red centre

Can you drive from Cairns to Uluru? You bet! Adventure Tours Austraila just launched a brand new 7-day overland journey: Reef to Rock.

The Australian outback is my favourite place on earth. It feels like only a few kilometres after leaving one of the state capitals you’re engulfed by a vast expanse of …

By Red Centre standards, Alice Springs is a sprawling metropolis. By any other standards in the world, it’s a small town of about 28,000 people, smack bang in the middle …

If you’re flying into Alice Springs or Yulara expecting the Four Seasons and a well-stocked minibar, you may as well turn the plane around right now. The Outback is hot, …

The Outback. Even the area’s name sounds like an admission of defeat, as if it contains so much nothingness that any attempt to put words around it is doomed to …

It’s not our fault we look this good. Blame Mother Nature.

I’ve read about it, seen photos and watched many a documentary. But after seeing Uluru through my own eyes, I finally get it. Believe the hype.

We recently sent a film crew to Uluru – Australia’s legendary Red Centre – to document the landscape, the history and the passionate Aboriginal guides who lead our tours there.

“When I was in grade four, I remember opening a book and it was like, ‘Right, Australian history here we go,” explains David ‘Thommo’ Thomson – an Australian ex-tour leader …