The Red Centre including - Uluru, Kata Tjuta & Kings Canyon. Episode 5: 4WD Australia series

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Our Fifth episode takes us across the QLD border into the NT via Australia's Longest Shortcut and into the Heart of the Country, the Red Centre! We explore Uluru - KataTjuta National park the best way hiking the Valley of the Winds & Circumnavigating Uluru before heading up to Kings Canyon for arguably the best day hike in the Red Centre!
Chapters:
Introduction 0:00
Australia's Longest Shortcut 01:49
We hit the dirt road crossing the border from Queensland into the Northern Territory and then onto the Plenty Highway. Bad conditions cause us some tyre problems along the way to Alice Springs. After a rest in Alice we head towards the centre staying overnight at Curtain Springs Station.
Kata Tujta (The Olga's)/The Valley of the Winds 05:49
We head out early to the Kata Tjuta Dunes Viewing area to witness a spectacular sunrise from Uluru casting onto the Olga's. We head into Kata Tjuta to hike the spectacular Valley of the Winds and Walpa Gorge before returning to the Ayers Rock Caravan Park.
Field of Light & Outback Bush Tucker 15:10
An art installation by Bruce Munro of 50,000 cables with stemmed LED lights is a spectacle to witness. We follow up the next day with a bushtucker demonstration, sampling Australian Desert Bush foods!
Uluru (Ayer's Rock) Circumnavigation 20:56
We arrive at Uluru for an amazing sunset at Australia's most famous rock before circumnavigating it's 9.4km Circumference spotting native birds and learning about the indigenous history and importance of the Rock to the local Anangu people. We then head to Kings Canyon Resort for the evening coupled with a breathtaking sunset.
Kings Canyon Rim Walk 30:45
Set in Watarrka National Park we undertake what may potentially be the best day hike in the Red Centre. The Rim walk starts with a steady climb to a high plateau through a city of Beehive like dome structures reaching a jaw dropping sheer cliff. We wander down through the gorge spotting wildlife amongst the ancient Cycad's. Definitely a highlight of our trip!
Redbank Gorge (West MacDonnell Ranges) 39:27
We head out on the unsealed Mereenie Loop Road through private Aboriginal Lands, sighting Willy Willy's or Dust Devils (Whirlwinds) along the way. We walk down into the gorge before setting up camp by the fire for the evening.
In the next episode.. 42:07
Join us on our next Adventure as we Explore the West MacDonnell Ranges and head into Alice Springs. We head north up the Simpson highway to the Top End via the Devil's Marbles, Bitter Springs and Nitmiluk before arriving into Kakadu, for a Wildlife spectacle unique to this part of the World!
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[@meyeuSingleMum99]

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Thank you, you too!

[@alissaburge6375]

Every summer gets the spectacular lightning storms in Uluru- Kata Tjuta and be careful not to hike with lightning strikes because you can get electrocuted especially when it rains any with the water conducts electricity easily. Lightning storms are fun to watch in the area of Yulara by the Ayers Rock Resort and the Ayers Rock campgrounds. Thunderstorms caused from heating of the surface of 50 degrees Celsius on the ground of the moisture from the tropical high pressure zones to develop heating of the atmosphere. The monsoonal moisture is coming from the north of Australia l Please bring water when you are out hiking around the Kata Tjuta The Olgas as known as The Valley of the Winds. I remembered we hiked around Uluru Ayers Rock and the aboriginals are discouraging not to climb Ayers Rock it is way too dangerous and many people got killed from falling while climbing the Rock. I loved Australia and I would want to go back and I want to go see the Fields of Lights and the sunset dinner in Uluru Ayers Rock. Australia is a beautiful country to visit.🇦🇺

[@GlobalTravelStories]

That’s a good inside tip. Luckily we were there in the winter time. Would highly recommend traveling in the winter next time around. Thanks for the info, hope you are well : )

[@MeganMarieT]

I’m convinced I need to go to Australia now. The scenery looks so pretty!

[@GlobalTravelStories]

You definitely should! It’s such a vast and diverse continent, worth exploring!

[@meyeuSingleMum99]

@@GlobalTravelStories Hi Happy Easter 🐇🐰👍🇦🇺🦘 Love you guys Travel Videos so very much.... Very Profesional

[@una6293]

Wish I'd had the time and opportunity to have visited Uluru and Kata Jduta when I was in Oz, hugely spiritual and spectacular places. Thanks as always for filming your time there and showing us it's beauty. The wild flowers are so lovely BTW! Safe and happy onward travels

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Thank you, it is amazing! And all I can say is that you should plan to return someday, it is worth the journey! Hope you are well! 😊

[@NatureAndOther]

Great video, and so beautiful scenery!

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Thank you! It’s a timeless landscape, I can only hope to capture it well 😊

[@romanandfizah]

Oh no 🙈 I’m sorry the tyre was tears. I’m glad you finally fixed it. Isn’t easy to drive in dirt road but very adventurous what you guys doing. Road in Australia pretty massive. Canyon reminds me of Utah . The footage is beautiful! Hope you guys having a great time in Queensland. Till see you again next week

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Thank you, the road there was terrible and tyre was absolutely destroyed as you saw! Luckily our last flat tyre 🤞. This was in Northern Territory about 2.5months ago, we are now in South Australia and it’s very cold down here. We have the next episode already on KZbin but I should have another one this week too. I’m glad you’re enjoying it! 😃

[@romanandfizah]

@@GlobalTravelStories you are very lucky had the last one. No pain no gain right . That’s part of the adventure Enjoy guys

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@@romanandfizah thank you 😊

[@SperS-222]

I feel lucky that I was able to go to the top of the cliff at 2018

[@GlobalTravelStories]

In Kings Canyon? They don’t really enforce the rules but people have died unfortunately on those cliffs. I had a friend who was guiding there a few years back and lost someone so we were pretty cautious.

[@SperS-222]

@@GlobalTravelStories Urulu … greating from Hungary

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Oh, yeah they stopped that because it was wearing the rock away and the indigenous people consider it a sacred sight. Just being in its presence is a magical experience. Glad you got to visit, say hello to Hungary for us, great country when we visited! 👋

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[@konservation6205]

Did you stop at King's Creek Station for camel burgers?

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Didn’t even know about it..

[@jessicafarrugia3448]

What time of year was this? Looks fantastic!

[@GlobalTravelStories]

This was August/September last year. Best time of the year to visit in my opinion!

[@nikkiross8872]

Diesel is $3.40 at the moment !

[@GlobalTravelStories]

That’s nuts!! It’s getting crazy everywhere at the moment, I’m sure the effects are being felt really strongly in remote Aus..

[@konservation6205]

Both Uluru and Mt Augustus are inselbergs, however Uluru is a true monolith, and Mt Augustus is a monocline. So talking true monoliths, Uluru is widely recognised in geological circles as the largest, as you first stated. 😊

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Yeah I felt that needed clarity, it’s a weird one because people put a blanket statement on “largest rock” but it’s a bit more complex than that.

[@konservation6205]

@@GlobalTravelStories yep, good job with it too.

[@konservation6205]

Did you head down to Boulia to take the Outback Way?

[@GlobalTravelStories]

Nah we actually cut through Urandangi from Mt Isa and took a crappy dirt road along the border on the NT side to reach the Plenty Hwy, was supposed to be a shortcut..

[@konservation6205]

@@GlobalTravelStories yeah, the Plenty Hwy/Outback Way. Interesting way to get there though! 😂 I haven't done that road, but did do the Sandover. We did a kind of mission trip to Ampilatwatja when I was 16. Cooked a bbq for 200! Those Outback 'roads' are VERY gnarly!

[@konservation6205]

Some things have definitely changed since I was last at Uluru. That bush foods presentation looks excellent!