Alice to Adelaide Day 1

4am and my alarm went off. We showered and packed our beds and were ready for 4.45am pick up or so we thought. It turns out that we had forgot to change our clocks and there was a 30 minute time difference which meant we were really early, oh well at least it wasn’t the other way around.
We sat outside in the dark waiting for our tour guide but it was nice and cool. I was a little surprised to see loads of aboriginal people walking the streets at that time of the morning but there was a security guard on site to stop the aborigines hanging around the hostel.



Our Adventure tours bus eventually turned up and continued to make some other pick ups. With everyone on board we made our way to the first destination which was Kings Canyon, 7 hours away. It was a long drive but it gave us a chance to get to know people on the bus and have a snooze.
We arrived at Kings Canyon and were faced with a steep climb, fortunately it was a lot cooler than the day before which meant we could do the long walk around it. We checked out the Ampitheatre, Lost City and the Garden of Eden.



Max our tour guide (a young, enthusiastic lad from Adelaide) told us about how the aborigines were able to tell which plants they could get water out of and how they believe the canyon was formed. After 2.5 hours of walking we had been all the way round and had enjoyed the fantastic views. We then continued to make our way back to the minibus and to our campsite which was 4 hours away. Once we arrived at Yulara we all chipped in with preparing and cooking dinner.



Adam and I were very impressed with the fresh food that was supplied and tucked into our bbq of kangaroo steaks, sausages, beef steaks, salads etc. As it had been raining a little (very unusual) we couldn’t sleep outside but were happy to stay in one of the permanently erected tents which contained 2 single beds and a small table.