I booked well in advance for the noon tour at Pyndan Camel Tracks and we arrived, as advised, half an hour before the tour started. It was easy to find the camels using the map on the brochure available at our hotel and cross referencing with the car’s GPS. The tour...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
