Missy Skoog’s visit to Ayers Rock (Uluru), Australia

Ayers Rock is one of the most impressive landmarks in Australia. A huge chunk of sandstone and a ‘true’ monolith, it resides in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Ayers Rock is located down towards the southwest corner of the Northern Territory and close to the geographic centre of Australia.

The rock is huge, jutting up about 350m from its barren surrounds. And more interestingly, Ayers Rock extends even further than this amount below ground. Although there are other, similar entities to Ayers Rock – most notably the nearby Olgas and Mount Augustus in Western Australia – it is the only singular monolith with its composition.

A World Heritage site, Ayers Rock also goes by the Aboriginal name of Uluru. Aboriginal tribes were living in the area 10,000 years ago. White men did not come onto the scene until the 1870s, when William Gosse named it for Henry Ayers, the then-South Australia Chief Secretary. Ayers Rock is sometimes incorrectly written as Ayres Rock, Ayes Rock, Ares Rock, Eyers Rock, Eyres Rock, Aires Rock and Airs Rock. The Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals own the land around and about Ayers Rock today.

Beautiful aboriginal woman showing us symbols in the sand drawing
"on" Uluru
"the bush"
Punu – trees
Puti – shrubs
Tjulpun-tjulpunpa – flowers
Ukiri – grasses
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Close up of one section of Uluru
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Morning sunrise tour to Uluru.  Rose on the opposite side of the rock.  Amazing!
My favorite sales rep from Travel2 Ward!
Entered into the Australian Tourism Hall of Fame, Sounds of Silence offers the best of the Red Centre distilled into four magical hours. An evening of dining under the sparkling outback sky
Sounds of Silence
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Me with the president of Travel2
I told them they were all hunks.  As I was walking away the one man said I should be careful what I say or I would have to stay in the bush with him.  RUN!
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Traditional dance
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Little friend
Camel riding at sunrise is very popular.  Although this was at night..just thought you might like to no that.
Cutest cowboy on the ranch
sunset at Camel farm
Yee-haw!  Having a great time at the Camel farm!
We are defiantly not bush woman!
Rocking the outback hat!

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