"Adventures in the Outback: Part I" Katelin's photos around Alice Springs, Australia

A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Alice Springs, Australia by TravelPod blogger Katelin titled "Adventures in the Outback: Part I" Katelin's travel blog entry: "i just got back from an amazing 4 days in the Australian Outback. i almost wasn't going to go, but i happened to find some cheap flights through an online Qantas promotion and that pretty much made my mind up for me. i really didn't want to leave Australia without going to "The Red Centre" as the area is called. i flew from Cairns into the Red Centre "capital" of Alice Springs and before we had even landed you could see the land changing below. i was lucky to have been assigned a window seat and i took some neat pics out of the airplane window of the red desert below us (the Simpson Desert, i think?) and i realized that once in Alice, it will be the furthest away from the ocean that i will have ever been. freaky! i have never been to a desert or even a classified "arid region" for that matter, and i was most excited to say the least. as soon as we stepped off the plane and walked from the tarmac to the terminal you could see how extremely dry everything was. i was told there hadn't been rain since november. sand. everything was sand. barely any grass....well, not green grass anyways. the colors of the huge MacDonnell Ranges were reddish/brown/tan mixed with the orange/yellow of the ground sediments to make a surprizingly beautiful scene, especially at sunset. my plane landed around 1 pm and i ...