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Uluru
4 days · 8 things to do
Best time to go: May to September (the southern winter)
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Welcome
Uluru, in a few days
A sandstone monolith rising 348 metres from the red plain, 9.4 kilometres around, its surface changing colour through the day. The park has belonged to the Anangu since 1985, climbing has been banned since 2019, and everything here happens on foot around its base.
- Day by day
- D1 Day 1 2 things
- D2 Day 2 2 things
- D3 Day 3 2 things
- D4 Day 4 2 things
- Worth sorting before you go
- Words that help
- The practical page
- Packing checklist
The trip
Day by day
Map of the sights (numbers follow the suggested order). It prints with the base map.
D1
Day 1
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · The Uluru Base Walk · 2 to 3 hA flat 10.6-kilometre loop close to the rock, where the smooth shape of the photos turns into caves, water-cut grooves and rock paintings.
- Afternoon · Uluru Cultural Centre · about 1 hBuilt in 1995 in a shape recalling two ancestral snakes, it explains Tjukurpa and the 1985 handback, with Mutitjulu artists painting and selling on site.
🛏️ Where to sleep · The Lost Camel Hotel€200 a night
D2
Day 2
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · Mutitjulu Waterhole · about 30 minA permanent pool at the foot of the south face, fed by runoff from the rock, a flat kilometre from the car park.
- Afternoon · Sunrise at Talinguru Nyakunytjaku · about 1 hA viewing area on a dune south-east of the rock, opened in 2009, with Uluru and the domes of Kata Tjuta in the same view.
🛏️ Where to sleep · Emu Walk Apartments€230 a night
D3
Day 3
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · Bruce Munro's Field of Light · about 1 h 30Fifty thousand solar-powered glass stems spread over several hectares of desert, slowly changing colour after dark with Uluru behind them.
- Afternoon · Valley of the Winds, Kata Tjuta · 2 to 3 hA 7.4-kilometre loop between the conglomerate domes of Kata Tjuta, up to two lookouts and down into a sheltered valley of fig trees.
🛏️ Where to sleep · Outback Hotel€190 a night
D4
Day 4
2 things to do · at your own pace
- Morning · Walpa Gorge · about 1 hA 2.6-kilometre return walk between two of Kata Tjuta's domes; Walpa means wind in Pitjantjatjara, and the gorge funnels it.
- Afternoon · Kings Canyon and the Rim Walk free · half a dayA sandstone canyon in Watarrka National Park, about 300 kilometres from Yulara; the 6-kilometre rim loop starts up the steps of Heart Attack Hill.
🛏️ Where to sleep · The Lost Camel Hotel€200 a night
Before you go
Worth sorting before you go
📶 eSIM data
Online the moment you land, no roaming bill.
Get one · Holafly
Online the moment you land, no roaming bill.
Get one · Holafly
🛡️ Travel insurance
Health, luggage, cancellation.
Cover it · Ekta
Health, luggage, cancellation.
Cover it · Ekta
💳 Fee-free card
Pay at the real rate, with no exchange markup.
Open one · Revolut
Pay at the real rate, with no exchange markup.
Open one · Revolut
🚐 Airport transfer
A private car at a fixed price from the moment you land.
Book it · GetTransfer
A private car at a fixed price from the moment you land.
Book it · GetTransfer
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Good to know
Flavours & local habits
🍽️ Worth tasting
- Barbecue and seafood: prawns, barramundi and oysters.
- Meat pie: the national snack, eaten standing up.
- Vegemite: a salt yeast paste on toast, spread thin if you want to finish it.
- Lamingtons and pavlova, the two desserts this country argues over.
- Flat white: the coffee this corner of the world gave everyone else.
⚠️ Best avoided
- The sun is harsh: sunscreen, a hat and shade, even under cloud.
- Swim between the flags, and take the current and jellyfish warnings literally.
- Distances are enormous: plan fuel, water and how tired you will be.
- Do not feed the wildlife, and keep your distance from it.
Getting by
Words that help
🗣️ English is the main language here, so there is nothing to learn by heart.
The essentials
The practical page
CurrencyAustralian dollar (AUD)
BudgetAbout €205 a day, mid-range
Best seasonMay to September (the southern winter)
PlugI · 230V
Tap waterSafe to drink
TippingOptional, rounding up is enough
Emergency000
EntryYou need an online authorisation before you fly, applied for with a passport: eVisitor for EU and UK citizens, an ETA for US and Canadian ones, 90 days either way.
HealthNo vaccination required. Keep tetanus and polio up to date; hepatitis A is worth considering if you eat well outside the tourist trail.
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Don't forget
Packing checklist
Have a good trip.
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