Here we are on the fourth day and second day in the middle of the desert in Central Australia.
Today woke up at 4:00 am in the morning to start our wonderful tour into the outback.
the night in the hostel was not the best because the air conditioning worked in fits and starts, mingling with the smell of insect repellent! Returning in the morning, we expect a 24 seat minibus, but we are only eight daring to face the heat of the desert: two Dutch women, we and two pairs respectively Polish and English, this meant three seats on each bus and the ability to completely lie down and sleep well!
The first thing to do when you go into the wilderness is to have with them a quart of water for every hour you're in the outback, dehydration is the greatest danger!
During the morning, as the trip is very long, we stopped three or four times to buy water and have breakfast, but above all to break the time on the minibus!
The Australian desert has nothing similar with respect to our conception of desert, it is an infinite set of bushes and small green plants, sprouting from the soil a reddish color of brown, the color of the ground varies depending on the sunlight!
Here we are finally at the first stage of the tour: Kings Canyon. Watarrka, this is the Aboriginal name, and is the name of the homonymous national park site around the canyon.
The path ahead is of Corca 3 kilometers, to discover the wonderful nature of the outback. The first walk about the perimeter of the canyon, then move on to climb it.
The landscape is incredible, like being inside a rainforest surrounded by red rocks giganteste to dominate the skyline.
This canyon, unlike the Grand Canyon is different backgrounds, in this If you are not only weathering of rocks but the rocks themselves, having been eroded and have formed an arch below them, collapse, creating a small valley between them.
Continuing along the path, the guide will show you the types of vegetation within the canyon.
After the walk we expected to climb, the situation was at the foot of the canyon 42 ° and 54 ° in the "top".
Four of us decided to climb the canyon (including myself), others attracted by the air conditioning back in the minibus, the route is steep but short, only 20 minutes. During the climb, given the temperature, the feeling is three times as much sweat, but once on top you can enjoy The views are incredible: everything around me is an endless stretch of green with red spots, totally flat to the horizon! 
Once the tour starts in the Kings Canyon, Uluru target, as usual, before reaching the destination, we stop for a quick lunch and a refreshing swim in the pool at the resort near Watarrka.
Back on the minibus, after about two hours away and in the middle of sleep, we hear a noise from the engine, followed by a white cloud, air conditioning ... Goodbye!
is finally on the horizon like a rock formation in Uluru, but to the astonishment of the crew, the guide tells us that there is Ayers Rock (Uluru the English name), but it is the mountain of Mount Connor or forgotten! This ranges is two hours from Ayers Rock is a mountain and layered with training, each rock layer is 100 years (if I remember correctly ...).
Past and not forgotten, Mt Connor, we arrive at Uluru in time to watch the sunset. The place where we spend the night camping is a little far from the red rock, once placed the baggage in the tents we are moving towards the viewpoint.
The show is reviewed and those seen on postcards, books and television, but this time I am there and no words! During the sunset Uluru change continuous color from deep red that we usually see, the gray, all in no time!
We return to camp and into the kitchen to keep us company, is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world: Red Spider! After dinner, we are ready to go to bed, my choice is clearly to sleep in the open and the lights went out, no choice was more apt: the sky was a collection of millions of stars visible to the naked eye and shining, including the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds, icredibile!
Here we are at Uluru morning: wake up at 4 o'clock, a small observation of the sky and my favorite constellation: the Southern Cross, then off to Ayers Rock to see the sunrise!
After half an hour of travel and check-in nell'Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, off the bus and we come to "Rock"! All around Uluru The atmosphere is strange, almost sacred, the grandeur of this rock, all its colors during and after dawn and its many facets, of meters underground!
In some parts along the way you can not take pictures because they are sites sacred to Aborigines, for the same reason it would not be possible to climb Uluru, but it is still allowed and many visitors do. On the walls of rock there are also aboriginal designs, situated near a small pond at the foot of a corner the rock.
Describe each part of Ayers Rock would be too long, you can simply say that are spaced smooth surfaces, smoothed by the wind caves and cave-like! Fantastic!
The last leg of the tour is Kata Tjuta or The Olgas, there are three different rocks, with different backgrounds than Uluru, in fact they are not monoliths.
Between a rock and the other is a small valley, the two walls give a view of the moon, Mars vision of becoming when the walls take on the color red!
In the valley flows a small river, the vegetation is green and lush, desert plants have in fact not need much water to survive, but only the strictly necessary.
Continued ... Sydney
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