miércoles, 17 de julio de 2013

Cairns

For us, Cairns seemed to be a great city. We have already left the Northern Territory, we are in Queensland. Flight ook about two hours. It's easy to manage a transport to the hostals or hotels (about 10 AU$) per person). Actually, our hostel included airport transfer. We stayed in Caravella Backpackers, quite a good hostel, even not perfect. There was some queue at reception... but they were quite helpful, helped us to choose where to go in the Coral Reef, which company... where to eat croc meat... dinner is included in the room, a light dish in a local pub with good atmosphere. There we found the second group of spainsh people we saw along our trip.


 



Urulu and Ayers Rock

Urulu, together with the Sydney's Opera, are probably the most known Australia's symbols Urulu is an enigmatic monolitic which changes its color depending on the suns location. It's brown on the midday hours and almost orange in the dawn and dusk, with red and purple colors. This hill is 350 meters high and its a secret place of the aborigens, the anangu.


   


 Acording to them, Urulu tells the story about two snakes who created the earth. We arrived Sydney and, inmediatly, we took a new flight aiming to Ayers Rock airport. We landed about 6 AM, surprisingly punctual... Quantas is a good company, not like British Airways. So we took next flight about 7.30.
The flight took about 3 hours, over the Outback. If you can, choose the seats on the left side on the plane. There, you'll have the best views of the Urulu. Better than any other trekking. You'll also be able to see the "Olgas". It was one of the most astonishing moments of the whole trip. In that moment, we finally understood that we were in Australia. Down under


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 Ayer's Rock airport is like a toy, those you can only see on the movies. It gets just two flights per day, on one only lane. There are free buses to the resorts, some minutes away. That area is well integrated into the landscape. There are many kinds of accomodations, from hostels to luxury hotels. We stayed on the YHA hostel, in a 4 people room, but just occupied by us and a japanese girl.