With our German friends Anna and Boris and with Paul's brother
Fiacre, we traveled from Canberra to Darwin - a 5000km trip - through the Australian desert. We're now in Darwin for our last day in Australia.
We've been lucky to walk in the
Wilpena Pound in the
Flinders Ranges. We slept in an underground camping in Cooper
Pedy. Then watched the sunset and sunrise - with breakfast - at
Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Every night, we camped in road houses or in the bush along the Stuart Highway, we took a shower only every 2 or 3 days. After the heat of the day and the dust of the desert, we were very pleased to swim in the clear
Mataranka springs. Then we headed of to the
Kakadu National park were we camped at the base of the
Gunlom falls, were we enjoyed swimming in pure water, in a beautiful scenery. An aboriginal women told us dreaming stories, stories simple but somewhat
shoking of dreaming ancestors, the
powerful beings that created the features of the land and were able to change themselves into any animal. We went to a river cruise to watch the crocodiles. Then we left
Fiacre on a bus to Darwin at the
Kakadu village centre. And went to
Lichtfield National park, were we camped near a creek. There are only 8 camping spot, separated by 150 m and spread along the river. We had a
swiming hole for ourselves. We cooked eggs on a camp fire and boiled tea with water from the river. We jumped and jumped and jumped again in the
swimming hole, and we got a massage from the small waterfalls. For this enchanted place alone, I think it is worth coming back to Australia.