Day 14 – Kings Canyon and Alice Springs

Day 14 -Atop Kings Canyon
Originally uploaded by photog larry.

Kings Canyon is just that, a canyon. Reminds me of the Grand Canyon, but smaller. Either way, it was a beautiful hike. If you want some info on it, here you go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Canyon%2C_Northern_Territory

I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Here’s one. Head to flickr for the rest.



After that, was the long drive back to Alice Springs. I was a little concerned about this drive, given that it was a long drive, with no real rest stops, and Linda still feeling pretty lousy and dehydrated. But she was a trooper and hung in there, even desite the bumpy dirt road that we did our driving on.

Once in Alice, we headed to our hostel – I little joint called Annie’s Place, that was recommended in the Lonely Planet, and cleaned up. How nice. We went to dinner in town with this german dude that we had adventured with on our trip, and he told us about how he hated the French guys, and couldn’t stand to be with them any longer (he was actually booked to travel on with part of the group on an additional 2 days, but bailed out, last minute). Haha.

Alice was pretty low key, and uneventful. I was vetoed on the Alice Springs Casino (which likely would have been hugely lame anyways), and we spent the rest of our time repacking, and cleaning laundry to get ready for our flight the next day. Off to Queensland next!