EXPLORING EAST TO WEST

Australia is home to some truly spectacular locations, places like Cape York, the Kimberley, the Victorian High Country and the Simpson Desert. As travellers, we like to find the places to which not many other people venture. So, for us it was a no-brainer to head straight into the thick of it amid the MacDonnell Ranges that surround the red dirt city of Alice Springs.

EAST MACDONNELL RANGES

The East MacDonnell Ranges is a place many people skip, due to a misapprehension that the western side is better. Our family recently proved otherwise.

We started at the Emily and Jesse Gaps, both home to some of the world’s most fantastic rock art, including the Caterpillar Dreamtime story of how Alice Springs was disgorged into being by the Gods. We then continued to the mind-blowing, 800 million-year-old Corroboree Rock, a sacred men’s site