IanYates

Alice and Sydney

Posted by IanYates | 27th July 2009

So, we arrive in Alice after a 50 minute flight (there was a schoolkid on board - sure beats the bus, I suppose) where we were still fed and then spend two hours waiting for the free hostel bus to leave...
Our hostel private twin turned out to be one of the caravans parked in their grounds, which was pretty cool (as in good AND cold).

We our had two days in Alice and their were far more things to fit in than we'd originally realised. Although all backpackers seem to use it as a place to set off from to visit Uluru, we walked around to see the Royal Flying Doctors Service information centre and museum, the Telegraph Station (the reason there even is an Alice Springs town, which was at one time an orphanage), the first 'hospital' in the Centre, a couple of art galleries, and a few smaller sights.

By far my favourite was the Telegraph Station. It was a reasonably long walk out from town, but we picnic'd in the grounds before entering the station itself and being taken on a short hi

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