Has anyone driven from Sydney to Perth having touched Ayers Rock. I would like to know about the experience.
2007-08-29 21:50:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Australia ➔ Sydney
Both answers before were right. The distances are very large.
It would take you a few weeks if you don't want to get into any stress. Why don't you fly the larger distances? Get a car in Alice Springs and do the driving down to Uluru. This might take you about 5 hours to drive if you don't want to see anything else you're passing. But if you want to see Western McDonnell Ranges as well and its gorges, then on Mereenie loop to Kings Canyon and then to Uluru would make a great trip. I did this and it was worth every second!
And then fly to Perth. Get another car and drive along the west coast. Did this too.
Only if you have plenty of time (let's say 6 months or so) you'd drive all the ways.
Another option would be: Take the Indian Pacific train from Sydney to Perth, then fly to Yulara (Uluru airport), or get off this train in Adelaide already and change into the Ghan train to Alice Springs and take a car to Uluru and then a plane to Perth. There are many varieties but check out before that you don't fly or drive a direction twice.
2007-08-30 05:08:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sydney to Uluru (No longer called Ayers Rock) is a distance of approximately 2793km. The distance from Uluru to Perth is more than 3500km
That's a heck of a trip to touch a rock.
2007-08-30 02:45:34 · answer #2 · answered by Kella G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sydney to Perth AND stopped at Uluru? NOW, that's what I call a DETOUR!!!
Not that I am saying no one has done it. But I don't think too many people who were actually driving FROM Sydney TO Perth would take a detour that far to go to Uluru. Australia is a BIG place you know!
Get a map of Australia and see where the three places are and you will see what I mean.
2007-08-30 00:57:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I was going to do a trip like that, I would try not to duplicate any of it so I would start by driving north from Sydney up the coast to Townsville with a diversion to Cairns. Then west through Charters Towers and Mt Isa to Tennant Creek and then south to Alice Springs. From Alice Springs have a diversion to Uluru then south to Port Augusta and then west to Perth. It will take you a few weeks and be about 10,000km.
If you have a big and reliable four wheel drive, the adventurous option would be northwest from Sydney to Bourke then west to Wanaaring and Tibooburra and Cameron Corner then the Strzlecki Track to Lyndhurst and Marree then the Oodnadatta Track to Oodnadatta and on to the Stuart Highway at Marla. You then get a luxurious drive on bitumen from Marla to Uluru. From Uluru head west along the Gunbarrel Highway to Giles Weather Station then Leonora, Kalgoorlie and Perth. It would be a great trip. Take plenty of fuel, water and spare parts.
2007-08-30 12:35:11 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget that Uluru is now an alcohol free zone!
2007-08-30 22:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hire a 4wd (or buy a good one yourself), go up to willuna, and take the gunbarrel highway from there. say hi to my friends at carnegie, buy a t shirt at warburton (that seems to impress people a lot) and off you go to uluru. and you will find, like i did, that the trip through the desert is beautiful, remote and great, and then to arrive at the crowds at kata tjuta and uluru is a downer...
2016-04-02 07:03:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋