 100 metres above dense forests of palms, ferns and cycads; sheltering them from the surrounding desert conditions.

Lilla Community

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lilla Community -An Aborginal Community 10km from Kings Canyon offering many small (and large) projects for visiting groups to get involved with, to help this community become self sufficient.  It is also very fortunate they live on their land which hosts sacred sites, that they are happy to share with visiting Remote Tours' groups.

West MacDonnell Ranges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West MacDonnell Ranges: This ancient landscape boasts waterhols, groges, chasms, rivers, gaps and many other spectacular natural creations.  Such as Simpsons Gap,  Ellerey Creek Waterhole,  Ormiston Gorge, Fink River, Gosses Bluff....

Alice Springs

Alice Springs:  A town with a population of around 27,481 which was given its name by the waterhole discovered in 1871 by a Government Surveyor W. W. Mills.  Before white settlement Alice Springs was inhabited by the Arrernte Aboriginal people.  Mparntwe (mbarn-twa) is the Arrarnte word for Alice Springs.