The 3,800km / 2350mile route from Adelaide to Darwin via Uluru is one of the world’s great roadtrips. You have the world-class destinations of Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuta (the Olgas), the Kings Canyon, Kakadu National Park and the Barossa Wine region, but the real highlight is the sheer isolation and feeling of adventure of the trip as you drive through some of the most desolate places in the world and that bright red sand centre that lets you know you’re right in the centre of the continent
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Hiking and swimming in the rock pools of Kakadu National Park
Kakadu is the highlight of the top half of Australia’s Northern Territory. A vast national park where the combination of scorching dry seasons and flooded wet seasons have created sharp rock formations and billabongs that attract a variety of wildlife and make it feel like the definition of what you have in mind when you think of Australian Wilderness. In addition, its one of the best places in the country to experience the traditional Aboriginal way of life with its ancient rock art
Only a brief travel entry on this occasion as we only had a day in this wonderful place, but is to head out to one of the many hikes that finish with a refreshing swim in the rock pools and views across the national park. Motorcar Falls was in particular beautiful