Tall_Bird

Alice Springs

Posted by Tall_Bird | 26th February 2007

I caught the legendary Ghan from Darwin on an overnight journey to Alice Springs with a 4 hour stop at Katherine.

Katherine is a strange place. It's near enough one main street with speakers on the lampposts which play country music during the day? A big aborigine area, most of which hung out at the bottle shop, in pubs or sat on the shaded bits of grass drinking grog. The only white people I saw in the town were the people working in the pubs and shops.

The Ghan itself was empty so everyone grabbed 2 seats for themselves. I really enjoyed the journey, we went through some great landscapes and arrived in Alice Springs early on Tuesday morning.

I expected it to be more desert like, but it's pretty green. Aparently they had good rainfall over the past 2 weeks. The flies are out in force here although I have resisted the temptation of using my fly net, although quite a few people do wear them.

I had a good look around the town. It's small and modern with food and chain

Continued | Sam's Diary in Oz

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