The Walk Around Uluru...

Again, at some very early hour one morning, we arrived at Uluru intent on climbing the rock.
The locals basically discourage you from climbing the rock, but you can climb it if you want to, depending on weather situations. There are many reasons that can be heard for why they dont want tourists climbing it, but alot stem down to people getting hurt. Mark told us around 38 people had been killed climbing the rock & alot hurt. He said its about 1 a year that die. I immediately asked if anyone had died this year ? (Stats wise, it would be nice to know) and yes they had. So statistically we should be ok ;) But as you can see in the picture it was closed as it was due to rain. Rain..., Rain... fat chance, if only it would rain to cool me down!
So we were consigned to the fact we couldnt climb it, but would walk the entire way around it. 9.5K apparently, not sure what that is in miles tho, answers on a postcard please. Mark said after the walk around it they may re-open it, if it doesnt rain.
The walk around Uluru was amazing. The rock is soo different as you wander around. When it does rain at Uluru the water pours off the sides of the rock, so you can see all these water runways as you progress around it. Something i didnt know, was that only a third of the rock is visible. Two thirds of the rock are actually under the ground. So its huge!!! As we slowly walked around the rock, the time moved on and the temperature moved up! I took loads of photo's as we walked around, being careful not to take photo's in certain area's. Certain bits your not allowed to take photo's of, as they are "Special". Not sure how they inforce this law, but if your caught you can get a very very big fine. I sneaked a few anyway ;)
When we finally finished our loop of the rock, about 2 hrs walking, we headed back to the climbing bit. The sign had now changed from "Closed due to rain", to "Closed due to temps above 36 Degrees", yup it was now over 42 degrees again. Boloks!
Ahwell we'll have to come back again, to climb it...
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