a creative’s guide to alice springe
What’s Alice Springs like? Incredibly vibrant and colourful. It’s very isolated but surrounded by vast and stunning desert scenery – I’ve never seen redder dirt. The traditional owners of the land are the Arrernte people and the traditional place name is Mparntwe. Alice Springs is also located at the foot of the beautiful West MacDonnell Ranges, which you can see from anywhere in town.
And what about the people? It’s a very transient town where people are always coming and going – the maximum population at any one time is around 25,000. Lots of people come through for seasonal work in community, healthcare and hospitality and may stay for a few months or a
