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<\/a>Image c\/o Niklas Morberg, Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n
Fortunately, everyone around me was acting somewhat similarly. I turned to my companions and simply gaped at them and turned back. I was incapable of finding the right words and I knew my feeble \u2018wow\u2019 just didn\u2019t cut it. But they were in a similar predicament and we soon grinned at each other helplessly, inebriated by the beauty of it. Even now I can\u2019t think of a word that can fully do Uluru justice.<\/p>\n
Also known as Ayers Rock, Uluru is arguably Australia\u2019s biggest tourist draw card, and now I know why. Over the years I\u2019ve accidentally seen parts of Australia (you know, when friends from overseas visit and you travel somewhere with them). And while I\u2019ve loved everywhere I\u2019ve been, whenever I wanted to travel I went as far away as my budget and timeframe allowed me. But Uluru has changed that.<\/p>\n
I get it now. I get the ridiculous clinging to the myth of our Outback heritage that Australians perpetrate yet have no experience of. I even get the Crocodile Dundee clich\u00e9. It\u2019s because we want it to be true. Hell, I want it to be true, simply because the Australian Outback is so damn incredible and I don\u2019t want to lose the feeling I felt when I stood under an immense sky watching a ginormous rock glow red in such a way that it united every person watching it in giddy reverie.<\/p>\n
And it didn\u2019t matter from what angle or at what time of day I was there, the rock hypnotised me. Every crack and crevice, every twisted tree casting a shadow, every mark and artwork that linked immense stretches of time to the now \u2013 at every turn this rock\u2019s sacredness was palpable.<\/p>\n
And Uluru was just the beginning. Kata Tjuta, Uluru\u2019s neigbour, with its bulbous silhouette and Valley of the Wind walk (where you feel like you\u2019re walking between worlds), is equally as compelling though in an intriguingly distinct way. Even the only accommodation for hundreds of kilometres (catering to every type of tourist) is strangely relaxed and becoming \u2013 a true testament to the beatific nature of the area.<\/p>\n
Where I once only looked overseas for an adventure into the unknown, I am now looking to the rest of outback Australia with new eyes and a fluttering heart.<\/p>\n