2017 Road Trip

We spent 12 days - destination Uluru - travelling via Mildura to Broken Hill, to Port Augusta, then to Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, and then to Uluru. We spent 3 days at Uluru and Kata Tjuta, and then a day side trip to Kings Canyon on the way back to Alice Springs to fly home.
All up we covered around 4,500 kilometres in a couple of rented Nissan XTrail vehicles.

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to Mildura

Our first stop along the way - Mildura located on the mighty Murray River.

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to Broken Hill

A place of 'legend' - located on the Silver City Highway, and 'Capital' of the outback, location of Mad Max films.

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to Port Augusta

Located at the top of Spencer Gulf and the "crossroad" of Australia being at the junction of major rail and road networks between the East and West.

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to Coober Pedy

The Opal capital of the world, and the land of broken dreams and countless holes in the ground!

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to Alice Springs

A "Town like Alice". Centre of Australia. How can you not visit?

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to Uluru

Australia's red 'heart', in the middle of a red landscape. The goal of the trip.

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to Kata Tjuta

Perhaps even more impressive than Uluru. A mystic place - and location of Pitjantjatjara Dreamtime legends. The name means "many heads".

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to Kings Canyon

Not just large red rocks this time - but a huge hole over 100 metres deep. (perhaps Uluru got scooped out of this hole??)

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Final Day

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