"Ayres Rock, The Olgas and Kings Canyon" Carlav's photos around Alice Springs, Australia

A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Alice Springs, Australia by TravelPod blogger Carlav titled "Ayres Rock, The Olgas and Kings Canyon" Carlav's travel blog entry: "Hi Everyone, Another update, hope you're not getting bored yet.......... We flew into Alice Springs on the 21st March. I was expecting a small town with 1 bar, one hostel, 1 shop, lots of tumble weed and loads of aborigines! So i was surprised to find that Alice is actually quite a built up town although there was a strange feel about the place and groups of aborigines did tend to gather on the greens drinking! We only stayed in Alice for 2 nights, one before we left for our camping trip (2 nights, 3days) and one after. The one before was spent packing our rucksacks and having an early night ready for our 6am pick up the next day. The next day our tour guide Vicky picked us up and we set off for Ayres Rock, stopping at a camel farm on the way (in Australia you're more likely to see a wild camel than a kangaroo!) We arrived at lunchtime, and walked 9km round the majority of the base (total 9.4km). We then went to a lookout near our camp to watch the sunset - which we all found a bit disappointing, as apparently you can only see the rock change colour about 20 days of the year, not sure if this true or our tour guide was making excuses for taking us to a bad lookout!! We were quite disappointed when we got to our campsite as it was a bit like Butlins, with shower and toilet blocks and we could ...