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Date uploaded: 2007-07-24
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Description: Towering 348 metres above the red desert earth in the heart of Australia's Outback, Uluru (Ayers Rock) is possibly Australia's most recognised and most visited icon. The monolith is best experienced on foot, which allows you to get up close and personal to its weathered surface and learn the significance of its sacred Aboriginal sites. A complete lap is 9 kilometres.The rock changes its hues gradually with both the arrival and departure of the sun, transforming from its rich, red ochre evening dress to its terracotta daywear, making sunrise and sunset the most popular viewing times.Join a group tour or take the scenic Red Centre Way tourist drive from Alice Springs, but be sure to stop at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre.
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Root Ace@IagoIake1 Mate - if you think America has the worlds best beer, you need a serious trip down under. And I think the Chinese might want to discuss gunpowder with you too. But come on down - our beer is best by a country mile.
lagolake1
@DracoSCREENINGS lol, spare me the existential crap
IagoIake1
I wish I were an Aussie but America has the worlds best beer and the nukes. We also invented hamburgers, hot dogs, crossword puzzles, jet engines, television, the compass, gunpowder, paper money and even toilet paper. WE ROCK!!
Iagolake1
@DracoSCREENINGS Australia Rocks, I wish I was Australian!
DracoSCREENINGS
@lagolake1 You don't have to care about Australia, but that just means you don't see how beautiful and unique the places in Australia are. Uluru is a sacred site and doesn't deserve these comments on its video :D
DracoSCREENINGS
@992Pyro It doesnt matter about the population of who came or who lived here. what your seeing is what the true Australians own. Uluru the Sacred Heart of Australia... so don't freakin worry about the percentage of the population who aren't convicts. If you've ever listened to the song We Are One. it will explain the concepts of origins.
lagolake1
@992Pyro lol, whatever koala boy. i dont care enough about australia to even continue bothering to comment.
992Pyro
Its actually less then 7% now, 75% of our population today are immigrants or decandents from immigrants past 1945.
TubeostLove
Uluru was one time a very sacred place for the Aboriginal people before the English people came to Australia. Uluru is no longer a sacred place, it's a tourist attraction. And it's very sad.
libra0sydney
@Clownpwnage17@lagolake1@EmpireLS56KW being a decendant frm a convict doesnt possibly mean that their children would be criminals..a person ffrm a noble family can b criminal sometime n a person frm a criminal father can b a saint..there s no such thing as CRIME GENE, so why dont u stop talking abt that convict business n spread some love..I M NOT AN AUSSIE BUT I DONT LIKE PEOPLE SAYING THAT AUSSIES R FRM CONVICTS..also i dont like aussies to hate other races..peace
dasaadz
ammaaazziinngggggg :)
EmpireLS56KW
@Clownpwnage17 That was back around the time, when, Australia was transportation for prisons and used as a penal colony.Talk about being marooned (exile) from normal civilization. Bugger!
EmpireLS56KW
Looking at map of ( Ayers Rock) if it was just a few more hundred miles northwest it would be right smack in the middle of Australia. It’s a remarkable land formation of natural colour and scale.
Clownpwnage17
@lagolake1 Less than 20% of Australian's are decendents from convicts. How could a few thousand convicts populate the 20 or so million aussies we have now?
korgho5757
@lagolake1 convicts were usually being sentenced for stealing a cucumber from a stall and other trivial matters. or, they were thrown in prison for loitering, no job.
chride87
wierdest rock on earth
philinator71
i've climbed ayer rock !!!!and it was worth it because u can see the beautiful landscape must more!!!
wumaus
@StupidAng3l thanks
StupidAng3l
@wumaus Google "Longitude 131" and take the first website. There, you'll find a link at the bottom of the page showing a video clip of those luxury tents :)
ausdrew
@ausdrew While, like the US, Australia was initially a penal colony, the population, also like the US, was then made up of mostly Europeans. The US even put out a sign "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. ...". Of course the US also brought in up to 10 million slaves.
lagolake1
@ausdrew True enough. But the majority of Australias population are the descendents of convicts.
ausdrew
@lagolake1 USA was the first convict colony