Last day in The Flinders Ranges. It is still remarkable weather. Not too hot, just around 25C during the day. Perfect to walk and do activities. It is so different than other national parks in Australia, although there are similarities with Karijini National Park in Western Australia. The gorges are there more spectacular, there is actual [...]
Wilpena Pound is a 80 square km natural basin, a sunken elliptical valley ringed by gnarled ridges of rock. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s a meteorite crater. If you view the Wilpena Pound from above you can see why the Adnyamathanha people believed the Pound to be the joined bodies of two akurra (giant [...]
The Flinders Ranges are an ancient mountain range, once higher than the Himalayas ! The colours of the landscape are remarkable: as the day passes, the mountains change from soft green mornings to midday brown and ochre red sunsets. Before the Europeans arrived, the Flinders were well known by the Adnyamathanha people for their medicinal and [...]
Welcome to South Australia ! We cross the border just after 09h00, half an hour after we left Broken Hill. Apart from a sign and a ‘border cafe’, there is nothing but outback. Further west, it keeps empty on the road with hardly any traffic to the Flinders Ranges. January is usually not tourist season for the Flinders as it [...]
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