Australian Traveller

Gems of the Red Centre

Discover OTHERWORLD­LY LANDSCAPES and cultural riches on the six-day Globus Gems of the Red Centre tour from ALICE SPRINGS, set against the MacDonnell Ranges, to ULURU, the journey’s pinnacle.

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KICK OFF your Globus tour with an Indigenous-led tour of the CHASM, STANDLEY located 50 kilometres west of ‘the Alice’ on privately owned Aboriginal land. This geological corridor was carved into the quartzite rock by floods and is best viewed at noon when the midday sun paints brilliant bands of rust, ochre and blood orange on its 80-metre-high walls.

Check out the ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR

and the and have SERVICE SCHOOL OF THE AIR lunch at CO. before ALICE SPRINGS BREWING checking into your first-class room.

The tour includes seamless transport in a first-class motorcoach, that takes you towards

CANYON, where it is impossible to KINGS remain indifferen­t to the geological forces that formed Australia’s very own ‘grand canyon’.

The stunning sandstone chasm plunges 270 metres into the gorge, which, from above, resembles an emerald green ribbon threaded through the red earth.

This Globus tour is aimed at like-minded Aussies so you can expect a lot of camaraderi­e along the WALK, and at KINGS CANYON RIM the subsequent sunset drinks and special barbecue dinner.

Scheduled stops along the way also include an afternoon guided walk to

at ULURU, where you MUTITJULU WATERHOLE can wander around caves, see rock wallabies grazing amid rivers of grass and learn about bush foods.

Learn from an Anangu elder about the significan­ce of the Aboriginal rock art in the

CAVE, where multiple generation­s MUTITJULU of Anangu families have camped.

After visiting the ancient galleries, a visit to Bruce Munro’s offers an FIELD OF LIGHT altogether more contempora­ry celebratio­n of the landscape, lit up, as it is, like a giant circuit board.

Uluru is akin to a national monument, and one that tour participan­ts will worship together at sunrise when colour starts to seep over the horizon.

See the sunrise over Uluru; walk around

(the Olgas) and enjoy free time KATA TJUTA to make your own discoverie­s.

The guided holiday in Australia’s Red Centre also includes a SOUNDS OF SILENCE experience with canapes and chilled sparkling wine overlookin­g Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. By nightfall, you’ll be enjoying an unforgetta­ble dining experience and listening to an astronomer decode the southern night sky.

After wrapping up your six-day GEMS OF

TOUR, which includes five THE RED CENTRE breakfasts, one lunch and two dinners, you may extend your time in Uluru furthering your appreciati­on of our great land.

Find out more at globus.com.au

 ??  ?? CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Walking along the West MacDonnell Ranges; Bruce Munro’s Field of Light at Uluru; The mighty Kings Canyon.
CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Walking along the West MacDonnell Ranges; Bruce Munro’s Field of Light at Uluru; The mighty Kings Canyon.
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