Uluru and Kata Tjuta

We took a detour from Coober Pedy (2 days drive each way) to visit the world’s largest monolith.

Sunset

We arrived in Yulara (the resort ‘town’ by the national park) late afternoon. We quickly set up and went out to see the sunset on the rock and the orange/pink colour that the rock turns during the sunset and sunrise.

Sunrise

The next morning, the kids and I got up early to see the sunrise. Unfortunately, it was cloudy and we missed it by 5 minutes so I don’t have pink photos to show you…

The Base Walk

After sunrise, we headed over to the rock to do the 10 km base walk around it. There were a few interesting caves, rock art and waterholes to see along the way.

Flies

Of course, no visit to the outback is complete without a ton of flies bothering you…

Field of Lights

In the evening, we booked a trip to see the Field of Lights art installation by British artist Bruce Munro. He used over 50,000 lights connected with fibre optics that change colours over a large field. Unfortunately, it didn’t really come out in the photos below, but you can see and read more about it here.

Kata Tjuta

The next day we went for a couple of walks in the other rock formation in the park: Kata Tjuta. That morning a polar front came through and it was really cold (especially in the wind!). The highest temperature it reached that day was only 9C (48F) but with the windchill, it felt like only 3C (37F)!

Kata Tjuta is really lovely with a couple of gorges and valleys to walk through.

There are also a couple of nice viewing areas to see Kata Tjuta from a distance:

And a nice view of Uluru from Kata Tjuta: