(2015/03/06) … again, the alarm clock woke us up at 5am for the sunset. Only Tobi and me drove to the sunset viewing point, all others to the sunrise. Trying to explain that we wanna see the sun rising beside/behind, failed. This time was a bit better prepared with my cameras and got the first acceptable records. Again it was really windy, and my iPhone wasn’t prober mounted so it was a bit waggly. Here they are:
As you could already imagine, it was totally worth to watch the sunrise. It was even better, just three other persons where on this sunset spot for the sunrise, where on the day before it was crowded. While my devices was recording the time elapse, Tobi took some awesome pictures (I don’t know how often i should say thanks to him for the pictures). After the breakfast i took a short nap, to recover some lack of sleep, where the others of us hopped on the bikes an drove to the Kata Tjuta (Olgas). Sadly i forgot my ticket for the entrance to the National Park in the car, so i had to wait until it was back. At least i had the chance to drive around the Uluru before i walked around it. The Kata Tjuta mountains are saved up for my next visit, somewhen. 🙂
I already heard in advance, that to climb up the Uluru is prohibited because it’s a religious places for the Aborigines. It was more astonished that this was not totally true. Depending on the weather conditions, the gates are open and it is not prohibited to climb, but enough signs and info walls say, that you should not climb and respect the place. When i was there, the gates where open and a lot of people tried to get up the Uluru. Luckily the temperatures where hot enough, so almost all of them returned (of course they where not prepared enough…slippers, no water…) back. Even some of our group was up there and i asked why they did that. The answer was simple, because the gates are open and if they want that nobody should get up there, then they always should prohibit it, instead of heaving this loose rules that it’s open under some conditions but applying to peoples respect not to do it. I did and do respect others religious objects, so i had no thought about doing it.
Walking around it wasn’t easy at all, the temperatures, the amount of annoying flies and of course the water. 2L water in my camelback where gone and i did the walk around in 2:10 hours. I just came back o the campground in time, where Tobi picked me up for his sunset tour. To get some more practise and the nature gives an awesome background we moved to the sunrise viewing point for sunset. Nice, the clouds annoyed a bit but still got some good pictures….