Our Blog
Visit this page often to hear yarns about life at Pyndan Camel Tracks, about the beauty of Central Australia, camel stories, local art and culture.
Spinifex
Spinifex grass is native to Australia. True Spinifex only grows in the coastal sand dunes of Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Spinifex is the dominant grass of arid and semi-arid grasslands, across the driest parts of Australia. The iconic spiky spinifex...
Ride a camel to see the birds!
We are surrounded with abundant birdlife here in the Alice Springs (Mpantwe) region of central Australia. When you take a camel tour you travel very quietly, so you are very likely to see and hear many of the birds that live in our beautiful White...
Camel Rides Australia
There are quite a few camel farms where you can experience a camel ride in Australia. Did you know that camels aren’t originally from Australia? Find out more about camel rides and Camel Tours Alice Springs. Why were camels imported to Australia? During the 1860s as...
Meet our friends, the Babblers
At Pyndan Camel Tracks and on your camel tours you will most likely hear the babblers before you see them – they are chatty, sociable and sometimes frankly hilarious birds. They can be seen in small groups, hopping around to check out food on the ground, and...
Can’t pronounce Ptilotus?
Call them mulla mullas, fox-tails or pussytails. Ptilotus is pronounced tile-ote-us. It is an indigenous flowering plant you will find in the drier and desert regions of Australia. Mulla-mullas, fox-tails and pussy-tails all belong to the ptilotus genus. The...
Weaving the pages of history for Central Australia
The last camel trainIn the Year 2002 to mark the Year of the Outback, a train of camels and their cameleers re-enacted the last camel train delivery of mail from Oodnadatta to Alice Springs. As a teenager Chansey Paech alongside his grandfather, Peter Ross, journeyed...
You are visiting Arrernte country
Aboriginal people have lived in Australia forever. The movement of human population into what is now the Australian continent has been dated to over 50,000 years ago, which is at the dawn of human history given that modern human populations only moved out of Africa...
Did you know this about camel lips?
Have you looked into a camel's mouth? Camels have really thick big lips. Their top lip is split in two so that they can graze and eat their food more effectively. They can eat the thorniest plants without injuring their tough lips. The camel has a large mouth and 34...
We’ve got the globally-recognised Safe Travels Stamp
We're travel safety! We've been recognised with a G L O B A L 'safe travels stamp'. Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) has aligned with the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) to become a lead agency with authority to issue Australian tourism businesses...
COVID Ready business recognition
We have been recognised for being COVID Ready by the National COVID-19 Commission. The COVID Ready Badge identifies our business as a COVID Ready business and represents that we are currently operating inline with the National COVID-19 Commission (NCC) COVIDsafe...
Tourism Trade Checklist Badge
We're shouting to the world! We have been recognised as trade compliant within the tourism industry! The Tourism Trade Checklist Badge identifies our business as part of Australia's trusted Tourism Trade Checklist and represents business trade compliance within the...
2020 has been like an outback camel race
Pyndan Camel Tracks follows all government guidelines and recommended procedures for the safety of our guests and everyone in our outback town in the heart of Australia. As 2020 has been like an outback camel race with changing rules and an ignored finish line, we...