Holiday Sights Uluru & Ayers Rock
Uluru was given its European name by a19th-century
English explorer named William Gosse who came across the Rock in 1873.
Australia - Uluru/Ayers Rock - The Aboriginal
People
Uluru is
situated in Australia’s Northern Territories - in the heart of the Outback. The
aboriginal people in this area are called Anangu. They believe their landscape
was created at the beginning of time by ancestral beings who emerged from the
void and created all living creatures as well as the formation of the desert
landscape.
Uluru is
regarded as physical evidence of the ancestors' activities during the creation
period which the Anangu call the Dreamtime. Also believed to have been formed
in the Dreamtime, this beautiful site includes many caves, waterholes, and
ancient rock paintings
While
visiting Ayers Rock it would be a shame to miss the fabulous Olgas, only 26 km
west of Uluru. Outside of the Rock this is the second major attraction in
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. The name, Kata Tjuta means ‘many heads’ because
of the more than thirty large rounded red rocks which rise out of the desert.
Map of Uluru & Ayers Rock
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