I want to visit Australia. The Great Barrier Reef and Sydney seems much more attractive. You think 1 week is enough time? If you were the director of the local tourism board, please tell me why an international visitor should choose Uluru as their vacation spot?
2006-11-21 15:59:13 · 10 answers · asked by Eva 2 in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Other - Australia
You're right, it is just a 'rock' or monolith to be exact - but its the cultural connection to it that make it so special. So if you want to see a rock, look on the ground - if you want to discover 10000's years of culture and its connection to an Indigenous Australians Dreaming place, then by all means it is certainly 'worth it'.
Don't travel to just 'see' things or tick it off a list, but 'experience it'.
2006-11-22 14:45:14 · answer #1 · answered by S M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the previous response, 1 week really is not enough time for Australia!
I must admit that as an Aussie, I could not see what was 'so great' about Uluru. It seemed like a big rock in the middle of the desert.
That was until I visited Uluru last year. It really is an amazing experience. It really is huge, is in the middle of nowhere and there was definately a 'spiritual' connection. Very eerie and inspiring.
There are other places to visit near Uluru - the Olgas, Kings Canyon, Alice Springs and the Devil's Marbles.
It will be an experience that you will never forget...
2006-11-21 16:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddy, I live here and a month was not long enough to see what you want to see. Uluru is power, a power one cannot describe untill you have been there. To see the ever changing colour of a sunset at "The Rock" is majestic. You don't have to climb Uluru, the locals preferred that you didn't, but you may post a letter from the top, which from memory was a 1. 5klm walk from bottom to top. It's a long way from nowhere but worth every inch.Within the same area there is "The Olgas" and "Kings Canyon". Come on over and ave' a bloody good time. Make it at least 6 weeks and you will still not see everything. Cheers.
2006-11-21 20:37:38 · answer #3 · answered by Bagman 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would love to visit Uluru! And there are many many places in Australia to visit that are way better than the man made icons (Though the Big Coat Hanger is pretty spectacular and also worth a climb.....). Try, Olgas, Great Barrier Reef, Great Ocean Road, Ningaloo (where the whale sharks migrate up the coast each year), Horizontal Falls, Kakadu just for a few ideas. The downfall is you'd need 6 months over here to see everything due to the travelling required!! Happy choosing!!
2016-05-22 12:09:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my brother works at Uluru and flys helecopters for a scenic company up there. The photos we have seen are truely breathtaking and it is a wonder of the world in my book. I hope to get there one day.
Choose two places closer together like Brisbane and the Gold coast if you really want to enjoy yourself, otherwise you will spend more time travelling.
The great barrier is amazing we went there last year, stayed on Daydream Island for a week in the Whitsunday Islands. Great holiday! You should consider that i think. Where are you travelling from?
2006-11-22 10:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by missie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uluru is a great spot but it isn't a place to spend a week. Kata Ttjuta (Mt Olga) nearby gets less attention but is more interesting. Two or three days at most unless you are heavily into outdoors stuff. Go in the cool season - May to September.
2006-11-22 06:13:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
whoa, 1 week is so not enuff! i actually think sydney is over-rated, but as a tourist i guess u'll have to go there. shopping wise melbourne's better. i've spent 1 week in queensland alone between cairns, brisbane, port. dougalas, the great barrier reef etc.
the geography/scenery of australia is amazing and i have heard that is especially true to the journey to uluru. it's just a different type of australia. some have claimed that is 'spiritually' touching. but haven't been there myself so i wouldn't noe.
2006-11-21 16:18:36 · answer #7 · answered by poison 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put your trip off untill our summer/wet season has passed.
uluru is hot ,dry dusty and the barrier reef/cairns is hot humid and the sea is full of stinging jelly fish [can be fatal ]
plan to come down under from march to october.
2006-11-21 16:33:56 · answer #8 · answered by phalandrone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you are going to be impressed travelling 2,000 kms to see "the bush" either.
2006-11-21 20:31:33 · answer #9 · answered by Mardy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you need to ask how exciting your trip could be,,?..........DONT COME !
2006-11-21 19:55:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋