Tuesday 18 September 2007

The Northern Territory

Two weeks ago we went to The Northern Territory.We flew from Sydney to Darwin, hired a car there and headed down to Kakadu National Park, Kathrine, Alice Springs and amazing Uluru and Kata Tjuta National Park. It took us 6 day and we enjoyed every minute of this short trip.


Darwin Airport










Toyota Corolla that we hired, the automatic transmition was very new for us and bit tricky :)


Driving on the left was a bit shock but we got used to it quite quickly, apart from the fact that when we wanted to turn, instead of using the blinkers, our front glass has been cleaned :)


Shopping before we went bush... :)




Darwin park


Darwin City Aboriginal man having a siesta in the park...

A way to one beautiful beach in Darwin
That beach




Sunset at the beach


Mindil Beach


Mindil Beach Sunset Market
First night in a campsite "Shady Glenn"

East point reserve


We hit the road to wards Kakadu!

Burned forest - traditional aboriginal protection against more destructive fires.
Road trains are in NT everywhere, this one had 4 trailers.
Huge termit hills are along the road very often
Kakadu Entrance
Aboriginal rock painting at Ubirr



Sunset near Yellow water
A night in campsite`s bar ..... no comment :-)


The next morning we joined a cruise on Yellow water billabong and South Alligator river. We saw plenty of animals

Gravel road to Gunlom waterfalls
and our car is not clean as before
It was dry period, so the falls are a bit dry as well


A way on the top .... it was really hot.








Another site of aboriginal rock paintings in Nourlangie






Crocodiles were in Kakadu everywhere and the warnings are not just in English
River crossing to Arnhemland, which completely under Aboriginal administration


Lucie in bush