Off we go to Hong Kong.

At the airport awaiting our flight to Hong Kong... Then an overnight stay and off to the cold London town the next day.

Uluru after the rain.

After a night and morning of pretty heavy rain the rock looked amazing. Such gorgeous contrast the roads were covered in water in spots that only a few days ago we laughed at the "floodway" signs...Bet you didn't know that hire cars are also 4wds well our little Nissan pulsar is a trooper. Could also be described as a boat but we won't tell the hire company about that. Also finding it hard to believe that is way colder here in the middle of Australia than in Sydney and the thing that makes it funnier is that it's by about 16 degrees....

Kata Tjuta

Sunrise flights were booked to fly over Uluru and Kata Tjuta (The Olga's) this morning but because of storm activity around them both the pilot made the call not to fly..So a very early morning for nothing really. We came back to the hotel and had breakfast and decided that we would chase waterfalls. They had a fair bit of rain at the rock. We certainly weren't disappointed it was just gorgeous. Cool because of the rain and a lovely breeze...We left there and headed to Kata Tjuta we did the first walk into the gorge still cool but with a billion flies coming along for the ride. Next walk was more challenging it had heated up and the humidity was terrible. We only did the 2.2km walk and turned around ...All up 7.8kms of very rocky challenging walks.

Uluru

Ta Prohm (Jungle Temple)

Ta Prohm's original name was Rajavihara, meaning "monastery of the King". It was built as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. The construction of the temple is dated to 1186AD. It was abandoned in 1500 and allowed to return to the jungle.  Today many structures have been stabilised but no major restoration work has been done and many of the buildings are being strangled by 300 year old trees. 

 

This was the best known scene from Tomb Raider. 

This building is being restored and all blocks are marked and numbered.