This is the last full day on this trip, tomorrow I return to the sounds of Sydney. The plan is to go Namatjira Drive, the road to Alice Springs, stopping at all the attractions you can. With what I get up early and breakfast at the hotel / hostel / camping. I find that in the "shop" can be ordered from the hotel Takeaway sandwiches, and even to carry and put meat on the barbecue. With what I ask for a sandwich, and then dedicate myself to making calls to find accommodation for the night. This is the only day I had booked a room not knowing what area to spend the night. Call a couple of places that look good, but all are full. At the end find a campsite on the outskirts of Alice Springs with shared room twenty Australian dollars. Dirt cheap, it gives me a bad feeling, but I do not want to make more calls and decide to make a reservation.
After filling the tank of the car just enough to get to Alice Springs, that gasoline is so expensive in this part remote, I pay the accommodation of these nights past. To my surprise and disgust the locals want to pay the entire room, or two beds, a total of $ 60 per night. I insist that the phone had assured me that the price was $ 30, but they have nothing in writing, and had not given me any written confirmation. These people are a demon. The place was half empty and not lose money with my stay. Moreover, if I know that the price is $ 60 per night I would have thought twice. At the end let me pay 30 per night, and go the hell out of here. The room was the worst of the whole trip, and then I read reviews of this place, Glen Helen, saying that the price is expensive for the service they give. I say this. Will not see me here anymore.
you travel. Are before 10, the sun is not, and still the soft light of morning. The road is completely empty, and at my side lies the valley with its trees in the stream. This valley is a special valley. Apart from the rivers run dry, the rivers are cutting the mountains. The valley runs east to west, but rivers run north to south. That is, the "valley" has not been created by rivers but by some orogenic movements of ancient times. Maybe what happened is that the mountains rose so slowly that the river did not change their course, and simply creating mountains eroded gorges through which they pass. Each of these gorges water accumulates, possibly because the bedrock let there be no groundwater, and becomes an oasis where all animals. For this reason all the throats of the place are very special places for Aboriginal people, and some of them are sacred. Later, in Sydney, I learned that these throats were a source of serious conflicts between indigenous and western settlers because the settlers were determined to turn the area into pasture for cattle. In times of drought, the cows went to the oasis, turning to mud and thirsty killing other animals. The cows at the end ended dying of thirst as well as the water had turned into mud, and the Aborigines had to kill cows of the settlers because it was not anything else to eat. Add to this the settlers and cattle were determined to go to sacred sites without permission, and the trouble is.
But this morning all is peace and tranquility. Stop the car and walk through the trees, enjoying the silence of the morning.
The day passes slowly and takes me to some of these gorges, where I discover something of the wildlife from a few tourists or find out what's around, apart from the odd wallaby. The place I liked was "Standley Chasm" a place where one of the rivers has created a very narrow throat and vertical walls soaring. I arrived shortly after noon when the sun's rays reach the bottom of the throat. Following the upstream course I see more and more gorges, less spectacular but overall wonderful. I think this has been done by rivers most of his time have been dry, and I realize that time must have elapsed to reach this state.
The other place I wanted to see was "Simpsons Gap, Alice Springs and about, but he wanted to see the sunset, when the wallabies come to drink. With what I do for a walk in the semi-desert area, and reading posters walk Cassie Hill learn of the vegetation of the area and their uses by the natives. For example, the roots of certain trees are places frequented by edible caterpillars, and leaves of other trees are used for medicines and teas.
the end I get to "Simpsons Gap" at the desired time. Tourists have been replaced by wallabies that make your dinner with the dry grass of the place. Discover a wallaby with two heads, adult and baby peeking out from the stomach pouch. Total Australian experience.
arrival at the campsite late at night and discover that this camp is wonderful. The room has four beds, all empty, with refrigerator, bathroom and television. And all this for $ 20! So glad to end the holiday.
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